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The iconic HFS Morgan design has been updated with 21st Century technology and classic aircraft styling cues to bring back a more carefree era when driving was fun and every journey an adventure.
Is it a car, a pod racer – or a fighter plane? It’s none of those; it’s a genuine Morgan three-wheeler – not a replica! – and it’s the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
The three-wheeler – immortalised by Peter Sellers in “The Party” – was built, with a variety of big V-twin motorcycle engines, from 1909 to 1953. Now the iconic design has been updated with 21st Century technology and classic aircraft styling cues to bring back a more carefree era when driving was fun and every journey an adventure.
It all starts with a long-stroke, pushrod engine from American custom builder SS, churning out 85kW and loads of low-revving torque. That’s mated to a five-speed Mazda car gearbox, which makes this the first Morgan three-wheeler with a reverse gear, and final drive is by toothed belt to a reinforced rear tyre.
The car weighs only 1100kg so performance – especially when you’re sitting in an open cockpit only 150mm off the deck! – is electrifying: 0-100 in 4.5sec and a top speed of 185km/h.
The tubular-steel chassis and aluminium body have been reinforced to meet modern safety standards, with full roll-bars for driver and passenger – the 2011 three-wheeler is street-legal in Britain and in the US!
But some things haven’t changed – the three-wheeler still holds long-distance speed records for one-litre cars set in the 1930′s so the bullet-shaped, aircraft-style body is unchanged.
A leather-padded cockpit complete with aircraft-style instruments adds to the open-cockpit flying feel.
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A leather-padded cockpit complete with aircraft-style instruments (including a starter button that looks like a bomb release, complete with safety cover) adds to the open-cockpit flying feel, as does the fact that every extremity of the car is visible from the driver’s seat making the three-wheeler remarkably easy to drive – you really do fly it with the seat of your pants.
The Morgan three-wheeler will make its debut this
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