3 SPIRIT
IT’S A THREE-WHEELED MORGAN, but not a Morgan 3 Wheeler, the open sports car with front tyres that wouldn’t look too out of place on a mountain bike. We’ve jumped forward decades from the era so cleverly and enjoyably evoked by this car’s predecessor. The Roaring Twenties have become… well, we might have just about reached 1950. This is the brave new frontier of the Morgan Super 3.
As I wait to turn into Pickersleigh Road and head out into the morning Malvern traffic, the Super 3’s indicator ticks loudly, like an antique carriage clock on the drawing room mantelpiece of an English stately home. How appropriate for what is probably the most eccentrically British new car on sale, latest in a vehicle lineage that shouldn’t really make sense in many ways, but has a fanatical following amongst owners and enthusiasts all the same.
As we detailed back in 296, the Super 3 is a very different machine to its predecessor; a little less Biggles, a little more Dan Dare. Two key factors are at play here:
