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McLaren F1 designer builds green city car

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:35:04 GMT - Source

Gordon Murray, the designer renowned for his F1 (Brabham and McLaren) and supercar (McLaren F1 and Mercedes SLR McLaren) creations is applying his skills to create a highly efficient city car and possibly a green supercar.His T.25 city car is still on the secret list but Murray has revealed that it could be produced in about three years in a variety of forms, priced from [...]Murray is convinced that the day of the big 4x4 SUV is passing: "In 20 years' time, we will look back and ask, 'Did we really use a two-and-a-half-ton car to collect the kids from school?'"

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