Morgan has progressed out of the Stone Age and into the modern world

Morgan has released a new flagship car, the Supersport, announced by automotive journalist Richard Hammond. Yes, it lives up to its name, kinda. Dont worry, its not an EV.

This, £85 thousand British sports car is styled to look classic and classy, like your grandparents’ special china dinner set that only comes out at Christmas. However, it is a luxury automobile to drive. This car is not a car you pop in your shed and SORN over the winter like that china set in the cupboard. No, you drive this car every day of the week, in all seasons.

This car only tips the weighing scales at 1.1 tons but produces 335 bhp. Morgan and BMW’s partnership continues, using the 3.0 twin turbo straight six engine used in the Z4, Supra and various other M cars (Not the official M cars, just the M cars that BMW make themselves)

Morgan has always made their cars look similar but slightly different at the same time. All of them can be placed in the set of The Sound of Music, but this Supersport is more suitable for All Creatures, Great and Small. A 1940s TV show filmed using modern-day technology. What my poor analogy is trying to say is that the Morgan Supersport keeps all its traditional features but with a modern twist. The bonnet is still long, and the headlights are still around, but they have LED lights instead of the older bulbs.

Enough of the boring stuff, and to the big question: Is this car beautiful? From the front, it’s impeccable—the curves, the lines, the wheel arches, simply perfection. From the back, it looks a bit like the front of a Lamborghini Gallardo. As I would describe it, a cheese wedge. In the modern world, car companies don’t seem to know when to stop designing their cars, like the Toyota CHR. But in Morgans case: it looks, like they forgot to design the back end.

Lastly, the one thing that ruins it for me is that you cannot purchase this car in a manual. Isn’t this car all about the experience of driving, the rawness and control of the car, and you won’t be able to push the clutch down to change gears or change down when you want to listen to the straight-six BMW? as Martin Brundle would say ‘I haven’t been this disappointed since Shrek 2’