Month: April 2018
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Where does Morgan go after the V8?
If you have driven on the M25 near Heathrow recently you will have seen the latest big car company advertising billboard. It’s a massive double-sided digital screen, 62 feet wide and visible to all 12 lanes of M25 traffic. Now that’s what you call exposure. And the car in the picture? The latest hi-tech BMW…
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The Player cars and big boys toys with Morgan Cars (24 April 2018)
An interview on the stand in Geneva this past March (2018) with Jon Wells, the Director of Design at Morgan. Note the repeated mention that the Plus 8 Anniversary cars and the Aero 8 GT will be the last ‘normally aspirated V8s’ coming from Morgan. I think we will soon see a Turbo or Supercharged…
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Cars On Kiawah (21 April 2018) – Report from the Field
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The Kiawah event really wasn’t a MOGSouth Club event, but with the number of MOGSouth club members showing cars or just attending made it seem so. The show field was adjacent to a golf course but didn’t appear, to me anyway, to be on an actual part of the course. No sand traps or greens…
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Morgan celebrates Plus 8 anniversary in a very big way – 20 April 2018 (journal.classiccars.com)
Historic double-decker Routemaster bus will share the 50th birthday spotlight Morgan Motor Company plans a special way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Plus 8, displaying one of the last active Routemaster buses, also produced in 1968, alongside its own historic vehicles at various events in 2018. “The Routemaster bus is arguably one of…
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Book Report – “Buying and Maintaining a Modern Traditional Morgan” by David Wellings
The new Morgan book, “Buying and Maintaining a Modern Traditional Morgan”, by David Wellings, has just come out, and it is terrific! While most Morgan texts deal with the history of the company that we all know, David writes about innovative ways to tweak your Morgan to make it more “you”. He concentrates primarily on…
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First example of £120,000 Morgan Aero GT rolls off production line (Apr 4, 2018 – www.shropshirestar.com)
The first of the swansong version of the Morgan Aero 8 – the Aero GT – has been built, with just seven more slated for production At this year’s Geneva Motor Show in March, British sports car manufacturer Morgan showed off its latest limited-run vehicle – the Aero GT – and only a few weeks…