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Gordon Murray documentary on BBC4: CAR's preview

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Ben Oliver, 06 July 2012 11:00

We originally ran this story in March 2012, but the BBC moved the schedule. It's now been confirmed the documentary will run this Sunday 8 July 2012 at 8.00pm (BST) after the British grand prix. Now this is why we pay our licence fees. BBC4 has shot an hour-long documentary on Gordon Murray which intersperses his extraordinary 40-year history designing some ...

Twelve things you may not know about the McLaren F1

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Tim Pollard, 06 July 2012 10:18

To mark the 20th anniversary of the McLaren F1, CAR recently spent an afternoon at home with Gordon Murray, the F1's designer. Don't miss the 10-page feature in the July 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, out now. Here are a dozen surprise facts you may not know about the McLaren F1, remembered by Murray. 1) Gordon Murray's friend George Harrison ...

Bayley visits the McLaren Technology Centre (CAR archive April 2007)

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Stephen Bayley, 28 June 2012 09:09

My first visit to McLaren was 1967, organised by a dutiful parent with industry connections. In those days the premises was an insanitary lock-up garage on a Weybridge trading estate. A boggle-eyed schoolboy, I was admiring the M6 Can-Am car. My boggling increased when, from out back, a cheery, chattery bloke emerged in grubby racing overalls, unpolished lace-ups, rubbing Swarfega ...

Gavin Green decries the trend to ugly car engines

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Gavin Green, 01 June 2012 09:35

On the 20th birthday of the marvellous McLaren F1 road car – it was launched two decades ago at a Monaco GP party – I am reminded of one of its many virtues. But one that never received the praise it deserved. Namely, it’s superb engine presentation. Designer Gordon Murray wanted a very beautiful (ie not full of plastic gubbins) ...

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