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The relaunched classic boasts old-school beauty – and breathtaking speed When jovial business guru the late John Harvey-Jones visited the Morgan Motor Company in 1990 for the BBC’s Troubleshooter show, he declared the firm “almost automatically doomed” due to its outmoded manufacturing and inability to edge production beyond a quaint nine-and-a-half vehicles per week. The waiting…

This week marks a historic moment for Morgan Motor Company, as the boutique sports car manufacturer has made its last-ever steel chassis. Introduced in 1936, the steel chassis has been produced continuously ever since, making it the longest-ever running production car architecture. But even a company as traditional as Morgan must keep up with the…

(13 June 2020 / https://www.barrons.com/) The Morgan Motor Company is  a fascinating remnant of a once-thriving British car industry. Morgan was founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan, whose first product was the delightfully wacky Morgan Three Wheeler, a car that the company put back into production in 2011 after 50 years away. Morgan has sold more than…

[This is a fairly positive report about the new CX Chassis’d Plus 4. The rumor is that this Plus 4 will come to the US as a component car. I am not sure when. Talk to the dealers if you are interested. Cheers, Mark]

Like other UK based car factories, Morgan Motors stopped production back at the end of March to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. This week the company has resumed production at its Malvern Hills based factory on Monday 12th May, bit in a limited fashion, only twenty staff have returned back to work. “This very small…

Morgan in 2020 | Reasons to be cheerful By Sam Sheehan / April 9, 2020 /www.pistonheads Morgan is probably one of very few British companies that still has a spring in its step during lockdown. The Malvern firm’s first big international launch for the Plus Four has had to be postponed due to the disruption…

By Bob Sorokanich, April 6, 2020, https://www.roadandtrack.com/  Photos by Tony Harmer  On a stunning road trip to the Gamble House, we rediscover the joy of doing things the old way. The gamble house is the greatest surviving example of American Arts and Crafts-style architecture, and it was saved by an offhand comment. Completed in 1909,…

BY CHRIS POLLITT April 12, 2020 (https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/) Photography by Bruce Holder The lead shot for this feature wasn’t easy to get. A close-knit tracking shot is only ever millimetres away from looking like a Hollywood car crash, so you have to have your wits about you. On this occasion, that was somewhat difficult. There was a Morgan…

The principles of family have defined the Morgan Motor Company for generations. We’re not just talking about H.F.S Morgan – who founded the company 111 years ago – and his descendants, but the wider Morgan family: our workforce, our customers, our dealerships and our fans around the world. To these people, few things are more…

The roadster hasn’t changed much over seven decades — that goes for this send-off run, too It would appear that the demand is still there for the traditional ladder frame cars so the MMC, not wanting to miss out on a good thing, will make a few more . . . the 70th Anniversary Plus…