Category: Miscellaneous News
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Trouble in Paradise – Palm Beach Morgan Dealer in Hot Water
Photo Courtesy www.bizjournals.com [Reports in the press indicate that there are problems with the South Florida Morgan dealer Chariots of Palm Beach. The truth of the matter has not yet been determined, and I certainly don’t want to jump to conclusions. This is something that will eventually be sorted out by the courts. As always be…
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Thousands Gather for Morgan’s Inaugural Run for the Hills (justbritish.com)
Morgan Motor Company celebrated over a century of innovation and craftsmanship at the inaugural Run For The Hills event last weekend (26th & 27th August) with 1000’s of Morgans from a 108-year history returning home to Malvern. Held at the Malvern Three Counties Showground in association with the Morgan Sports Car Club, Morgan owners and aficionados…
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‘Want wind-in-the-hair fun and a trip to a gentler time? Nothing beats a Morgan’ (www.carmagazine.co.uk)
When the sun shines, a young man’s fancy turns to sports cars. So this (old) man heads to Malvern Link, home of Morgan, and to the driver’s seat of a 4/4, the world’s oldest new car, now in its 81st year of production. Now of course Porsches and Ferraris go faster, Mazda MX-5s are sweeter to drive and…
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2018 Morgan 4/4 – First Drive Review (www.caranddriver.com)
Pretty much an Edwardian Miata. The idea of giving cars a rapid model cycle and built-in obsolescence was born in the U.S., but it has long since spread to the rest of the world. Few mainstream models are still in production by the time the earliest versions of a generation reach their eighth birthdays,…
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Morgan’s latest car being made in Coventry (www.coventrytelegraph.net)
RDM Group has been appointed to manufacture and assemble the EV3 Junior. Morgan’s latest model is being made in Coventry it has been revealed. The Morgan Motor Company might be synonymous with Malvern but a new partnership with a fast-growing Coventry automotive firm will see an electric Morgan vehicle built in the city for the…
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Maker of ‘coaches’ bets at once on digital thread and work done by hand (http://advancedmanufacturing.org)
Morgan Motor relies heavily on humans to manufacture its retro cars, but it leaves nothing to chance [Just another ‘proof statement’ that the MMC is not stagnant in its methods or processes. Something that gives me some assurance that they will continue for some time. Mark] Morgan Motor Company, which HFS Morgan established in 1909…
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Thousands Gather for Morgan’s Inaugural Run for the Hills (www.justbritish.com)
Morgan Motor Company celebrated over a century of innovation and craftsmanship at the inaugural Run For The Hills event [August 26 – August 27] with 1000’s of Morgans from a 108-year history returning home to Malvern. Held at the Malvern Three Counties Showground in association with the Morgan Sports Car Club, Morgan owners and aficionados from around the world gathered…
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British EV Maker Seeks Crowdfunding (Alcraft Motor Company, IndieGoGo)
[This is the first I have heard of this. I don’t know if Charles Morgan is still with Morgan or if he has left for this venture. (Matt Humphies left Morgan in 2013) It appears to me that the renderings have the flavor of the Range Rover Evoque . . . Cheers, Mark] The company…
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SPORTS CARS IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (www.mossmotoring.com)
There have been a lot of distressing items in the news lately about the future of the automobile as we know it and while we cannot predict with much accuracy what will transpire in the years to come, we are sure that it will be a different world from the one that we have known…
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Roadster Reborn – 2005 Morgan Roadster (Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car)
[This is an older article however it features a MOGSouth Member, Ellis King, so we just have to have it posted on the web site. Enjoy. Mark] When people talk about sports car “purity,” we usually roll our eyes and simply embrace the notion that if a car is fun, it’s fun. Period. But the…
