Quote "The appeal of the Trad is that people talk of enjoying driving down a country lane at sensible speeds because it wont do much more".
That may be way the Sunday Lunchers talk Howard.
BUT, 18 years experiencing a Roadster says otherwise. Yes there are lots of fancy cars with bragging rights. Most are twice or three times as heavy as a Trad. So when a Plus4 Trad has, say 165bhp, any fancy car will need 330bhp to be the equivalent, and often more. Even a Polo is around 1400kg, against the sub 900kg of a Trad.
And then these lardy cars are also loaded up with driver aids to keep them on the road. and most drivers are not capable of switching off the aids, and staying alive. Driver aids slow these cars down, I've seen this so often in the Highlands and on the Fosse Way. Its always the M3/4/5 brigade who set off like a stabbed rat, when they see a Morgan in the mirror, and I just stay at a respectable distance, but they don't leave me behind. Trads corner flat. Trads are well balanced. They don't squirm. And public roads are not race tracks. When a Roadster can do the dash to 60 in under 5secs, even a fancy 3.5sec dash will not show on the road because a second and a bit in five seconds is irrelevant.
The beauty of a Trad is that very fact that people with fancy cars, and no Morgan experience, think that Morgans can't deliver, and that's what makes them fun.
Sorry Dave but there is a bit of self deception there! I will accept that on a smooth racing track, Morgan performance is respectable if not good. But point one of the non ally generation down a potholed UK B road with the body flexing and the wheel writhing in your hands and you wont keep up with an equally well driven modern car. Now the CX is a different issue, at least at under 80mph.
I have driven a variety of Trads and they are not cars that I would trty to thrash in the way that I used to with my Lotus. They are cars for a bimble in the sunshine.. All IMO of course
