Gordon Murray Motors

Gordon Murray has announced an "accessible" little brother for his extraordinary T.50 supercar. The new T.33 ditches some of the crazier details of the T.50, but retains that awe-inspiring Cosworth V12, even if its banshee shriek stops at 11,100 rpm.

Gordon Murray's T.50, with its record-smashing Cosworth V12 and fan-forced aerodynamics, is a fascinating car. And if you thought Murray was going to build it and not take it racing, you're nuts. There's a race version coming, and it's even nuttier.

The supercar of the year – perhaps indeed the decade, early though it is – has finally fully launched, and we've now got a trove of images of the first car that Formula One/McLaren F1 design genius Gordon Murray says he's truly 100 percent happy with.

It's one of the toughest engine assignments Cosworth has ever been given. For example, the T.50's 654-horsepower, 3.9-liter, naturally aspirated V12 has to rev from idle to its record-breaking 12,100 rpm redline in just three tenths of a second.

The 39.-liter V12 in the upcoming Gordon Murray T.50 aims to be "the highest-revving, highest power density, lightest and fastest-responding naturally aspirated V12 ever made for a road car." Here's a quarter of it on a dyno, screaming its head off.

It takes a lot to stand out in today's crowded super/hyper/uber/mega car market, but famed F1 designer Gordon Murray has found several ways to make his upcoming T.50 supercar a true contender without bothering to chase speed or power records.

The man behind the magnificent McLaren F1 is starting up a new company to produce something even more lightweight and extreme than his most famous creation. The 980-kg Gordon Murray Motors T.50 will begin deliveries in 2020 at a price around US$2.2 million.