If you carefully read the article it says “The success of British specialist car manufacturers such as Morgan, which produces the Plus 8 (photo reproduced), will enable them to increase production by 60% to 52,000 vehicles a year by 2020, a report by the SMMT industry body has said”. So this includes all of the British specialist manufacturers. Who will buy them it doesn’t say but I guess most of those will be for export as the U.K. market for such vehicles is very niche and not a particular expanding one. As for Morgan, you can buy virtually any new model from the dealerships and a bespoke car will only take a matter of months. Gone are the days of the many years waiting lists. Unless they push the export market I think Morgan are overproducing. Morgans are now an older person’s aspirational car and are far too expensive to attract the sort of person who would buy Spitfires, MGB’s and Sprite/ Midgets back in the 60’s. Even the excellent MX 5’s seem to be driven by retirees. I don’t think many youngsters yearn for a sportscar nowadays. They are driven by those reviving their lost youth. At 74 I drive a Jag F Type which now appears to be an old man’s car!
