Gordon Murray’s GMA T.33 supercar revealed

Gordon Murray Automotive has revealed the second model in its supercar arsenal: the 2024 GMA T.33.

Revealed overnight following an earlier teaser campaign, the GMA T.33 was purportedly conceived as the friendlier, more driveable option within the GMA supercar ranks.

It is strictly limited to 100 examples and first deliveries are set to commence from early 2024, with each car priced at a cool $A2.61 million before taxes.

Described as the ultimate supercar to own “if you had to have only one”, the T.33 is a two-seat, mid-engined model that joins the hard-core, single-seat GMA T.50 first revealed in 2021 – a vehicle claimed to be a successor to Gordon Murray’s best-known project, the McLaren F1.

The T.33 trades the active ‘ground effect’ aerodynamics system on the T.50 – achieved using a 48-volt rear-mounted fan that electrically sucks the car to the road – for a passive system that employs inlet channels underneath the floor plus a large rear diffuser.

Murray says the technology freed the design team from fitting the large wings, skirts or vents commensurate with most modern supercars – with the exception of an active rear spoiler that deploys depending on speed or driver preference.

Weighing only 1090kg, the T.30 is some 100kg heavier than the more focussed T.50.

It utilises foundationally the same Cosworth-developed 3.9-litre naturally-aspirated V12 engine as the T.50 as well, albeit configured with a 1000rpm-lower rev limit (at a still-lofty 11,100rpm) and lowered torque curve to improve driveability.

A six-speed manual transmission and limited-slip differential are also standard fitment, with the option to fit a paddle-shift transmission.

Final outputs are listed at 452kW at 10,500rpm and 451Nm at 9000rpm, with 75 per cent of pulling power available from 2500rpm.

“With the T.33, our second all-new car, we gave ourselves a very clear brief: to create another timeless design,” said Murray.

“It has been designed and engineered to the same exacting standards as our T.50, with the same emphasis on driver focus, performance, lightweight and superlative, pure design, but the outcome is a very different motor car.

“This is a car where comfort, effortless performance and day to day usability are even more front and centre in its character.”

The new model is built on a “newly-developed” carbon and aluminium super-lightweight architecture that is wrapped in a carbon-fibre body. The T.33 is suspended by double wishbones fore and aft, in conjunction with coil springs over aluminium alloy dampers.

Hydraulically-assisted steering is said to impart “class-leading levels of feel and feedback”, while Brembo carbon ceramic discs are clamped by six-piston front callipers and four-piston rear callipers.

The T.33 riders on staggered forged aluminium wheels wrapped in sticky Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S rubber (235/35 R19 front, 295/30 R20 rear).

The T.33 foregoes all of the touch-screen trickery of new supercars for a strictly analogue and driver-focussed set-up. Indicators are thumb-operated via buttons on the carbon-fibre steering wheel, all the main controls are analogue and rotary, and the rev-counter comes courtesy of a flood-lit, 120mm diameter tacho.

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are fitted standard, says Murray, but have been introduced in a way that doesn’t dilute the driving experience.

Murray says the T.33 follows the same seven key principles that help define all GMA models: driving perfection, exclusivity, lightweight, premium, engineering art, a return to beauty and a personalised customer journey.