Gordon Murray, designer of the legendary McLaren F1, is up to his old tricks again with his new T.25 city car. As shown above, the seating plan for his T.25very closely mimics that of the F1 supercar. Although, early sketch plans of the T.25 show this wasn’t always the case. Now, though, the “iCentre” layout is the way forward.
Each of the six seating and packaging layouts shown are able to be configured within 30 seconds. In terms of human cargo, the T.25 has been designed to accommodate up three adults, or in geek speak, up to three “95th percentile occupants”. Marjorie Dawes‘ Fat Fighters need not apply, then.
At just 2.4m long and 1.3m wide the T.25 clearly hopes to knock the Smart Fortwo off its perch as the nifty little shopping trolley that could. Indeed, Murray has previously declared his hand saying the T.25 will be “funky, iconic and fun to drive”.
Speaking of shopping trolleys, when in single person mode Gordon Murray Design say the T.25 will be able cram in up to six trolley’s worth of goodies. Or to quantify that, there is 750 litres of cargo space.
GMD won’t build the car itself, rather it has developed an “iStream” manufacturing process and the company plans to license production to a third party. The T.25 is scheduled for launch in 2012.
GORDON MURRAY DESIGN REVEAL T.25 CITY CAR SEATING LAYOUT
Gordon Murray Design’s T.25 City Car is not only designed around a central driving position but an MPV package offering 6 internal layouts within the same vehicle, each layout being easily achieved within 30 seconds.
The T.25 City Car has been packaged to accept three 95th percentile occupants and the central driving position has been named ‘iCentre®’, although the actual concept dates back to 1966 when Gordon Murray first came up with the idea during his Mechanical Engineering studies at Durban Institute of Technology in South Africa. The three-seat configuration was put into production with the McLaren F1 and then resurrected in 1999 during the original study for Murray’s City Car – then known as Project 3.
The central driving position gives unparalleled control and visibility whilst supporting the ultra-flexible interior space. This gives the T.25 a potential market advantage over the Smart Fortwo which is purely a two-seater with a small luggage capacity. In maximum ‘shopping mode’ the T.25 can be driver only but offers 750 litres of stowage space which is equal to 6 shopping trolleys in volume!
The two pedal vehicle does not have a gear lever but instead relies on push buttons with the options of fully automatic or manual using Forward, Reverse & Neutral.
Gordon Murray Design are currently in discussions with several interested parties to move the car into production using the iStream® Manufacturing process. iStream® is a unique, innovative method of producing cars invented by Gordon Murray Design which, amongst other things, reduces the area and investment of a typical car factory by 80%.
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please don’t say the .25 stands for engine capacity?!
It’ll be interesting to see where this goes.
Have a stack with 3 people on board and it would look like a tin can full of mince meat and bone. I reckon it would take the fuzz three weeks to work out which body part belonged to who
I would buy one. At least it isn’t a 2 seater.