Thanks for the dateline Brian.
My intention was to highlight the momentous changes at MMC rather than to the customer base.
Three wheels to four, and switching chassis designs from steel ladder to bonded aluminium is seismic without a doubt.
Is the three wheeler club really that recent? I imagined it would have been around a lot longer.
If I were to look for an Aero, it would be an S4, not the new Plus8+, because with the modern underpinnings I would want the Aero shape - (hypothetically speaking of course).
Strip out the hyperbole and we have much in common Dave. Describe the Aero as an evolution, even as a step-change, but seismic certainly doesn't reflect what happened at the time.
When the Aero was introduced, you may remember that Lotus had already brought out the Elise with a bonded chassis and this was followed a few years later by formerly conservative Aston Martin bringing out their own bonded aluminium chassis, so Morgan's development was 'in period'.
With Charles' racing background we were certainly expecting changes, but the Aero 8 was certainly ahead of any changes we expected him to make to the range and in Morgan terms was certainly radical!
I agree that customers become the arbiters of which model is successful and which is not, but manufacturers retain the right to name their cars. If MMC want to call it a Plus 8, then to my mind that is what it is and not a Plus 8+ or an Aero V as it is called on MogWire; that IMHO is just being totally juvenile.
Lastly, you say that MG was riddled with different opinions on various models and as I had a new RV8 (not my first MG) when they came out I also experienced some of the same nonsense in that community that Aero 8 owners received in the Morgan community, and which resulted ultimately in the formation of the Aero 8 Club.
As Boshers said above, hopefully this thinking had been "left behind with more recent advances in the Morgan community's thinking? Forgive me if I'm incorrect."
Let's just enjoy our Mog's whatever model we drive and in my case, I'm really looking forward to getting my M3W...
Brian
P.S. Love the Series IV Dave, but with your proclivities wouldn't a Series I be the one for you? 
