Most people who do have fond memories of those cars the first time around are now smart enough to know better now in terms of marketing led blather and will just measure the car by it's value. Younger people have little real understanding of the pivotal role they played in their parents youth and hence little reason to value them?
Mind you the alternatives of ID-3 and other non words seem equally blah. We should have a competition to find the best new names that could be applied to models!
Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.
I think I read many years back that whatever team might make up the names at Ford or wherever, had thought of Caprini, which was modified when they discovered that was the word for animal poop in some other language....? Might have been just a story, but if true, perhaps more applicable to the idea of modern ford making use of it`s ancestors name..?
Typing of auctions, this is a recent report which has a Morgan in the listings as well as other rather interesting cars..
If interested in current trends in the UK auction scene relative to potentially interesting vehicles, might be worth beaming up this vid...?
That was very interesting, thanks for posting. I agree with his assessment that the "crash" is a realignment.
The lovely genuine 3-litre Bentley was featured in the auction preview section of The Automobile magazine this month. The highest bid of £97K was way under the already low estimate of £120K. It makes me just very slightly excited that my budget might yet stretch to a W.O. before I drop off my perch!
