Gordon Murray has announced a new company — Gordon Murray Automotive — that will take innovative car designs into limited-run production (www.gordonmurraydesign.com).

The company’s first car will be a flagship model that will buck the trend for ever more complicated and heavy vehicles.

Mr Murray said: “The new manufacturing business significantly expands the capabilities of our group of companies. With our first new car, we will demonstrate a return to the design and engineering principles that have made the McLaren F1 such an icon.”

This year has several significant anniversaries for Gordon Murray; it is his 50th year in vehicle engineering and design, the 10th year of operation for Gordon Murray Design, 25 years since the McLaren F1 road car went into production, and the 10th anniversary of the company’s innovative iStream automotive manufacturing technology.

These will all be celebrated in an exhibition that will gather — for the first and possibly only time in one location — almost every race and road car from Gordon Murray’s 50-year career.

It will showcase familiar milestone cars, as well as a number of designs that have never — or rarely — been on show before. See www.oneformulagordonmurray.com for more details.