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Tue 13 Aug 2019

Gordon Murray Automotive select Bruce Canepa, Canepa Group Inc. as North American representative of the GMA T.50 supercar

Gordon Murray Automotive will produce the T.50 – the world’s lightest, most driver focused supercar

Automotive designer Gordon Murray has designed the ultimate analog driver’s supercar unlike anything ever created

Limited to 100 T.50 supercars worldwide

Canepa selected as the T.50 Supercar North American Representative

Canepa to handle all aspects of customer service; including importation, service/maintenance, and warranty. Canepa will also be a sales outlet for the T.50.

Scotts Valley, CA | July 25, 2019 – UK automotive designer Gordon Murray has become an iconic master of design over the past decades, from Formula One race cars to the legendary McLaren F1 road car. The announcement of Gordon Murray Automotive’s supercar, the T.50, sent a proverbial shockwave throughout the automotive community. Having consulted on the project in its early phase of concept and development, the Canepa Group has been selected as the exclusive North American representative of the T.50 Supercar.

“Cars are meant to be driven, and this may be one of the most exciting road cars ever designed. I am both honored and excited to be a part of this amazing project.” – Bruce Canepa

Canepa is an industry leader in the collector car world; including sales, restoration and motorsports. Located in Scotts Valley, California, Canepa is central to the Silicon Valley and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Experienced in premium luxury and performance vehicles, Bruce Canepa was deemed the perfect fit for Gordon Murray Automotive’s new supercar. As the sole North American representative, Canepa Group will handle all aspects of customer support for the new supercar from beginning to end for North American customers; including sales, importation, service/maintenance, and warranty. Interested parties are invited to contact Bruce Canepa at (831) 430-9940 or bruce@canepa.com regarding available build slots for the T.50.

About the T.50
The T.50 is a masterful blend of design, performance and beauty from one of the most storied automotive designers in the modern world, Gordon Murray. Built around a hand-laid carbon fiber monocoque, the T.50 is extremely lightweight even by today’s standards, weighing in at 2,160 pounds. With a bespoke 650 horsepower, Cosworth-designed 3.9-litre V12 that revs to 12,100rpm mated to a special 6-speed manual transmission, the T.50 promises to deliver one of the best driving experiences in history. Fan-assisted aerodynamics, excellent driving dynamics and the culmination of 50 years’ worth of experience together create one of the best driving cars on the planet, bar none. The T.50 marks Gordon Murray’s 50th automotive project and includes design influences from many of his previous projects. Murray says “We expect this to be the last, and the greatest ‘analogue’ supercar ever built.”

Learn more about the T.50 at www.gordonmurraydesign.com.

Gordon Murray Automotive
Gordon Murray Automotive was launched in November 2017. The T.50 supercar will be the first model manufactured by the new company. Alongside production of its own vehicles, Gordon Murray Automotive will manufacture vehicles on a low-volume basis for external customers.

Gordon Murray Automotive forms part of a new corporate organisation for the engineering group, and is positioned as a sister company to Gordon Murray Design.

Gordon Murray Design
Gordon Murray Design is a visionary design and engineering company with its headquarters in Surrey, UK. It was established in 2007 with a focus on developing an innovative and disruptive manufacturing technology trademarked iStream, and has since built a global reputation as one of the finest automotive design teams in the world.

The company’s unique approach and truly creative thinking enables Gordon Murray Design to deliver complete car programmes in a highly efficient and innovative way from concept and design, through to prototype and development for production.

Professor Gordon Murray, CBE – biography
Gordon Murray was born in Durban, South Africa in 1946 and gained a Mechanical Engineering Diploma from Natal Technical College. He designed, built and raced his own sports car (the IGM Ford) in the National Class in South Africa during 1967 and 1968.

In 1969 Gordon moved to the UK and joined the Brabham Formula One Team as Technical Director, winning two world championships (1981 and 1983) during his 17 years with the team. Gordon joined McLaren Racing as Technical Director in 1988 and three consecutive championship wins (1988, 1989 and 1990) followed. In 1990, Gordon moved away from Formula One – after 50 Grand Prix wins – to concentrate on establishing a new company for the group, McLaren Cars Limited.

The company’s first project, the F1 road car, is still regarded as one of the world’s best-engineered cars. A racing version won two world sports car championships and the Le Mans 24-hour race on its first attempt in 1995. McLaren Cars then completed several other successful projects culminating in the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren programme.

Gordon left McLaren in 2005 to set up a new company Gordon Murray Design Ltd (in 2007), of which he is Chairman and Technical Director. The innovative British company operates from Surrey, UK and aims to be the world leader in automotive design. It reverses the current industry trend for sub-contracting by having a complete in-house capability for design, prototyping and development.

In 2017, Gordon Murray Design celebrated the company’s 10-year anniversary along with that of the iStream® manufacturing process. At a special event, named ‘One Formula’ Gordon Murray also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the McLaren F1 road car entering production, and his 50th year of car design and engineering.

In May 2019, Professor Murray was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. The ceremony, held at Buckingham Palace, recognised the contributions made by Murray to the motorsport and automotive sectors over the past 50 years.

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For enquiries regarding T.50, please contact: enquiries@gordonmurrayautomotive.com.

For all media and press related enquiries, please contact our Press & PR team: t50media@gordonmurrayautomotive.com.

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10 Jul 2019, 16:56 UTC ·
by Mircea Panait

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Starting at $20,895 in the United States, the Beetle is no longer available to order. The final example of the breed – a coupe finished in Denim Blue – will be exhibited at the Volkswagen museum in Puebla. Speaking of which, the first-ever Beetle manufactured in Mexico rolled off the assembly line in 1967.
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Known as the Type 1 back when Volkswagen was nothing more than the dream of a mad man, the Beetle was redesigned from the ground up in 1997 with the introduction of the New Beetle. In other words, it was a re-bodied Golf Mk. 4 with a flower vase next to the steering wheel. Then the Volkswagen Group A5 vehicle architecture of the Golf Mk. 6 served as the building block for the current model, packing up to five cylinders and 2.5 liters of displacement.
From air cooling to liquid cooling, rear-engined to front-engined, body-on-frame to unibody, the Beetle had a long and interesting run since it was unveiled in 1938. Soon after the second war to end all wars, the factory in Wolfsburg transitioned to civilian Beetle production in 1947. As a side note, Wolfsburg was founded in 1938 by the Nazi regime to house the German automaker’s workforce.
Over the years, the Beetle has been treated to countless special editions and one-off concepts. The Barbie, Denim, and Dune come to mind, but Volkswagen doesn’t plan to revive the nameplate anytime soon. Production at the Puebla factory will be reallocated to a compact SUV tailored to North America, slotted below the seven-seat Tiguan which is called Tiguan Allspace in the Old Continent.
Even without the Beetle, the peeps at Volkswagen took inspiration from the little bug when developing the ID.3 electric hatchback. The MEB-based vehicle features an electric motor at the rear, driving the rear wheels with up to 204 PS (201 horsepower) and 310 Nm (229 pound-feet) of torque.
The I.D. Buggy concept is rumored to enter limited production in the 2020s on the MEB, and if Volkswagen proves the rumors true, then the Beetle would get a spiritual successor of sorts. The best-known buggy with Beetle underpinnings is the Meyers Manx, which was built in limited numbers in the 1960s.

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