Morgan Plus 8 - the roadster rocket with the steam engine look of the age
Summary
Morgan built the Plus 8 with the Rover V8 engine from 1968 to 2004, making it the most successful product in the company's history. The powerful engine, together with the tight and light pre-war bodywork, ensured driving performance that is still impressive today and, together with the attractive exterior, ensured a large fan base. This report portrays a Morgan Plus 8 from 1973 and tells the story of the V8 model in detail, supplemented by archive material and the original sales brochure as well as other documents.
This article contains the following chapters
- Accelerated evolution
- Technology boost with undertones
- Breathtaking performance
- Heads or tails?
- Growth in all dimensions
- The most successful product from Malvern Link
- A veritable classic car
- Past and present
- The Über-Morgan
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 9min
Preview (beginning of the article)
"Grunt" is a word that the English like to use when describing large-volume and powerfully motorized sports cars. The Morgan Plus 8 is perhaps the perfect incarnation of "grunt", because rarely before has a roadster with such a primitive appearance and such a powerful growl been so impressively driven against the elite of super sports cars in terms of acceleration. For years, the Morgan Plus 8 was one of the fastest accelerating cars in England. However, the traditional manufacturer Morgan had to make a number of innovations before it even got that far, and was generally quite skeptical of such innovations.
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