Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Morgan will be making the 3 wheeler again, and selling them in the US




the Morgan Motor Company is officially the largest British-owned carmaker in Britain, and still fashions cars out of ash wood and hand-beaten metal operating out of the same set of red brick sheds its founders erected in 1918.

Weighing 1000 pounds, powered by a fuel-injected American motorcycle engine mated to a Mazda Miata gearbox, making it capable of a 4.5-second dash to 60 mph and a top speed of more than 115 mph, and since it's a 3 wheeler... it's exempt from federal automotive emissions and safety standards. Like its forebears, it's classified as a motorcycle, which means that Morgan's eleven U.S. dealers are taking deposits on this 30-plus-mpg, $45,000 piece of built-to-order mechanical lunacy now.

photos and info from  http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/driven/1112_morgan_3_wheeler_driven/index.html

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous11:44 AM

    and I want it sooooooooo bad...

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