Gordon Murray thinks the Cosworth GMA V12 will be one of the most iconic engines of all time. The ultra-light, ultra-compact, naturally aspirated V-12, developed by Britain's Cosworth Engineering to Murray's precise specification, will power a pure, driver-focused, lightweight three-passenger hypercar called the T.50, a car designed to be the successor to his ground-breaking McLaren F1 that rocked the 1990s.
The Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) T.50 will make its public debut on August 4. But GMA has released a wealth of detail on the extraordinary engine that will power it. We brushed the surface of the engine's magic recently, but consider this the deep dive.
Murray wanted a 12-cylinder engine for the T.50 from the outset. "To be truly remarkable, an engine needs to have the right character," he explains. "It must be highly responsive, have an amazing sound and engaging torque delivery, be free-revving and it has to be naturally aspirated. For all those reasons, the engine in the T.50 was never going to be anything other than a V-12."
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