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Gordon Murray’s ‘new age’ T25 city car project, the rule-changing drive towards super-efficient transport that has been the former F1 designer’s obsession for 15 years, has been officially offered to franchisees for the first time this week. More than a dozen international companies have already signified their interest.

“Most of our potential clients are large, successful businesses with strong brands, but only a minority are established car manufacturers,” said Murray, “and we’re quite ...Read the full article

Looks good. The only thing that I'm not sure about is the safety. How safe is this going to be in today's traffic? Will it be like the G-Wiz in a crash?

I love small cars! We're about to become a 2 smart household. These teaser shots are looking good also!

I can't imagine gordon murray would design it without thinking about safety. Safety sells these days, so i am sure everything has been thought of. I would expect at least 4 star euro ncap rating would have been its goal, like the smart

superstevie:

I can't imagine gordon murray would design it without thinking about safety. Safety sells these days, so i am sure everything has been thought of. I would expect at least 4 star euro ncap rating would have been its goal, like the smart

Yes, that's what I thought - it just looks so little in these teaser shots. But then, I like little cars. It reminds me for some reason of the little Peel P50 that was on Top Gear last year, but obviously bigger and safer. If it's safe (as you say - hopefully 4 star NCAP), economical, very cheap to run and cheap to buy (it should be all these things), then it will be a very, very appealing car. Can't wait to see it when it's properly revealed.

hmm - if you look at the third pic and magnify, you can see a blue car being crash tested.

the rear overhang is really short so I suspect this might be the T25 or at least a mule of it. if it is the T25, it looks pretty inoffensive.

on second thought, the front of the blue car is quite steeply raked, something the T25 won't have in order to max internal space.

oh well... nearly!

"smaller, more frugal, more space-efficient and easier to build if drivers are to preserve today’s ability to drive anywhere at will."

I think the horse has rather bolted there. 
 

 I think this is the first car that I am genuinely excited about seeing in ages.

slackboy:

I think this is the first car that I am genuinely excited about seeing in ages.

 

I agree. I can't remember the last car that offered the motorist something genuinely different, innovative and well executed. For example, the Smart for-two's packaging is flawed and the Toyota iQ doesn't do much that an Issigonis Mini doesn't do, apart from crash rather better. The T25 had better "work", but as it is a Murray brain-child, I have high hopes for it. Even though these things aren't strictly necessary for the T25, I hope that it will be fun to drive, and have reasonable acceleration. I look forward to finding out more about it.

I can't wait to see this. Some genuinely radical thinking is long overdue. I hope that the economic climate does not harm the prospects of the T25 becoming a production reality.

Interesting little car.

What Gordon Murray has succeeded in doing is taking a clean sheet and throwing away all the preconceived principles behind designing and building the car.

Could we be seeing a real spiritual successor to the original Mini?

Nice teaser shot of Mr Murray picking his nose... 

I've been tracking this for months so think it odd that they are releasing it so suddenly!