H.F.S. Morgan founded the Morgan Motor Company in 1909, and the firm builds its cars in Malvern, England, to this day. Over that time, Morgan cars have used motorcycle V-twins, Ford side-valve fours, Triumph engines, BMW V8s and a Ford inline-three.
The seven Morgan cars below span 1932 to 2022. Each one looks like nothing else in a parking lot, and each also has the record to back up the attention it gets.
1. 1932–1939 Morgan Super Sport, one of the Morgan cars on three wheels
The Super Sport put two wheels up front, one at the back and an air-cooled V-twin out ahead of the driver. Morgan had favored J.A.P. engines since 1910, but many early-1930s sports trikes ran 990cc Matchless twins. In 1932, a single-chain three-speed gearbox with reverse replaced the old twin-chain drive.
By 1934, the Super Sport could reach 70 mph, a speed Curbside Classic calls “scary enough.” Morgan made an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Super Sports between 1932 and 1939. Output then fell year by year until the eve of World War II.
2. 1934–1952 Morgan F-Type
Morgan launched the F-Type in 1934 to revive interest in its cheaper three-wheelers. Instead of a motorcycle twin hanging out front, it used Ford Y Type side-valve power tucked behind a radiator. It also sat on a new pressed-steel chassis under a revamped body.
The result looked more like a small car than a trike, though it kept the single rear wheel. According to the same Curbside Classic history, the F-Type stayed in production until 1952. After that, Morgan dropped three-wheelers, seemingly for good.
3. 1961 Morgan Plus 4 Super Sports
Chris Lawrence made his name in a tuned Plus 4 before this model existed. In 1959, he won 19 of 22 races and took the National Championship for Production Sports Cars. That October, he founded Lawrence Tune to sell performance parts to other Morgan owners.
For 1961, Lawrence supplied Morgan with a batch of tuned Triumph TR engines for the limited-edition Super Sports, Silodrome reports. The work included a gas-flowed head, higher compression, a special camshaft, twin Webers and a four-branch exhaust manifold. As a result, output rose to 115 hp with the TR3 engine or 125 hp with the TR4. In full race trim, the TR4 unit could make 150 hp.
4. 1963 Morgan Plus 4 Plus
Morgan surprised the 1963 Earls Court Motor Show with a closed coupe that looked nothing like its other cars. Instead of steel, E.B. Plastics supplied a fiberglass body, reinforced with steel tubing and structural plywood. Underneath, it still used a standard Plus 4 chassis and a 110-hp four lifted from the Triumph TR4A.
However, traditional buyers disliked the modern shape, and newcomers balked at the old-fashioned underpinnings. Morgan made just 26 over four years, according to Hyman Ltd’s history of the model. Today, that commercial failure ranks as a holy grail among the Malvern firm’s cars.
5. 2004 Morgan Roadster
In 2004, Morgan replaced its outgoing V8 car with the Roadster. Power came from a 2,967cc Ford Duratec V6, the engine from the Mondeo ST220, rated at 223 bhp. Morgan then bolted it to a Jaguar S-Type five-speed manual with a bell housing of its own design.
The rest stayed traditional, with aluminum coachwork beaten over an ash wood frame. Supercars.net lists a dry weight of 940 kg (2,073 lbs) and 206 lb-ft of torque at 4,900 rpm. It also quotes 0–100 km/h in 4.9 seconds.
6. 2008 Morgan AeroMax
The AeroMax began as a concept at the 2005 Geneva motor show, drawn by a 21-year-old design student, Matthew Humphries. Mechanically, the coupe matched the Aero roadster. In other words, it used a 4.4-liter BMW V8 and a six-speed ZF gearbox.
Morgan committed to just 100 cars, built from January 2008 at one to two a week, Autocar reported. Prices started at around £94,000 plus VAT, or at least £110,450 in total. In return, buyers got 0–60 mph in under five seconds and a top speed of over 150 mph.
7. 2022 Morgan Super 3
Morgan revealed the Super 3 in February 2022, bringing three wheels back to the lineup once again. Specifically, it replaced the earlier 3 Wheeler. It is also the first Morgan to use monocoque construction.
Power comes from Ford’s naturally aspirated 1.5-liter inline-three, with 118 hp and 110 lb-ft, through a five-speed manual from the Mazda Miata, Ford Authority reported. With about 1,400 pounds to move, it reaches 62 mph in 7 seconds and tops out at 130 mph. In the UK, prices started at £34,995.83.
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