Gordon Murray Is Now Making Bespoke Supercars After His T.50 Sold Out

Gordon Murray has had a long and legendary career in designing cars, from Formula 1 racers to the McLaren F1 to the more recent T.50, which to some is the only hypercar that matters. Now that every T.50 has sold out, Murray is moving on to making bespoke, one-off supercars.

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles launched this week to build variants of the T.50 and the T.33, but also for one-offs. Gordon Murray Special Vehicles will build you new versions of older Murray-designed cars, too.

“Over the years, we have received many requests to design and build one-offs and specials of all kinds. Until very recently we always resisted these requests as we were focused on launching our halo T.50 supercar, and finalizing development of subsequent products: the T.50S Niki Lauda and the T.33 range,” Murray said, according to Top Gear. “Now, as we have grown the business and team, we have established separate design and engineering departments for [Gordon Murray Special Vehicles] – it’s the perfect time to extend our offering to special vehicles.”

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles will have three different briefs: bespoke cars, heritage cars, and “special vehicles.” The first of those are cars intended to be built on a new platform or Gordon Murray Automotive‘s existing platforms that were used for the T.50 and T.33. Heritage cars are continuation cars, or bespoke continuation cars, perhaps a new Brabham fan car or a new version of McLaren F1, Top Gear speculates.

Special vehicles, meanwhile, are cars that are “outside of the current [Gordon Murray Automotive] product and platform plan,” or entirely new creations dreamt up by customers with the assistance of the Gordon Murray and his engineers. If not completely unique, every Gordon Murray Special Vehicles car will be extremely low volume, or likely in the single digits.

Car designers building bespoke vehicles for moneyed clients has a long history in cars, almost to the very beginning. The appeal for car designers is simple: a guaranteed order, though building cars to clients’ specifications means exactly that, ensuring there is another, very demanding cook in the kitchen. Customers, meanwhile, can brag that their new supercar has the imprimatur of one of the greatest car designers ever.

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Gordon Murray Special Vehicles is expected to unveil its first bespoke car later this year.