Driven Morgan 3 Wheeler: A twenty-first-century interpretation of a twentieth-century idea

摘要

TRUTH BEING STRANGER than fiction, the Morgan Motor Company is officially the largest British-owned carmaker in Britain. Pretty weird stuff for a company that still fashions cars out of ash wood and hand-beaten metal and still operates out of the same set of red brick sheds its founders, an Anglican prebendary and his son, erected in 1918. Even funnier, Morgan has recently reached back into its Edwardian playbook to introduce a new model, the 3 Wheeler, inspired by one of its earliest product lines. It has negligible weather protection, weighs but a tea service or two over 1000 pounds, and is 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. Most amusing of all, however, is that this new machine is coming to these heavily regulated shores. How could that be?