When I first went looking for a Morgan it was because I wanted a 1950's standard of driving experience, because I wanted to have fun learning how to coax the performance out of a car that worked with me better as I learned its input requirements, as I became more skilled at it. The fact that it was beautiful was an added bonus. I wanted a car to love and to enjoy. The "trad" fulfilled all those things for me. I used to love the shock evident in Porsche drivers when I kept up ( up to about 90 after which I was happy to back off) in my little antiquated sports car. I enjoyed getting wet. Over the years as traffic environment has changed I've dropped engine sizes just so that I can still find that fun in the driving. The CX models look lovely but, by being updated to modern standards, they cannot fulfill my requirements. No criticism of prospective or existing CX owners but for me the new cars are a pastiche of an old car if they drive like a modern car. I mean, automatic? Just my opinion, I wouldn't expect younger drivers to agree with me and I absolutely see why MMC need to update the cars to stay in business and I fully see that at my age I'm being left behind. Quite right too, the world looks forward not backwards. So I'm glad times change, but for me, I wish they had carried on making the old cars as well, although I see quite clearly why they couldn't.
It's just a different client base required to survive.
Price or investment value has had nothing to do with my ownership decisions
Having driven my wife's very lovely Volvo today, where everything is automatic, lights, wipers, gears, brakes if it thinks you aren't concentrating, it will find a space and park itself.......but the driver is reduced to basically steering it and even that can be affected by what the car brain thinks. And every input has a minute delay before the car reacts....a great thing for a long uninvolved journey but I was aching to be back in a real driving experience by 4pm.
Nick
Last edited by nick w; 04/04/24 09:24 PM.
