Shell and Gordon Murray to build a concept city car

Shell, in collaboration with the legendary race and road car designer Professor Gordon Murray and engine specialist Osamu Goto, will co-engineer an ultra-compact, efficient car for city use based around the internal combustion engine.

The Shell concept is intended to be a simple, practical global city car; drawing together the most innovative aspects of lightweight engineering, streamlining, and driveline efficiency and work brilliantly whether you are in a city where mass-motoring is a relatively new thing or already a century-old. Once built, the car will be tested on the road.

Shell provides the fluids for the car specifically 'designing' the motor oil that complements and enhances the overall efficiency of the vehicle. Most people would naturally assume that oil, greases and fuels are simply added at the end of a concept car build project like this, but the Shell car aims to show what can be achieved when its products are integrated into the design, right from the start.

Jump to the video as Gordon Murray tells us more about his new collaboration with Shell.