Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Plus Four, Supersport & Plus Six (CX & CXV Generation Vehicles) 3 years of Plus 6, good bad and ugly now sold.

I've just sold my Morgan, the clutch was just becoming too much for me especially in traffic, sad in one sense but I don't think I will miss it. I spend most of yesterday in the wife's SLK roof down, air con on, even in E mode it was a blast around Lancashire countryside and then found myself inching my way thru Blackpool rush hour traffic in the low 30c temps, which would have been hard work in the Morgan.

I did .consider long and hard whether to go with an auto CX, but the more I read the less inclined I became. The CX is a massive improvement in many ways over the Trad, but unfortunately the Morgan engineering is IMHO it's weakness and invariably lets it down. It's something that not unique to Morgan other manufacturers have major flaws in vehicles in the same price range. The only difference for me is some of the fundamentals (some might consider it character or charm or part of the Morgan experience) eg the hood that still struggles to keep the cold and wet out, fasteners snap and its not even double or triple lined for comfort and to lower noise when up. Not really acceptable in todays world and to add insult to injury the water ingress may spoil all, that lovely leather work. Ok back in the days of rubber mats but not in nicely upholstered interiors they fit these days. For me the most fundamental change the CX bought about was not having to find somewhere for the grease gun and rug to lie on every time you went away on holiday.

I understand exactly why so many are enjoying their CX, with a new reality that values will fall and potentially longer term like with the Aero's, fixability and spare support may pose a problem, then again some may not worry too much and just keep trading in for a new one every 3 years or so, so it becomes someone else's problem not theirs. further down the line..

I'm also sure that many would enjoy open air motoring as much with other marques as I have for over 50 years of motoring roof down. I had just as much fun within a very low performance envelope in my Midgets and TR7's back in the 70's and 80's as I have ever had in my Morgans and those BL basic crude hoods never let rain, draughts or snow in. Fun is not the sole preserve of Morgan, and that's why I always buy convertibles.

I did wonder where Hammond had put the driver's side screen as he had filled the boot with his luggage, not a problem or even a consideration with wind down windows.

I'm sure Morgan will survive, but it may become more low volume, more exclusive, niche and upmarket, where residuals and maintenance costs don't feature in the buyers equation