This barely driven Gordon Murray T.50 could fetch over $6 million at auction

A 2024 Gordon Murray Automotive T.50, one of just 100 examples built and showing only 62 miles from new, is heading to auction through RM Sotheby's Sealed Bid sale. The sale opens September 23 and closes September 30 at 2:45 p.m. EDT, with a price estimate between roughly $5.68 million and $6.22 million.

The car is chassis No. 47, a number with personal weight for its designer. Professor Gordon Murray used 47 as the race number on the T.1 two-seater he built in his bedroom at age 17, and his McLaren F1 GTR won Le Mans outright on his 47th birthday in June 1995.

Harvey Stanley, RM Sotheby's director of private sales, calls the car essentially new. It is unregistered and has never been driven by its owner, who kept it mothballed in a professional UK storage facility apart from factory testing and auction photography.

Stanley describes the opportunity for buyers who missed the original run in blunt terms: it is, in his words, one of the most exciting driver's cars produced so far in the 21st century. The specification behind that claim is where the T.50 sets itself apart from other modern hypercars.

What makes the T.50 unusual

The T.50 is Murray's stated refinement of the McLaren F1 he designed in the early 1990s, built around the same pursuit of lightness. It weighs less than 2,200 pounds, a figure that puts it well below most rivals in its price bracket and defines how it drives.

Power comes from a 3.9-liter naturally aspirated Cosworth V-12 that revs to 12,100 rpm and makes 654 hp. Gordon Murray Automotive puts the zero-to-60 mph time at 2.9 seconds and the top speed at 226 mph, figures built around a car designed to be driven rather than merely owned.

This example was completed at GMA's Highams Park headquarters in Surrey, England, in 2024. Its owner specified Harrier dark gray paint under a satin protection film for a matte finish, with the trademark rear fan and exterior trim finished in satin carbon.

Inside, the cabin is trimmed in charcoal Alcantara, with the center-mounted driver's seat finished in contrasting Luffield Tan leather. The single-seat driving position, inherited from the F1, is one of the T.50's defining traits and part of what collectors are bidding on.

How the T.50 sold out and what it costs now

GMA unveiled the T.50 online in August 2020 at a base price of 2.36 million pounds sterling, roughly $3 million at the time. The entire run of 100 cars sold out within 48 hours of the reveal, despite that price and no finished car yet built.

Buyers included Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay, four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti and Baton Rouge collector Dan Heard, who appeared on Jay Leno's Garage with his T.50 alongside a matching McLaren F1 and P1. Ralph Lauren is rumored to own one as well.

Auction results for the model are thin but climbing. Tech entrepreneur Matt Katz paid $8.035 million for chassis No. 009 at the California Mille sale through Broad Arrow Auctions in April, then wrapped the Reef Red car in racing blue vinyl after driving it in the rally.

The only other T.50 to reach auction was chassis No. 035, delivered to a Danish buyer in 2025 and sold at RM Sotheby's Abu Dhabi sale last December for $5.63 million. Stanley says the model has doubled in value in six years, with no sign that pace is slowing.

Stanley draws the comparison to the McLaren F1, which trades today around $20 million, and to Ferrari Enzo values that have now overtaken the once-untouchable 250 SWB. Whether the T.50 follows that trajectory, he says, only time will tell.

Asked whether chassis No. 47 has any link to Gordon Murray's own collection, Stanley offered only "no comment," a line consistent with the confidentiality built into RM Sotheby's Sealed Bid format. Bidders will not know who else is competing or by how much.

We have tracked this kind of low-mileage hypercar coming to market before, including the factory matte black Ferrari Enzo once ordered for Brunei's royal family, a car we covered for its own rarity within a tiny production run.

Both cases turn on scarcity within an already small run of cars, which is what pushes estimates well above the original sticker price and keeps demand concentrated among a handful of serious bidders.

Our coverage of the garage category has followed hypercar auction values closely, and the pattern here fits: a car built in the hundreds, not thousands, tends to appreciate fastest once its production run is confirmed closed. The T.50's near-doubling in six years is part of that trend.

The Sealed Bid sale runs through September 30, and the final price will be the clearest marker yet of how much T.50 values have moved less than two years after the model's first deliveries began.