Delighted to see many of you appreciating the car and others coming around to it. I love it. Curious though perhaps unsurprised about the negativity from some quarters. Have had a read through the totality of the comment thread here and on some of the fb groups and thought a bit about some of the objections and negativity... I thought I might offer a counter in the nature of some perspective to these criticisms?
Some people don’t know a good thing when it’s staring them in the face.
It’s 2025.
It is nice that you are passionate about your purchase but I I would have expected you to appreciate that any design will divide opinion. Each person will judge aesthetic merit in their own way; furthermore, everyone has their own ideas about what represents beauty and is therefore appealing and attractive. As someone who takes photos, I am sure you understand the Golden Ratio and whilst there are some commonalities among the way individuals appreciate a subject, so much of it is down to individual taste and perception.
As for your support of MMC as a company, you are not the only one and many of those people you are addressing have done so for decades and with purchases of many cars and models. So, you are not alone in wishing the business to do well.
If I may say, your post comes across as quite aggressive and struggling to appreciate differences of opinion and aesthetic ideals. This is not the first time you've taken this approach, and tone, and been dismissive of Morgan cars prior to the CX. TM is a great place to share opinions and have a civilised conversation; however, preaching, taking an argumentative stance and belittling other people's choice of a car, less so. I read the Pistonheads thread last night and that seems far more worthy of your approach, as do some of the comments on the various YouTube videos. With TM, you seem to be preaching to the choir and picking a fight with people who have owned Morgans for a very long time, supporting the company in the process, all because some of them have a differing idea of what is attractive to you.
Simon, I'm sorry it comes across as "aggressive". You guys seem to call it 'banter' when it's levelled in my direction or the direction of those who are excited about the new cars, but seem unhappy or triggered about being on the other side of it. I'm sorry about that! Do let me know if this isn't the forum though for discussions like this!
I'm just not sure what the negativity that seeps in here is about. I know some of you feel I'm too hard on the 'old' guard, and I can only apologise if thats how it seems. For my part, I love the company's long and rich history, have a reasonable acquaintance and friendship with Charles Morgan and even taught one of his sons English at school, and have so throughly enjoyed being a new owner and part of that history. That said, in my limited time here on this forum I have found a surprising antipathy for the post 2019 cars. If there is a breakdown in the relationship between new and older owners, I don't think it originates at the new end of things. All the new owners I know are delighted to feel like they're part of Morgan's history. It's the tutting and fretting and disparagement from some of the older contributors that I think has put things at odds.
I can't deny that most/all of you have more experience with the company and brand and indeed life than I do, I suppose what surprises me is how ready and keen some (not all) of you seem to be grumpy about ongoing development.
I can't deny I'd rather be positive about things then negative, and optimistic as opposed to pessimistic, and with respect to Morgan feel both positive and optimistic.
