I like the prior RIP 3 wheeler with the Harley twin air cooled but at least the 3 wheeler is still around - albeit with a 3 cylinder Ford engine, 5 spd Miata trans and a CUP holder! Note the side luggage carrier for your dog or unruly child. Wait NO side pipes to burn your calves or heat up a cup of tea?
Morgan Super 3 First Drive: Supercar Cred Without the Supercar Price (motortrend.com)
Long live Britania!
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My one friend has a 2013 3-wheeler, and my other friend has a 2016 3-wheeler. I really love them. I recall being with my buddy when he took delivery of his 2016, and telling him, why would you purchase such an impractical car? I later purchased a speedster, which is only a few more notches up on the practical scale.
With all that said, I truly love the S&S front mounted engine M3W. An incredibly unique driving experience. And looks nothing like anything on the road.
I went for a drive with both of them.....they were riding behind me. Each time I caught a glimpse of them in my rearview mirror, I couldn't help but think about being tailed by a couple of Spitfires.
The green one, the 2013, swapped out the headlamps with a larger headlamp more in tune to those found in a 1920s-early 30s autos. I really like that change. He also added the Brooklands windscreen.
The blue (orange interior) has the updated dash design for the 2016 up models.
@Kevin - Bay Area posted:My one friend has a 2013 3-wheeler, and my other friend has a 2016 3-wheeler. I really love them. I recall being with my buddy when he took delivery of his 2016, and telling him, why would you purchase such an impractical car? I later purchased a speedster, which is only a few more notches up on the practical scale.
With all that said, I truly love the S&S front mounted engine M3W. An incredibly unique driving experience. And looks nothing like anything on the road.
I went for a drive with both of them.....they were riding behind me. Each time I caught a glimpse of them in my rearview mirror, I couldn't help but think about being tailed by a couple of Spitfires.
That has been the chief complaint regarding the redesign, the elimination of the front mounted engine.
@LI-Rick posted:That and the wheels are horrendous! Ruined a beautiful car.
I definitely think the wires fit the previous version. I'm just not sure how they would have looked on this model. @Sacto Mitch If it isn't difficult or time consuming would you mind photoshopping the old rim/tire combo onto this new model so we can see if they would have worked? I have zero PS skills.
I'd not seen the redesigned Morgan 3.
I wish i still hadn't.
They're not as impractical as the Polaris Slingshot and I'd drive the snot out of that for a weekend or two 
@Sacto Mitch posted:.
@Robert M , et al, this is from the Morgan configurator (with wire wheels borrowed from the Plus4).
Stylistically, they seem to work, so you wonder why they're not an option. Maybe there's a conflict with the hubs, the cycle fenders, or the brakes?
Definitely better. The included wheels look like 1984 Corvette.
So, Morgan (the company who never changes anything) took something ridiculously cool and retro and unique and turned it into something that looks suspiciously like an amphibious car from the 50s, designed and constructed in Soviet-era Poland, with aluminum pizza pans for wheels.
Did I miss something in the news? Is weed legal in Britain?
@Stan Galat posted:Did I miss something in the news? Is weed legal in Britain?
No. Neither is terrorism but you still find plenty of it.
For a bleeding heart, soft headed, tolerant of everything liberal, it's funny that I just can't can't like 3 wheeled vehicles.
Maybe it's my OCD or something, but they just look wrong!
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From the start, the three was designed as a way around the rules.
For a long time, the previous model continued that tradition — the only Mogey legal for sale in the US because, technically, it wasn't a 'car'.
But the rules have finally caught up. There was no way the old steam punkish air-cooled motorcycle engine (or any other air-cooled engine) was gonna pass the coming Euro standards. Any other company would have faced facts, dropped the concept altogether, and moved on. To their credit, I think, Morgan was determined to keep the hundred-year-old in-your-face Spitfire-on-wheels alive. They started with what must have been an expensive clean slate, built around a Ford three-cylinder engine designed from the ground up to comply (DOHC, turbo, hybrid port and direct injection, etc. etc.).
I think the three is their best-selling model, so they did have some fiduciary incentive to have a go. This new thing ain't as funky as the old, but it's still got way more character than anything Jaguar or Bentley or Aston Martin or anyone else who is trying to be a 'manufacturer' is doing — on a development budget that's a fraction of what the other guys can spend.
Hey, it's 2022. The future is bleak. This is what passes for scandalous fun today.
Enjoy it while you still can.
There'll always be a Morgan
And Morgan shall be free
If Morgan means as much to you
As Morgan means to me
.
There are times when being scrawny like me has its advantages. I'd drive it - just not in Charleston traffic.
Well I really like it but weather permitting vehicles are not my kind of excursion cars for where I live and never mind trying to get into such a tube car.
Yes, they are slightly uglier than the original...he says with polished restraint.
But I guess Mitch has the right take on it.
@Gordon Nichols posted:"Image not found", Stan
Weird. I did it as an attachment and everything. No matter, it was nothing of consequence.
Entire post deleted.
I don't know what this car is, and it looks like a BMW engine in front, but what really caught my eye from years ago was the Jack Russell up in the Crow's Nest:
Here's our late pups. Starting when Murphy (on the right) was about a year old he would stand on my shoulders while I walked around, like a little mountain goat. He preferred that, instead of a shopping cart. We were quite the pair.
@Gordon Nichols, I don't remember the name, but that is a Citroen 2CV chassis and drivetrain. There has been one at Carlisle a number of times. I believe they were available in 3 and 4 wheeled versions.
@Lane Anderson posted:@Gordon Nichols, I don't remember the name, but that is a Citroen 2CV chassis and drivetrain. There has been one at Carlisle a number of times. I believe they were available in 3 and 4 wheeled versions.
I believe it's a Burton. That one in Gordo's post appears to be modified to have an open wheel, although with fenders, look to it and a cut down windscreen.
I do love a car with a crow's nest.
@Lane Anderson posted:There are times when being scrawny like me has its advantages. I'd drive it - just not in Charleston traffic.
When I went to the Isle of Man TT in 2007, I was surprised how many Morgan 3 wheelers and Lotus/Westfield 7’s were on the road. Perfect environment for them.
The more I see of this the more I like it.
great vid
@dlearl476 posted:The more I see of this the more I like it.
I refer the look of the previous model but it had a number of cons with the biggest one being flat repair. Not many places have the tooling to remove that tire. However, I really like the new model as well. I have spec'd one out a few times looking for just the right look but at a price just as much as my 2023 Porsche 718 it isn't very feasible.
