RE: Good news: GMA declares its new factory open

[ettore]

asci.white said:

Surrey has a long history of building and racing cars (you've heard of Brooklands?).

If they can, then why not?

There are lots of amazing engineers in the area so why shouldn't it be used for this... Not being rude but that's a short sighted view...

…and McLaren just down the road…

[ChrisCh86]

Honeywell said:

An amazing achievement and typical of what happens when you have one strong man with a vision and a passion for cars. Toyota being a bigger example under Akio Toyoda.

Surely it should be Sir Gordon Murray by now?

Given a lottery win I wouldn't look at anything else other than the pinnacle which is a GMA car.

Definitely a PH God.

Agreed!

You can shove your GT Porsche, a GMA T50 is definitely in my dream garage. The styling of the T33 doesn't quite work for me, but I'd still have one if I couldn't get on the list for the T50 as it'll no doubt be epic to drive.

[Frimley111R]

Twoshoe said:

I'll have one in that blue colour please (7th pic).

No. We can't both have the same colour.

[asci.white]

ettore said:

…and McLaren just down the road…

I'd already quoted them..

[Nomme de Plum]

asci.white said:

Pit Pony said:

They should put it further north in one of the powerhouses of Automotive somewhere like erm *Cofton Hacket, Speke, Lostock Hall, Erdington, Hooton, connons quay, Etwall, or lytham.st annes where labour and brown field land are cheap and plentiful. And Engineers can afford to live.

• Longbridge, Halewood, Leyland, Castle Bromwhich, Ellesmere port, Deeside, Derby and Blackpool, might be better places in my humble opinion.

Surrey has a long history of building and racing cars (you've heard of Brooklands?).

If they can, then why not?

There are lots of amazing engineers in the area so why shouldn't it be used for this... Not being rude but that's a short sighted view...

Not that far away from McLaren's head quarters in Woking either and easy access into the City. Seems an eminently sensible location for a very specialist small scale exotic sports car manufacturer. It's not like they need 1000s of factory workers. Heathrow is really close too.

[Jacobyte]

ettore said:

asci.white said:

Surrey has a long history of building and racing cars (you've heard of Brooklands?).

If they can, then why not?

There are lots of amazing engineers in the area so why shouldn't it be used for this... Not being rude but that's a short sighted view...

…and McLaren just down the road…

Tyrrell, Cooper, Benetton, Ferrari et alia also had HQ and/or satellite hubs in Surrey. There are still loads of contractors to top level motorsport in Surrey; it's booming.

[740EVTORQUES]

That’s over £200,000 for every car projected for the current ranges just for the building.

I know it’s all debt but how do the economics of a such a car company work with that scale of capital investment (vs just renting a site)?

[Earl of Petrol]

Isn’t this exactly what TVR needed?
It’s a big punt going into car manufacturing against so many established companies with very good products.

Edited by Earl of Petrol on Thursday 11th April 15:36

[Agis]

Titan2 said:

DoctorX said:

I think the car with the green bits is JKay's.

Thought it looked familiar alright.

He did a quick Instagram video of it last week I think.

Yes that is correct. It was posted to his IG page. He has a history of er strong colours both inside and out..

[W111AAM]

Looks v similar in style/colour to the new Andretti F1 facility that opened at Silverstone earlier this week!!

[Sway]

740EVTORQUES said:

That’s over £200,000 for every car projected for the current ranges just for the building.

I know it’s all debt but how do the economics of a such a car company work with that scale of capital investment (vs just renting a site)?

Was going to post pretty much exactly this.

There's clearly an unseen plan that's been leveraged to get the funding.

[Davey S2]

JJJ. said:

After the T50 & T33 I wonder what happens to GMA.

Or when Mr Murray is no longer there. He's 77 now and can't go on forever.

[JJJ.]

Davey S2 said:

JJJ. said:

After the T50 & T33 I wonder what happens to GMA.

Or when Mr Murray is no longer there. He's 77 now and can't go on forever.

Precisely. Hopefully he's got one more in him.

[Edgey1]

Shame it appears to be built on a greenfield site.

[spaximus]

It sad that we have so few like him and so many dismissive of this.

Here is a very rich man who has nothing to prove and yet at his age has got busy and designed the car got the factory built and will contribute to the economy.

We need more like him and in my opinion it is a sad that he has not been knighted, even though he was born in SA.

[BigChiefmuffinAgain]

Sway said:

740EVTORQUES said:

That’s over £200,000 for every car projected for the current ranges just for the building.

I know it’s all debt but how do the economics of a such a car company work with that scale of capital investment (vs just renting a site)?

Was going to post pretty much exactly this.

There's clearly an unseen plan that's been leveraged to get the funding.

Yes - exactly who is funding all this?

[rallycross]

Earl of Petrol said:

Isn’t this exactly what TVR needed?
It’s a big punt going into car manufacturing against so many established companies with very good products.

Edited by Earl of Petrol on Thursday 11th April 15:36

Maybe he could lease them a bit of his new factory / workshop - a corner up the back for tvr to live out its impossible dream?

I think the fact he has got this project as far as he has is incredible and a rare good news story for U.K. car building.

List of job vacancies at the Surrey facilities here

https://www.gordonmurrayrecruitment.com/vacancies/...

[Syndrome280]

4 years to spin up a facility like that. Impressive.

TVR on the other hand need a few leap years just to sort a roof.

[b0rk]

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Yes - exactly who is funding all this?

Mohr Davidow Ventures (a VC fund) where early stage investors, I don’t know they still are or have exited.
CYVN Holdings (Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund) also invested. GMG/GMA recently sold the technologies arm to CYVN too.

They’ve had investment from Horizon Europe (EC) and Innovate UK too.

[Dohnut]

Has he employed a giant (pic 6) or are the cars tiny?