Thank you all and in particular Peter and Will.
Peter, the purple is a lovely colour and funnily enough the colour of the A110 I went to look at a few years back. Akin to the world of Morgan (or perhaps the majority of car companies), the dealers seem disorganised, and often disinterested, and although I had a test drive booked, the dealership (with one sales person on duty), had no record of it. Needless to say, an hour long journey was a wasted trip and I shelved the idea after that.
Will, the 'go-to amongst other cars in a garage' aspect seems all too common; furthermore, there are more than a few owners who seem to have come from far more expensive, and outright quicker, cars. I've also read up on David Pook and Lifes and he does seem to be doing great work.
Aerotaff, it will be interesting to see how they accomplish that because the general reluctance to add more BHP seems to stem from concerns about the gearbox - in my understanding, this is why the R has the same BHP as the GT and the S but relies on aero and even more lightness to gain performance gains. However, perhaps an extra 50BHP (ish) has now been deemed within tolerance.
What I do find sad is that they are killing it off in favour of an all EV route - akin to Lotus. As Harry Metcalf recently said in a review of the latest Lotus EV, there is an element of current EV tech that makes it the antithesis of the foundation of Lotus - heavy and Lotus aren't comfortable bedfellows. In time there is no doubt batteries will get smaller and lighter but at the moment, changing light cars to EV seems a recipe for losing what is great about them.
