The team behind one of the most successful racing cars in history is to turn its attentions to the city car market.
Fuel giant Shell, legendary designer Professor Gordon Murray, and former Honda F1 engine chief Osamu Goto last collaborated on the 1988 McLaren-Honda which, in the hands of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, won all-but-one of that season’s Formula One Grand Prix races.
Now the Shell-initiated Project M city car will see them reunite to tackle the issue of motoring in the world’s increasingly congested cities, where it is predicted up to three-quarters of the global population could be living by the middle of this century.
Professor Murray has previously delved into the city car sector with the T.25 concept, and he and his design team will be co-engineering an ultra-compact, efficient, internal combustion powered model in collaboration with Shell’s Lubricant Technology Team and Mr Goto’s Geo Technology engine specialists. With brief to create a simple, practical city car using lightweight engineering, streamlining, and driveline efficiency, the Project M is expected to be unveiled in November this year before undergoing on-the-road testing.
Announcing the project, Selda Gunsel, Shell Vice President Lubricants Technology said: “Since working with the Gordon Murray Design team on the T.25 car in 2010, we have given further thought on how to deliver a complete rethink of the car, using as little energy as possible. We believe this Shell car will demonstrate how efficient a car can be when Shell works in harmony with vehicle and engine makers during design and build, supplying fuels and lubricants technical expertise.”
Click here to sign up for our monthly newsletter
Popular news stories
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
|
|
||||||
