I know this has been written about here before but the search feature wouldn't load and I don't recall any pictures...
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/gordon-murray-t-25/?utm_source=feedburner&...))
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June 28, 2010 4:36 p.m. procainestart Dork
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June 28, 2010 5:25 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
and some people think the smart is ugly
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June 28, 2010 5:45 p.m. Tommy Suddard SonDork
Where's the puke smiley?
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June 28, 2010 6:28 p.m. procainestart Dork
Tommy Suddard wrote:
Where's the puke smiley?
Don't you know someone who could hook us up with one?
I think the car cool. No, it's not pretty...
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June 28, 2010 7:12 p.m. kreb Dork
If they can hit the price point, I bet it'd be a hit. The Smart car is inferior in practically every way to a good econobox except for the compact footprint. This is inferior as well, but is cheap and sylish.
Personally, I'll hold out for the Hayabusa version
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June 28, 2010 7:29 p.m. pres589 HalfDork
I would definitely rock this over a Smart.
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June 28, 2010 9:38 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork
I would kick it!
BTW, it is spelled McLaren. As in Bruce...
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June 28, 2010 9:39 p.m. mistanfo SuperDork
Ugly, but in a good way.
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June 28, 2010 11:00 p.m. MitchellC Dork
Very cool, and I like the center driving position. Cue the Photoshop with huge box flares and wide sticky tires.
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June 28, 2010 11:14 p.m. Volksroddin Dork
looks like a Zonda had sex with a smart....
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June 29, 2010 12:15 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork
...only if it transforms into a fighting robot.
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June 29, 2010 12:51 a.m. Slyp_Dawg Reader
call me crazy, but I actually kinda like it. I wouldn't be caught dead in one for the same reason I wouldn't be caught dead in a smart car, I think they are useless little nerdmobiles that are inviting nothing but insanely huge medical bills for even the smallest of fender-benders, but it is rather interesting. if they could find some way to make the footprint a bit wider and lower the driving position a LOT (aka a baby formula car/OLD WSC/sports racer), I would jump all over it for a track car/city commuter. who knows, could be loads of fun and could be an untapped market that's just begging to be tapped. listening any small-ish car companies?
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June 29, 2010 3:38 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork
Why couldn't we have gotten this?
Smart Roadster, I luv you.
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June 29, 2010 5:51 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
Darth Vader's Smart?
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June 29, 2010 8:00 a.m. chuckles New Reader
Is that a center exhaust...about 22 caliber?
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June 29, 2010 8:12 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
Very cool car, has a space frame, canopy top, ultra light weight, low price...just two problems
It's ugly. Some different headlights would go a long way to fixing this.
It's too slow to even consider driving on the highway. A 1L engine or turbo should fix this.
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June 29, 2010 8:21 a.m. Kia_racer HalfDork
It will, in all likelihood, never make it over here.
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June 29, 2010 8:22 a.m. Buzz Killington HalfDork
i like it. also needs m0ar 'Busa.
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June 29, 2010 9:06 a.m. Jay Dork
I don't think that's ugly at all. Bizarre, yes, but it looks pretty neat in a retro-distopia-futury way. Imagine it flying around L.A. a la Blade Runner or, well, early-'90s Tokyo.
Also, that flip-up canopy is wicked cool.
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June 29, 2010 9:51 a.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork
First off it's not a McLaren. Gordon Murray left McLaren after the SLR which he didn't like, this is his own company. This is so much more than a Smart car, it's smaller, get's way way better gas mileage. Also a big part of this car is meant to be the production concept and cradle to grave low environmental impact.
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June 29, 2010 11:45 a.m. Matt B Reader
I like it, city box car stigmas be damned.
I also second the lamentation over our lack of a Smart Roadster. The wife and I rented one when we were in Germany a few years ago. I drove it from Frankfurt to the Nurburgring and had a blast. It still gets a little squirrelly at "some people's" autobahn speeds (hehe), but it was a hoot to hoon around the mountain roads. The limits weren't all that high really, but that's not really what that car's about anyway. What surprised me was the reaction from the German populace, especially the older generation. They were very curious, and almost always loved it.
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June 29, 2010 12:10 p.m. nutherjrfan Reader
there's a ton of the roadsters driven by the bad guys in Tom Cruise' new movie.
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June 29, 2010 3:29 p.m. Chris_V SuperDork
Slyp_Dawg wrote: I wouldn't be caught dead in one for the same reason I wouldn't be caught dead in a smart car, I think they are useless little nerdmobiles that are inviting nothing but insanely huge medical bills for even the smallest of fender-benders,
This is so not true it's not even funny, and I wish supposedly knowledgeable car guys would quite repeating it as though it WERE true.
In fact it's been proven not true repeatedly over the last few years.
Jay wrote:
I don't think that's ugly at all. Bizarre, yes, but it looks pretty neat in a retro-distopia-futury way. Imagine it flying around L.A. a la Blade Runner or, well, early-'90s Tokyo.
Also, that flip-up canopy is wicked cool.
While I like it, the flip up canopy is the part I think is stupid in a supposedly daily use vehicle. Surprised that it would be dreamed up in rainy 'ol England (of course, they invented convertible tops that invited the rain in, as well). With my normal car, the dash, center console, etc, doesn't get drenched in the rain from simply opening the door...
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June 29, 2010 3:35 p.m. 96DXCivic Dork
^ Esp considering that the big part of the car is the safety cell. Have you seen how F1 drivers do in wrecks? I would have no worries about that car.
