RE: Murray T.50 confirmed as lightest hypercar ever
Discussion
Sam.M said:
shalmaneser said:
I always thought the nugget about the lfa must have been bullst, a stepper motor can do well in excess of 270 degrees of movement in under 0.3 seconds.
I always thought it sounded like a Clarksonism, ie sounds good but likely untrue.Anyway, I've just watched the Harry's Garage video of this..... What a masterpiece.
shalmaneser said:
For those following along at home
I did have to chuckle at the preamble - since when has an industrial unit just outside Guildford been an "ultra-secure facility" or however Franchitti described it? That plus the security guard from the local am-dram society checking his earpiece and clipboard...
The launch proper was great, however.
Europa1 said:
shalmaneser said:
For those following along at home
I did have to chuckle at the preamble - since when has an industrial unit just outside Guildford been an "ultra-secure facility" or however Franchitti described it? That plus the security guard from the local am-dram society checking his earpiece and clipboard...
The launch proper was great, however.
I'm really not a hyper/supercar fan but I'm drinking the kool-aid on this one. It's what I'd do if I had the cash I reckon.
shalmaneser said:
That was cheesy but once they got into the meat of it I enjoyed it very much.
The whole Dario Franchitti video was laughably, nauseatingly cheesy and sycophantic.Harry's Garage set a much better tone, got much more out of Murray, and gave much better technical content.
Clearly a deeply impressive machine with engineering genius abound but it did feel a bit like harking back to the F1 everywhere; sounded to me 'if they are now £xx millions to buy, here car hoarders is son of F1 for a mere £2.xm's'
I'd sooner have an AM Valkyrie for an out there hypercar..
Max_Torque said:
BigChiefmuffinAgain said:
It just seems such a leap forward from what everyone else has managed delivered by a very small team on a low budget.
To large degree, it's actually a leap backwards. It's a pretty simple car, and is resolutely "old skool" putting low mass and driver enjoyment ahead of other considerations. Yes, it'll be nicely engineered (like the old F1) but today in 2020, nothing i can see is actually anything "new"?And by gum do I love it.... This is what Mclaren should have been...
I love it, I love it, I love it.... Oh and did I tell you that I LOVE IT!!!
Jezza30 said:
Clearly a deeply impressive machine with engineering genius abound but it did feel a bit like harking back to the F1 everywhere; sounded to me 'if they are now £xx millions to buy, here car hoarders is son of F1 for a mere £2.xm's'
I'd sooner have an AM Valkyrie for an out there hypercar..
I'd sooner have an AM Valkyrie for an out there hypercar..
It's an impressively engineered machine, but it does rather feel like F1b rather than moving the game forward in any fundamental way.
Sam.M said:
epom said:
It could be terrible.... just saying.
I'm sure it'll be bloody awful. Which is why, being the magnanimous and self sacrificing chap that I am, I'll suffer to accept any that the owners are just so disappointed in they can't bear to look at them ever again.
I'll take that pain for them.
hyphen said:
epom said:
It could be terrible.... just saying.
But we are talking probabilities based on the information we already know.Probability it may not be as good as 'expected' will always be significant. But probability of it being 'terrible' are low.
Sam.M said:
hyphen said:
epom said:
It could be terrible.... just saying.
But we are talking probabilities based on the information we already know.Probability it may not be as good as 'expected' will always be significant. But probability of it being 'terrible' are low.
But as a drivers car, I don't remember many journalists being quite so blown away with the feel, feedback and particularly the unassisted brakes. I think things have changed now as compared to modern cars, the F1 would be sensory overload and the performance is still monstrous even today, but back when the F40 was around, I got the impression most would have picked the Ferrari as the driver's car for a day's fun in the country. I think that with the passage of time, the F40 has kept that reputation but the F1's has grown.
So it all depends how well GM's idea of a driver's car translates to everyone else's.
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