GMA GMA T.50

[Bridster]

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[J.E]

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[bmwz4coupe]

Fantastic sound! What a pity it looks so tame….

 

[WBarnes]

The looks are kind of growing on me and it probably looks even better in the flesh.

 

[mihc]

It's phenomenal car, but I'm really disappointed with the way it looks. 720S on the track in front of it, looks miles better.

 

[Centurion]

It's phenomenal car, but I'm really disappointed with the way it looks. 720S on the track in front of it, looks miles better.

Traditional wing mirrors would have given the car more width and presence.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

Save for the out of proportion headlight units, I think this car's design will stand the test of time.

Then again, it ought to as it's essentially a refined take on the F1.

 

[Bridster]

It's phenomenal car, but I'm really disappointed with the way it looks. 720S on the track in front of it, looks miles better.

Speaking of the 720S, it's interesting how similar the cars are in proportions. An uninformed viewer might think that the cars were from the same manufacturer. And that's, of course, because Mclaren has borrowed a lot of things from the F1, mainly the low scuttle height, high cheekbones, the shape of the cabin and the high rear haunches. The 720S and the T.50 are sort of like distant cousins. I never especially liked the look of the 720S and I do think the T.50 actually looks better, but I can see the issue many people have with the T.50 and that being that it's not aggressive enough compared to many other supercars out there and rather simple and featureless. Which is completely deliberate, but clearly not to everyone's taste. I would also wish it had a bit more aggression - the headlights especially are way too soft - but it really drives the point home that this is a sportscar made for driving, not a show-off car.

 

[mihc]

I need to see it in more photos and videos, perhaps in different colors. A lot of cars are not great looking at first glance, but then they grow on you with time.

 

[Sunny]

To me, this looks like an early cheap prototype they jerry rigged together for testing on the way to the actual F1 -

Which is such a let down given everything else about the car is so right.

 

[WBarnes]

To me it looks like a cleaner version of the F1.

 

[Rolf]

It sounds sensational but looks very plain from the front. Those large headlights spoil the front in my opinion and make it look like an older MR2. The profile and rear look fantastic though.

 

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[Centurion]

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Wow. This is the.....Jesus car.

Close up, the front looks more Mclaren than MR2 with skinny front tires.

The sound level and pitch is alluring, unique but not obnoxious.

I will eat a shoe is a delivery mileage T50 isn't worth £5-10m in a couple of year.

Congrats to those who have reserved one and a track variant.

 

[WBarnes]

I have a question about DF fans on road cars, well several kind of.

What happens when there's a stone or part of a brick on the road and you put a wheel either side of it? Does it go through the fan? What happens to the vehicles/cyclists behind? And same question again but with a fresh pile of horseshit instead?

 

[Giannis]

And same question again but with a fresh pile of horseshit instead?

Then, shit hits the fan!

 

[Bridster]

I have a question about DF fans on road cars, well several kind of.

What happens when there's a stone or part of a brick on the road and you put a wheel either side of it? Does it go through the fan? What happens to the vehicles/cyclists behind? And same question again but with a fresh pile of horseshit instead?

This has been explained during the early interviews - the fan only sucks the boundary layer of the diffuser so the air doesn't stall because of the aggressive diffuser shape and follows it instead. It's not powerful enough to suck in stones (or indeed horseshit) and the air is drawn at 90 degree angle to the airflow so you are not gonna have anything flying in there by accident either. The only problem is gonna be if you were to drive behind it in rain because the diffuser (rather than the fan really) is gonna throw up a lot of dirty spray, but that's really the same problem you would get with any high downforce car.

 

[Bridster]

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My favorite video from the event so far - really gives you an idea how it would feel to drive this car. That engine with a manual, the car weighing less than a ton and you sitting in the middle - looks to be a completely unreal experience.

 

[martinbo]

That engine with a manual, the car weighing less than a ton and you sitting in the middle - looks to be a completely unreal experience.

I've watched a few vids from Goodwood and the car sounds unbelievable. It's down to this and the last hurrah Huayra for best-sounding upcoming hypercar.
Still quite a bit of transmission whine. I hope they can (and probably will) sort that out in the production models.
I reckon this will be one of the greatest analogue cars to drive ever but the gutting thing is, I'll never experience one. Heck, even to this day, I've never seen an F1. That's a unicorn for me.

 

[Matski]

Heck, even to this day, I've never seen an F1. That's a unicorn for me.

You should get your ass up here for Goodwood. It's only a 173 hour drive.

Outside of shows or events, I've seen one in the wild, and even that was still at Silverstone (in the paddock car park rather than being exhibited). According to google they're not as rare as some modern Mclarens. Probably the rarest car I've seen out and about (that isn't rare because it was a sh!t bucket or just unpopular) is the Jaguar XJ220. At which point there was probably about 20-25 on the road in the UK, compared to the estimated 55 Mclaren F1's at the moment.

Fun fact, my first car is, apparently, rarer than all the above mentioned cars now... with only 6 still on the road... they would very much fall into the sh!t bucket and unpopular categories though