Gordon Murray is playing coy again — and doing it masterfully. On August 14, the company will reveal a new supercar, but so far it has handed out just one shadowy teaser ahead of Monterey Car Week. No numbers, no name. Just a silhouette.
The image reveals a low, wide body, a roof-mounted intake, NACA-style ducts and an almost flat rear end with no visible wing. That missing wing is the giveaway: several outlets agree the car looks like a “wingless” take on the existing S1 LM — a more road-focused, less aggressive variant. There’s no official confirmation yet, but the overlaps are too numerous to be coincidence. The Quail is officially set for August 14, 2026, with the reveal hosted by Gordon Murray himself alongside three-time “Indianapolis 500” winner Dario Franchitti.
The link to the McLaren F1 exists mostly at the level of the designer and visual association. Gordon Murray created the original F1, and its 6.1-liter BMW Motorsport S70/2 produced 627 hp at 7,500 rpm; a car with that V12 won the “24 Hours of Le Mans” in 1995. BMW M itself tells that story in detail. There’s no reason right now to expect BMW power in the new GMSV project — that’s a different era.
A closer reference point is Murray’s own recent projects, and the price tag here isn’t abstract. One of just five S1 LM units recently sold at auction for a record $20.6 million — the best result ever for a modern supercar at auction. GMSV officially builds one-off cars, ultra-limited runs and special models, a lineup that sits apart from the standard GMA program. In July, the Le Mans GTR made its first appearance on a public track: production is capped at 24 units, built around a naturally aspirated Cosworth V12, rear-wheel drive and a manual gearbox.
Another current reference is the T.50s Niki Lauda, which has already moved from prototypes to customer cars. Its 3.9-liter V12 revs to 12,100 rpm, but even that figure can’t be used to predict the new model: GMSV builds both its own special constructions and projects on existing architectures.
So until the reveal, it’s worth leaving four things out of the story: the car’s name, its engine, production numbers and price. If the teaser really does continue the ideas of the McLaren F1 or the S1 LM, that will become clear on August 14 — for now the resemblance remains an interpretation of the image, not a manufacturer specification.
