Pininfarina meets the world’s most eccentric automaker, and produces a banger with traditional styling reimagined in a strikingly modern way.
The 2024 Morgan Midsummer is the latest car to emerge from what, by Morgan standards, has been a mad rush of new vehicle engineering and development over the past five years. For decades time moved differently at Morgan Motor Company. Founded in 1909, the eccentric British automaker had long hand-built sports cars that seemed indifferent to fad or fashion or even technical advancement.
And while the Midsummer is a car that is still recognizably a Morgan in the Plus Four and Plus Six tradition, it is a Morgan flavored with an unmistakably Italian elegance, with fuller, more flowing fenders and a longer, more tapered tail. The grille is more vertical, and the headlights thrust further forward, emphasizing the already short front overhang. Most of the bodywork is hand-formed aluminum, and each set of panels takes 250 hours to complete.
The exposed wood is a nod to Morgan’s previous tradition of wrapping its lightweight aluminum bodywork around a wooden frame, and is made from nine individually crafted sections made from 0.6 mm laminates of teak. The section over the dash comprises no fewer than 126 laminate layers, while the door tops comprise 120 layers. The entire structure takes 30 hours to fabricate.
With a target weight of less than 2,300 pounds, the Midsummer should be at least as quick as the regular Plus Six, which means a 0-to-60-mph acceleration time of about 4.0 seconds and a top speed of about 160 mph. Though not homologated for sale in the U.S.
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