Gordon Murray Special Vehicles with Tributes to Heritage at Monterey Car Week

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles unveils pair of Le Mans tribute supercars

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• US global launch of Gordon Murray Special Vehicles and the company’s first two supercars
• New models celebrate long-tail endurance racers and reimagine Murray’s 1995 Le Mans winning car 30 years on
• Bespoke customer commission – the GMSV S1 LM – delivers a intimate, unfiltered connection between driver and machine in a road-going homage to Murray’s landmark Le Mans 1995 win
• Gordon Murray Special Vehicles to build 24 ‘Le Mans GTR’ models drawing on history’s greatest longtail racing cars

Monterey, California, 15 August 2025 – Gordon Murray Special Vehicles, the British manufacturer of SV Design, Heritage, and Bespoke sports and supercars has revealed its first two models – a pair of Le Mans tribute supercars – during Monterey Car Week in California.

The new GMSV company redefines bespoke automotive craftsmanship, celebrates Gordon Murray’s heritage, and champions driver-centric visionary design. While sister company GMA focuses on premium, hand-built production cars, GMSV creates one-off commissions, limited-edition special designs and heritage-inspired continuations in response to sustained demand from enthusiasts, collectors, and visionaries seeking unique vehicles that transcend convention.

The US global launch of newly created company ‘Gordon Murray Special Vehicles’ saw the presentation of new supercars from its ‘SV Design’ and ‘Bespoke’ product lines. Reflecting on Gordon’s love for endurance racing and his car’s emphatic 1995 Le Mans win, both vehicles take inspiration from one of the world’s greatest road races and deliver contemporary visions of the era’s racers.

GMSV S1 LM
The GMSV S1 LM is the first ever commission executed by Gordon Murray Special Vehicles. As GMSV’s first vehicle, ‘S1’ denotes ‘Special One’, born from the customer’s passion for Gordon’s 1990s designs and his landmark 1995 win at Le Mans. The timeless design pays homage to the beauty of Murray’s original Le Mans-winning race car featuring prominent high-downforce aerodynamic elements. The primary focus of this project was to push the seven principles of Prof. Gordon Murray further than ever before with a particular emphasis on exclusivity, return to beauty, engineering art, lightweightness, and driving perfection.

Professor Gordon Murray, Group Executive Chairman: “I love timeless design. I never want us to join the race to make the most outrageous looking supercar at expense of balance, beauty and proportion. Look at the result, the car is timeless and beautiful.”

Its profile features a newly lowered roofline and every surface is completely new, made from ultra-lightweight carbon fibre body panels. The aero package is specific to S1 LM, with a front splitter, rear diffuser, and dual element rear wing that together deliver significant downforce and stability. At both ends, Le Mans-inspired lights feature precision-engineered housings that flow seamlessly with the LM’s sculpted bodywork.

Building on Gordon Murray’s belief that the engine is the heart of the car and represents at least half of the experience, the S1 LM places its masterpiece at the very centre. The removal of the rear fan and oil cooling pack frees space to house a unique and exclusive 4.3-litre V12, producing over 700 PS – paired with a bespoke Inconel exhaust system, wrapped in 18-karat gold-foiled heat shielding. Engine development focused on larger displacement, lighter internals, and a higher compression ratio, maximising power, torque, and responsiveness. Capable of revving to 12,100 rpm, the V12 delivers a distinctive harmony through its four centrally mounted exhausts, inspired by the 1995 Le Mans–winning legend.

The manual gearbox was developed using the T.50s casing with T.50 internals and optimised linkage and set-up to deliver short rifle-bolt throws. Suspension is bespoke, with new geometry, a lower ride height, and unique damper settings to deliver a sharp and highly connected driving experience. The innovative solid-mounted engine enables the purest expression of transient handling while minimising unwanted noise and vibration.

