Hi all,
I have been 'away' for a little while but 'lurking' in the background and keeping up to speed with Morgan antic's!
I will only add to this debate by saying, sticking neoprene onto a new Plus Four that costs somewhere north of £60k.....is just lunacy! I used to laugh at BL build quality....
Morgan need to get a grip of these issues and just take a look at what their owners are trying to 'engineer' on their own?
I am a potential returning (new car) Morgan owner, that just won't happen until some of this is sorted.
I hope to read things have improved - in a little while for you guys - I might test a new Morgan then.....regards Mark
I totally agree with you….hence my early comment about how much these cars are now. Part of me would love another Morgan but there’s no way I’d spend that sort of money and have niggles like leaking roofs, poor door sealing etc. I had enough problems with my last Morgan to make me sell it in the end in pure frustration. I really should be surprised that the factory hasn’t got on top of shoddy workmanship particularly with the new owners…..but I’m not. There are some craftsmen there but there’s also an amount of not really caring sufficiently and much that I like and admire Steve Morris, he needs to get a grip and bang heads together.
Sorry….I know there’s a lot of you on here that will disagree with me, accepting the Morgan hand built foibles and seeing the cars with rose tinted glasses but having been away from the marque for a while, I now take a more dispassionate view. I feel like giving the factory a good kick up the arse in frustration.
When I was last at Berrybrook with my 4/4 (MoT - passed, no advisories), I spent some time waiting in the showroom.
They were displaying a new Plus Four, with a price in excess of £75,000!
I would expect near perfection for that money; however from the various comments, I suspect that I would be disappointed.
To buy a Plus Four new would mean me having to find about £50,000 on top of the value of my car.
I’m not sure what real world benefits that £50k would buy me?
My 4/4 (since a new hood in 2009) is fairly water tight and the doors fit well, without additional neoprene.
Also, being equipped with ‘Armstrong Steering’ means no p.a.s issues.
Overall, it provides decent performance, decent handling and as many smiles as when I first bought it 18 years ago.
I no longer feel that I am anywhere near MMC’s target customer base.
I wish new owners all the best, but am quite glad that I am a bit of a dinosaur 🦖 as I do fear for the long term future of MMC, if they don’t sort out the quality issues.
Bud
4/4 - Stanley
