McLaren F1 design team to roll out green car
Lightweight and with an expected pricetag of £6,000, will the fuel-efficient T25 pass the Jeremy Clarkson test?
In the boom years of the 1990s, the workshop of Gordon Murray produced the 240mph McLaren F1, one of the fastest and most coveted road cars in the world. This month, the same design team will unveil the next vehicle to roll off the Murray production line, but using a lot less fuel as it does so. While the drivers of the 106 F1 supercars that were built might struggle to travel more than a dozen miles on a gallon of petrol, the new car, dubbed the T25, can manage almost a hundred – significantly better than the most fuel-efficient cars on the market today.
Smaller than a Smart car, the new T25 is Murray's solution to city streets choked with traffic that belch out huge amounts of carbon dioxide. Lightweight and with an expected pricetag of £6,000, he hopes for an initial take up of 100,000 of the cars across Britain and mainland Europe
Source: McLaren F1 design team to roll out green car
In the boom years of the 1990s, the workshop of Gordon Murray produced the 240mph McLaren F1, one of the fastest and most coveted road cars in the world. This month, the same design team will unveil the next vehicle to roll off the Murray production line, but using a lot less fuel as it does so. While the drivers of the 106 F1 supercars that were built might struggle to travel more than a dozen miles on a gallon of petrol, the new car, dubbed the T25, can manage almost a hundred – significantly better than the most fuel-efficient cars on the market today.
Smaller than a Smart car, the new T25 is Murray's solution to city streets choked with traffic that belch out huge amounts of carbon dioxide. Lightweight and with an expected pricetag of £6,000, he hopes for an initial take up of 100,000 of the cars across Britain and mainland Europe
Source: McLaren F1 design team to roll out green car
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