Gordon Murray may be busy working on his T25 family city-car, but the creator of the McLaren F1 has not abandoned plans to work on a successor to the landmark supercar.

“It will be the world’s next F1,”Murray told CAR Magazine. “However, it will be a dramatic step backward in power and top speed.”

Murray said that the successor to the McLaren F1 will “offer the ultimate in driver appeal and engineering exquisiteness, and still be highly expensive and exclusive.” He said that it will be so exclusive that “it’ll be a new breed.”

“The way supercars are done right now, they’ve got no future at all,” he said. While Murray still has yet to sit down and come up with official weight, power and other performance targets, he promises that the car will be much lighter and smaller than the current F1.

As for the up coming P1 from McLaren, Murray says “it’s bound to disappoint” - and that means a lot coming from the creator of one of the best supercars to ever ride on Earth.

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Episode 2 of Top Gear's 13th season aired last night in the UK, and the main event was a one-mile drag race between the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron. Notice that we didn't say a McLaren F1 and a Bugatti Veyron. These two supercars are so super (and rare) that any single example tends to represent the whole run of each, and since your chances of encountering two of either kind in the same place are practically nill, they might as well be the only ones in existence.

The Top Gear crew chose Abu Dhabi as the location for its supercar shootout. With an arid climate that sees practically no rain or freezing-and-thawing cycles, the roads in Abu Dhabi are long, straight and, most importantly, free of pot holes. Richard Hammond chooses to pilot the Bug and The Stig takes the centrally located wheel of the F1. We won't spoil the results except to say that this is the most real and nail-biting competition that we've seen on Top Gear in a long time. Video in the jump!



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In the jump, a sad aftermath when a fire consumes the rear of a McLaren F1.