Category: Miscellaneous News

by Lorne Goldman (published in MSCCC’s Blurb, Spring 2016) At the risk of being controversial…….. Experts, engineers and students of automotive technology all herald the advantages of a stiff chassis. Logic is on their side. Without an absolutely rigid foundation, it is impossible to apply theories or componentry with a certainty of success and identical result.  Without…

Jaguar Land Rover has said some customers in Europe may be boycotting British cars following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. [This may be something to watch.  It will be interesting to see what impact this may have on Morgan’s production in the near future.  Much of the MMC’s production goes outside the UK…

2017 Put-In-Bay Road Races Vintage Racing the Way It Should (And Used) To Be The 2017 Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion (August 27-30) Offers: – Two Days of racing for pre-’73 prod. cars ut to 3.0L, sports racers up to 1.5L & others, – Relaxed event at Put-in-Bay on Ohio’s South Bass Island, where sports cars…

A new version of a much-loved classic Morgan combines character, charm and master craftsmanship, along with a welcome dash of British eccentricity, writes Tiff Needell So Brexit will become a reality and, listening to the tidings of doom, you might be thinking the world is collapsing around us and foreign investment will vanish along with…

2,300 car companies have launched, but only two have hit the century mark Ford, and Morgan. It’s an unlikely pair: the conservative, patriarchal American ur-manufacturer and the family of English handcrafters. What is the secret that has allowed these car companies to be the only ones that have gone through most of the 20th Century…

Limited edition version of sports car maker’s all-electric EV3 costs £52,500 and aims to promote British craftmanship. Just 19 of the UK 1909 Edition cars will be made and sold in Selfridges’ flagship Oxford Street store from the end of November. Photograph: Selfridges/PA The world’s first zero-emissions, all-electric three-wheel car will go on sale in…

At the Paris Motor Show in 1936, a British manufacturer exhibited a compact, two seat sport tourer, built as was conventional at the time around a steel chassis, a wood-framed body, semi-elliptic rear suspension, an overhead inlet, side exhaust valve engine and using an unusual sliding pillar front suspension. Unusually for a British sports car…

Selfridges is teaming up with Malvern-based car manufacturer, Morgan, to celebrate the launch of the its first zero emission, all-electric car. With Morgan about to launch the EV3 and Selfridges motoring ahead with its drive to put sustainability at the core of its business, the historic firms are now set to collaborate. Selfridges and Morgan…