Hi all,
A bit of an update on my search for a Plus Six and getting back into a Morgan. In a nutshell it has NOT happened!
I tested 3 Morgan Plus Six's in Sept and Oct time last year and two things really got me to where I am now.
1. I loved the BMW engine (and gearbox TBH) - it is smooth, very powerful, docile but has genuine character (you can actually smell it getting hot via the bonnet vents when driving!)
2. The build quality of the Morgan product was pretty poor. Chroming on mirror's pitted and needing repalcing, hood studs broken and interior mirror that was useless, windscreen frames that had paint bubbling and the body's of two of the Six's had flaky paint from alu corrosion. One Plus Six also had a rad leak (on its 4th replacement but booked into Morgan) and two had very squeaky brakes and suspension creaks.
At every potential sale, two private and one a Dealer the response to concerns I had was "it is a Morgan/low volume car manufacturer, what do you expect?". Therefore, could I justify spending £55k plus and be content with 'poor quality' and the answer was NO.
OK the mirrors and windscreen frame could quite easily be sorted but the bubbles on the bodywork, would have been expensive to sort and these were low mileage cars.
So to come clean what did I buy?
I purchased a new model BMW Z4 same 3 ltr turbo engine as the Plus Six and with under 11k miles was also half the price (secondhand) of one of Morgan's I tried. The BMW product and experience so far, so good.
Therefore, after my 3.0 Roadster experience a few years ago, I cannot see me re-joining the Morgan ranks...shame really, I so wanted to like it?
