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Everything about this car: the man behind it, the passion, the reasons for building it, the emphasis on feel, theatre & experience rather than 0-60, top-speed or lap times...the formula & recipe is just the complete antithesis of the modern supercar and even the modern/future automobile.
It's absolutely incredible that Gordon Murray & Cosworth were able to create a small window (for the 100 or so lucky bastards) to experience this alternate parallel universe where of a supercar/driver's car that is devoid of everything that has, in recent years, slowly contributed to the erosion of the emotional driving experience (corporate executive boards, bean-counters, marketing teams, techies, fuel economy/environment, horsepower/torque wars, shift-times, lap-times, acceleration times, top-speed, badge-whores, etc.).
The T.50 is a bittersweet manifestation in many ways.
It's with great appreciation, admiration, and excitement that a car like this can even exist in 2020, that someone took the effort, time, and resources to make an actual production car as a middle finger to the enumerated 'eroders' and as a last hurrah for an analog driving experience at the highest & purest level.
But it's also with great sadness knowing that there will likely never be anything else like it, and hearing Gordon Murray praise the BMW S70 V12 decades after its inception really brings to light the stark contrast between the BMW of then, and the BMW of today. Some three decades later, BMW still has respectable engines, but supplying a modular Inline-6 to a mass-produced Toyota and being approached by a renowned Formula 1 designer to build a bespoke V12 engine with strict requirements for a supercar are two different levels.
A huge kudos to Gordon Murray for putting so much soul and thought into genuine automotive passion & for valuing the emotional side of driving that has been lost or diluted many times over in the auto industry.
If anyone wonders what a sportscar/supercar/driver's car in this decade would look like if it were strictly developed by engineers, then this is it.
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