Gordon's Got a Gong

Gordon Murray that is.  I did a piece on him back in April 2016.  Not that the BBC seem to want to recognise one of our great British engineers.  (Although born in South Africa, his parentage was Scottish and his nationality is British)

He designed the McLaren F1 and five F1 Championship winning cars including Ayrton Senna's 1988-Winning McLaren.  He's been involved in many innovative projects since.  Fortunately, at least Autocar have the story.

 

The gong he's been given in the New Years Honours List is the CBE (Commander of the British Empire)

 

I think great engineers should be given a Knighthood, but apparently they go to particularly odious Tory MPs called John who threaten to vote against Teresa May's Brexit deal: 

Shell-Shock

I find it very difficult to criticise anything Gordon Murray has done.

After all, he designed the McLaren F1.

 

He also designed the very clever T25, which doesn't look awful in black:

Although really doesn't suit turquoise:

 

Don't know why, but it reminds me of one of these:

And if you want to know more about those, read this article.

But both Autoguide & Fox have the story I am posting about today.  The Fox one is littered with the usual anti-Democrat bile in the comments section that they love there so much so I'll link to the Autoguide version.  The story is how Shell, Gordon Murray and Geo Technology (No, never heard of them either) have teamed up to produce a concept car - an actual working, extremely fuel-efficient, extremely lifetime energy efficient concept car.

I suspect that Shell put up most of the money because it is painted in their colours and I'm not convinced that BP or Texaco or any other fuel company couldn't have come up with equally slippery lubricants.

Now I know that last week, I slated the looks of the Mahindra e2o.

And a while back I commented on how covered in wheels are ugly.

But this is taking things to extremes: