Gordon Murray Automotive’s rule-breaking T.50 has been named Hypercar of the Yr on the TopGear.com Awards 2023. One of many automotive business’s most coveted accolades, the TopGear.com Hypercar of the Yr award offers final proof that Professor Gordon Murray CBE and his crew have succeeded of their mission to design and engineer the purest, lightest, and most driver-centric automobile ever.

The T.50’s unprecedented mixture of the world’s lightest, highest revving, most power-dense naturally aspirated engine – the three.9-litre GMA V12 envisaged by Gordon and engineered by Cosworth – plus essentially the most superior and efficient aerodynamics ever seen on a street automobile, redefines the worldwide supercar and hypercar sectors. Earlier than saying the ‘Hypercar of the Yr’ title, Prime Gear not too long ago gave the T.50 a uncommon 10/10 overview and proclaimed the 997kg three-seater “The most effective driver’s automobile on the planet.”

Professor Gordon Murray, CBE “From the inception of the T.50 venture, my crew’s unwavering dedication was to create a automobile that will ship a completely immersive driving expertise the like of which the world had not seen earlier than. From the Cosworth GMA V12 engine, which revs to 12,100rpm, to the 400mm rear-mounted fan, which boosts floor impact by fifty %, no element was spared in pursuit of our objective. Receiving the ‘Hypercar of the Yr’ award from Prime Gear validates our mission to create the world’s biggest drivers’ automobile and represents a unprecedented second for the extremely proficient crew at GMA which has put their coronary heart, soul, and world-class expertise into this automobile.”

Ollie Marriage, Head of Automotive Testing – BBC Prime Gear, stated: “The T.50’s engineering rigor is endlessly related. There’s no flab on this 997kg three-seater and none in its considering – it’s splendidly clear-minded. How refreshing to discover a automobile that is aware of precisely what it’s for and presents itself so clearly. The T.50 is a automobile for the driving force, it doesn’t have a second function or a backup plan. It simply places the driving force smack within the middle of issues, immerses them in the complete expertise, and lets them get on with it. Sounds easy. It isn’t.”

Phillip Lee, Gordon Murray Group CEO “Prime Gear’s ‘Hypercar of the Yr’ award units the bar for efficiency throughout the worldwide automotive sector. Successful it with the T.50, particularly towards some unbelievable opposition from a number of the most established OEMs within the business, offers additional proof of Gordon Murray Automotive’s functionality to function on the chopping fringe of supercar and hypercar design and engineering and reinforces the corporate’s ambition for the longer term. I wish to use this chance to thank the crew for all their onerous work and dedication to make an achievement like this attainable.”