The unique, race-inspired cockpit of the S1 LM is ergonomically designed around its central driving position, creating a fighter jet-style environment with minimalist, skeletal architecture, built on one of Gordon Murray’s seven principles: engineering art. The interior explores new lightweighting concepts, utilises the finest materials, and showcases bespoke craftsmanship at every touchpoint, delivering precision that embodies its motorsports pedigree.

The Bespoke division of GMSV will build the client just five of these ultra-exclusive, road-legal S1 LM models for an undisclosed price, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2026.

GMSV Le Mans GTR
The sleek GMSV ‘Le Mans GTR’ draws on Murray’s own longtail Le Mans racers, adding inspiration from other great longtail cars of the 1970s, 80s, 90s. Icons like the Matra-Simca MS660, Porsche 917, and Alpha Romeo Tipo 33/3 contribute timeless characteristics, with performance-led aerodynamics and a distinctive SV Design language separating the new models from the purity of GMA’s supercars.

Professor Gordon Murray, Group Executive Chairman: “Longtail racing cars perfectly combine aerodynamic benefit and aesthetic balance, I’ve always loved their mix of considered engineering and flowing design. Our Le Mans GTR timelessly reimagines the longtail racers I’ve admired since I began designing cars, adding contemporary aerodynamics and our exquisitely engineered chassis, engine, and transmission.”

The new GMSV platform blends road going capability with track-inspired precision. For the Le Mans GTR GMSV utilises the high-revving GMA V12 engine and manual six-speed transmission, but changes almost every other element of the car. Every aspect of the new supercar is founded in Murray’s ethos of lightweight-led, engineering art with a road-going, yet track-inspired driving experience at the core of every design decision.

Featuring enhanced Passive Boundary Layer Control, the sleek form enables low drag, while the aero-balanced front splitter, deep side skirts, and twin-channel rear diffuser generate maximum ground effect aerodynamics. Achieved without the need for the rear-mounted fan of T.50 and T.50s, the high-speed, high-grip package is enhanced further with the addition of a deep, full-width rear wing, delivering optimal balance of downforce and drag for road and track.

Exiting between the twin-tunnel diffuser, the Le Mans GTR double exhaust is engineered to deliver a deep and balanced V12 soundtrack, while the roof-mounted ram-air intake adds to the orchestral cabin experience as owners explore the full 12,100 rpm rev range.

For those opting to drive on circuits, the new SV Design model has stiffer and lighter suspension, a wider track, larger tyres (Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2), greater cooling, and optimised weight distribution. The Le Mans GTR gains larger air vents at the front and adds side-pod intakes ahead of the rear wheels for engine and gearbox cooling. To boost dynamics further, the Gordon Murray team innovated a solid engine mounting system that evades much of the noise and vibration issues commonly associated with solid mounting.

Interior quality is retained despite the driving experience being far more track-focused than GMA’s halo T.50. All driver-focused components are newly designed with the entire dash, all switches and dials, seat cushioning, and pedal pads reimagined. Customers can specify materials and colours to honour iconic longtail racers from years past or work with the Creative design team to produce a highly personalised, modern cockpit.

A limited series of just 24 GMSV Le Mans GTR supercars will be built, one for every hour of the famous race. Development is already underway with the first customer production cars set for completion in 2026. In collaboration with Joe Macari Performance Cars, GMSV paired each model with its owner. All Le Mans GTR supercars are sold, prices are undisclosed.

Phil Lee, Gordon Murray Group CEO: “The Gordon Murray Group has driving perfection, lightweight, engineering art, and exclusivity at the core of all it does. GMSV allows us to explore these core trends, fuelled by the enthusiasm and imagination of our customers. Our first two models demonstrate the GMSV team’s exceptional engineering and design capabilities. We are already working on more models and look forward to partnering with the world’s most passionate driving enthusiasts to create more automotive works of art.”

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV) works with visionary customers to create unique, ultra-low volume vehicles that capitalise on the design, engineering, and manufacturing expertise of the Gordon Murray Group. The company creates vehicles across three categories: SV Design – ultra-low volume designs based on a GMA production vehicle. Heritage – continuation or reimagined models based on Gordon Murray’s illustrious past designs. Bespoke – limited edition or 1-of-1 customer commissions.

