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First of all, I think it is very good and important that MMC is making a name for itself. In my opinion, the Midsummer is a very elegant Art Deco design. The inclusion of the big name Pininfarina is a very well done co-branding.
With this wonderful design that expresses so much class and aesthetics (except for the wooden frame above the doors), it is unfortunate that even the driver is a distracting element. When I look at pictures of the Plus 8 Speedster, it looks a bit goofy with the driver in it...plus the headrests, which are effective and mandatory for safety reasons, but the death of any Speedster line.



So, it's more of a sculpture that is beautiful without the driver and headrests.
A word about the line of the rear. I absolutely love it. In fact, as DaveW says, I'd like to see a picture with a "normal" Morgan with windshield and roof that has that rear line....if it would work together with it. Then it would be the special edition "Plus Six Pininfarina" and it wouldn't suffer from the vulnerabilities of a Speedster line described above.
However, the steeply sloping rear of a normal Morgan is a design statement with the core message "It's a Morgan" whether you like the style or not. The image below of the Plus 8 Speedster's sideline is perhaps less elegant, but it still evokes strong emotions for me, those of an archaic power vehicle with unbridled forward momentum and the experience of becoming one with this divine or diabolical machine.



The Midsummer, despite all the admiration I have for it...if a little blasphemy is allowed, reminds me of a beautiful middle-aged woman who is a little insecure about her looks (or who is simply bored) and so she has been to a plastic surgeon to have this and that fixed and reshaped. Nevertheless, in the end it is a beautiful result when the surgeon's name is Pininfarina. However, the "devilish" part of a Morgan was replaced by a Villa d'este Life Style. That can also be pleasing. To sum up, I think it's a great project with some (but little) ambivalence.