It was a long day, with a 4am start and only just got home at about 8pm with a short stop at Malvern to sort out a major service in early December, in total 350 miles in the CX about six and half hours driving.
First impressions, more space than in a trad, but less storage holes etc for odds and sods.
The seating arrangement and the lack of hood flap makes visibility much better for a taller driver
The comfort plus seats are very comfortable, even compared to my Mercedes. and plenty of left leg room even though I didn't have the seat back fully.
The automatic is a revelation in a Morgan, so easy to drive especially in commuter traffic and really quick off the mark when pushed. The automatic isn't as sophisticated and as smooth as a Mercedes auto but I cant complain, love it.
The ride and handling is in a different class, it soaked up the miles. Doing 70 mph on the motorways and 2 hours of commuter traffic on A449 from Malvern to Wolverhampton and it returned over 45 mpg amazingly economical hood up or down. Felt the joints on carriageways, but generally far more compliant than any trad I've ever been in'
Heating is quite powerful but the drafts from doors and the gap left between the side screen, hood and bodywork leaves a lot to be desired for such an expensive car............need to fill some of those gaps. Very much like my trads ,for both the passenger and driver its a tale of two halves, the half next to the transmission tunnel gets toasty warm and the half next to the door, seeks makeshift drafts excluders to take the chill out of the journey. I certainly needed to wear a jacket coming back, were I didin't going down in the Mercedes this morning. which was equally as cold going down.
The headlights are well upto the job and make the journey at night so much safer
The standard blue tooth speaker arrangement was much better than I expected, hood up or down could be heard at 70 mph quite clearly, not the depth of some systems, but much better than any arrangement I experienced in a trad for being able to hear the music quite clearly.
The frost indicator was a bit annoying as it comes up and replaces the MPH digital readout directly in front of you which makes judging speeds harder especially in 30 mph traffic camera zones. Need to see how you can override that.
The wipers are a joke, it's certainly an area that requires a little more investment by Morgan to produce something a little more robust.
So first thoughts are quite simply great car, wished I had done it earlier, looking forward to it being my daily driver and enjoying a Morgan again.Its a very capable car, that on first impressions can take continental tours in its stride, in a more relaxed manner than in a trad. I've enjoyed my trads, but the CX takes it too a whole different level, which will extend my Morgan motoring years much further than most likely otherwise would have been the case.
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Last edited by JohnHarris; 17/11/25 09:45 PM.
