Just watched this brilliant interview with the great Gordon Murray by Chris Harris.
Really interesting to hear that after he did the awesome McLaren F1 road car, he pitched a new smaller super car for BMW which they approved.
But when the McLaren F1 team linked up with Mercedes-Benz for use on their Formula 1 engines, the deal was called off with BMW at the last minute
See 52:02 for the start of the BMW chat: