Gordon Murray's new car.
 

nah nah... nah nah......batman

I really like it, but obviously am never going to own one :P Hope I get to sit in one someday, maybe even drive it (is that asking for too much?). Basically a slightly more sane and analog Valkyrie.

Boundary layer suction is really clever. The claim about 10kg for the fan and all the ducts and flaps seems crazy, I want to see what they did to make that happen.

I like that they also sneakily made it a mild hybrid without saying it. 30hp 48V starter generator with push to pass lol. I'm guessing there's a small lithium titanate battery for that.

If only there were something like this with a more modest cylinder count and price tag...

Disappointed that the author credited Murray with inventing fan blown aero when Jim Hall's Chaparral predated the Brabham BT46B "fan car" by years.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsp...al-2j-history/

It's possible he came up with the idea independently on his own.... it's not like he could have just Googled it

Reading this, I immediately thought of that car:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b9/7a...8f0fa1afeb.jpg

The new version does look a "little" bit better than an old rooftop air conditioned unit now though.

wow. gotta say, im actually a fan of this design. blew me away! DIY-ing this yourself would actually be a breeze:

I thought you guys were talking about this Gordon Murray's car. Then I read "fan". Im interested to see if this thing will be legal. Blowing rocks on windscreens and all.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...UyPFzA2ympbo&s

He probably knew about it, considering who he was and what he needed to know, and how much earlier the other car had been raced. Moreover, he also developed a box style version of the BT46 which copied the other car. He may have pioneered the use for F1 or pioneered the use of a secondary set of gears tied to the motor versus using a separate motor, but his ideas appear to be mostly copied-evolutions of Hall’s ideas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46

Then there was this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hall_(racing_driver)

"Murray T.50 confirmed as lightest hypercar ever"


https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-...car-ever/42496

Boundary layer suction and the suction fan are very different though...

The suction fan on the Chaparall works with low clearance side skirts to produce low static pressure under the car. That gives constant downforce.

The T50 has a normal underbody venturi and diffuser with some flaps for variable geometry, but the suction fan prevents the diffuser from stalling. You need much less fan power to achieve that, but you have speed dependent downforce just like a normal car.

Yeah, I've noticed that with mum's Yaris.




















C'mon!! That's a little bit funny isn't it?

6sp manual

Murray gets it.

...that rich car investors don't drive their cars anyways, so why not put a manual?