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Gordon Murray Group
The UK-based Gordon Murray Group comprises Gordon Murray Automotive, Gordon Murray Special Vehicles, and Gordon Murray Advanced Engineering.

Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) is a UK-based driver-centric premium supercar manufacturer dedicated to creating and manufacturing the world’s greatest driving cars. These ultra-exclusive supercars – the T.50, T.50s, T.33, and T.33 Spider – are engineered and designed without compromise to provide unrivalled driving experiences and driver-centric connection.

Gordon Murray Automotive adheres to seven core brand principles in all its products: Driving Perfection, Lightweight, Engineering Art, Premium Brand, A Return to Beauty, Exclusivity, and The Customer Journey.

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV) works with visionary customers to create unique, ultra-low volume vehicles that capitalise on the design, engineering, and manufacturing expertise of the Gordon Murray Group. The company creates vehicles across three categories: SV Design – ultra-low volume designs based on a GMA production vehicle. Heritage – continuation or reimagined models based on Gordon Murray’s illustrious past designs. Bespoke – limited edition or 1-of-1 customer commissions.

Gordon Murray Advanced Engineering (GMAE) is at the forefront of design and innovation, which enables engineering excellence to deliver the greatest supercars in the world.

Professor Gordon Murray, CBE – Executive Chairman, Gordon Murray Group
Having spent 20 years as Technical Director to two Formula One teams from 1969-1990, Gordon Murray has a wealth of technical, design, and engineering experience. At Brabham he was instrumental in two world championship wins (1981 and 1983) before three consecutive championship wins with McLaren Racing (1988, 1989, and 1990). In 1990 – after 50 Grand Prix wins – Gordon moved away from Formula One to establish a new company for the group, McLaren Cars Limited.

His first project there, the F1 road car, is still regarded as one of the world’s best-engineered cars. A racing version won two world sports car championships and the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1995. McLaren Cars then completed several other successful projects culminating in the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.

Gordon left McLaren in 2005 to set up Gordon Murray Design in 2007. The innovative British company became a world leader in automotive design, having a complete in-house capability for design, prototyping, and development.

In 2017, Gordon Murray celebrated the company’s 10-year anniversary at a special event, named ‘One Formula’. Gordon also celebrated the 25th production anniversary of the iconic F1 road car.

In May 2019, Professor Gordon Murray was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year Honours in recognition of his contributions to the motorsport and automotive sectors. Having formed Gordon Murray Automotive, the T.50 supercar was announced in 2019 and revealed to the world in 2020. Gordon led the team to create the T.50s track car – revealed in 2021, the T.33 coupe – unveiled in 2022, plus the T.33 Spider – first shown in 2023. This year (2025) celebrates 60 years of race and road car design by Gordon Murray.

Phil Lee – CEO, Gordon Murray Group
Phil Lee qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked for PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) for four years. After qualifying, he moved into the automotive industry and has remained in manufacturing throughout his career.

In 2004, Phil joined Plastic Omnium and worked in director positions in China, Europe, USA, and South America. In all the roles, his greatest strength was restructuring and managing change with a major focus on delivering performance.

In 2015, Phil returned to the UK and joined the Geely Group of Companies. The first project was with the London Taxi Company, where he was responsible for the new TX5 vehicle along with a new plant and onboarding a brand-new team.

2017 saw a move to Group Lotus where Phil was responsible for overseeing the acquisition of Lotus, leading to various roles including CFO and Interim CEO. The company’s projects, including Evija, Emira, and Eletre were all developed under Phil’s directorship and proved to be key in transforming Lotus into a volume manufacturer of premium vehicles.

In 2020, Phil joined the Gordon Murray Group, leading the T.50 programme, growth of the Group, and development of the team. In April 2022, Phil became Gordon Murray Group CEO leading the next chapter of development and growth.