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Just as Dan at Krazy Horse told me.
A CX chassis with smaller Mustang turbo straight 4 & manual box would be interesting.
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Just barreling along Needs to Get Out More!
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I want to an exhibition at the V&A at the weekend about cars & someone had spent many hours producing a large timeline / flowchart with all the manufacturers tracked through the years of car evolution, mergers, buyouts. BUT very sadly Morgan were completely missed off
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Just as Dan at Krazy Horse told me.
A CX chassis with smaller Mustang turbo straight 4 & manual box would be interesting. Agreed, I note that Ford's latest Mustang brochure tones down the 2.3 Ecoboost output to 285 bhp (I had seen 310!), only a tad more than Roadsters 3.7 V6 at 280 bhp.
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”The performance and all-round capability of the Plus Six has proved so good that Morgan bosses regard it as a spiritual successor for the potent Plus 8 of former times, rather than the V6 Roadster.”
Sorry, but I don’t think it will have one tenth of the charisma or character of a traditional Plus 8.
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Morgan, as I love it, is dead. Very sad.
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"Morgan has not confirmed an official end date for production of the traditional steel chassis models but recognises a period where it will be produced alongside CXGeneration models before its discontinuation in 2020." MMC press release https://www.morgan-motor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Morgan-models-2020-announcement.pdf
Series 1 Roadster - the original Plus 6!
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I'm just really glad I am the age I am, which means I have been able to drive a "trad" for many years, renewing every seven to nine years.
It's no criticism of the new chassis, and I wish them nothing but good fortune, but I have no interest in an aluminium chassis car. I loved the driving of a 1930s engineered car, I love all the features which are now classed as problems. I enjoyed coaxing the car round corners, learning to get the best from it, manual gearbox (I know the new autos are faster changing but there's no skill involved, no satisfaction for me - it's a case of input) that feeling that your driving skill was increasing as you got to know the car (it may be an illusion but a great one). I liked old fashioned design of the engineering.....for me the new aluminium chassis cars are a pastiche of the old ones (albeit very lovely pastiches) ......I never really liked the superform wings as much as the old handformed ones, that's how sad I am..........if I want modern performance characteristics I'll choose a modern car.
Luckily for the factory, at my age, I'm a dying out species and so not their future target buyer.
I'm sure they are making the right decision, but they are no longer for me. The end of a long love affair.
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Nick, even though it saddens me that you have to choose past tense. In my eyes with your post you have written one of the most beautiful summaries and homage to the traditional Morgan.
My statement has nothing to do with the desirable success or the necessity of the successor. This post belongs to the traditional Morgan all alone.
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Sorry, but I don’t think it will have one tenth of the charisma or character of a traditional Plus 8.
I have always thought that "character" in a car = faults. Thats why Porsche's are characterless.
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