I think we are also seeing a transition from trads to CX, I was at a noggin the other week and a few of us were gathered around my car with some being trad owners, and they were all for the transition across,to a CX but found that there weren't enough automatic CX at the moment on the used market None of the those, I was chatting to, wanted a manual CX, as most of them had mobility issues usually around the clutch operation
..It could just be a case of like minded people gathering together like bees around a honey pot, but I wasn't surprised, the direction the discussion took , as they all made the point an automatic will keep them in the brand for much longer.
Your comments endorse my comment on the older brigade being in transition physically, combined with the necessary invention of new young customers more used to electric scooters and manicured nails is the only future for MMC.
So the raw Trads will vanish and hang in the market just like their owners - myself included in (75) there - I won't be selling or transitioning once the manual V8 and 4/4 Sport are not possible that's it for me the end of a wonderful unadulterated experience (thirty something years now) which I have been so lucky in many ways to be able to tap into and still service and repair is all part of (painful) joy of ownership for me.
HFS pure genius.
For me the joy is access to open air motoring which has been the cornerstone of my entire driving life to-date, with a nod to the more basic elements of open air motoring I enjoyed in my youth.......eg manual fold down single skin roof, draughty but initimate and cosy interiors, oceans of wood, the snarl of the engine and exhaust bark just behind your ears. Of course tempered by the wind noise, other exhaust fumes one cannot escape roof down, all still quite raw compared to modern convertibles. The CX for me hasn't dulled the sensation, it's added to it..You still get that ,long bonnet, sitting on the axle driving sensation but just more capable and less tiring They are fast enough, twitchy enough in the wet, to focus and concentrate your mind .
The CX has made me appreciate the Morgan brand far more, and for me it's the journey not the destination, I don't want to be fighting with unassisted parking manoeuvres, heavy clutches in stationary traffic or slow moving traffic, frying in the sun, that's no fun, but more an increasing reality on today's roads.
In my experience once Morgan introduced fuel injection and catalytic convertors with all the necessary associated sensory add ons and much added weight, it ceased to be a pure simple sports car, I first fell in love with.
