FACOM® & Gordon Murray Design Join Forces

Automotive Design Legend, Gordon Murray has enlisted FACOM® as their technical partners for his new design project.

Headed up by CEO and Technical Director Gordon Murray – who has been instrumental in Formula One over the last 40 years with Brabham and McLaren Racing and was founder of McLaren Cars, designers of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren – the company aims to push the boundaries of automotive and engineering design.

David Osborne, head of marketing at Facom, said: “Gordon Murray Design brings together a group of highly talented engineers unprecedented in the automotive industry. It is testament to the quality and innovation of Facom’s range of tools that these were specified by Gordon Murray’s team at the company’s state-of-the-art facilities in Surrey.”

Gordon Murray Design’s first project – Type 25 or T25 – will be a radical, innovative design for a new type of personal transport vehicle which applies a ‘fit for purpose’ approach to lightweight material usage in its construction to achieve an ultra low vehicle weight.

Specifically designed to offer a quantifiable reduction in fuel usage emissions and road congestion once adopted by manufacturers within two years of start up, the vehicle will feature lower parts count for faster assembly and a size and shape to open up many innovative traffic and parking opportunities.

Gordon Murray said: “The ultimate target is to create a new class of vehicle on a worldwide basis. In order to do this, it is vitally important our world class design and engineering team have access to the best equipment on the market. The Facom brand has built up a reputation for providing the highest quality tools on the market and we are delighted they are supporting us.

“The T25 will be a new start in small vehicle design. It will be fully engineered from a construction and safety point of view with no concessions applied for new vehicle type. It will have a dramatic and positive effect on environmental damage, congestion and parking problems when produced in volume but most importantly the size, weight and vehicle dynamics will ensure that the driving fun remains alongside protecting our personal mobility for many years to come.”