It’s easy to get lost in the detail of the new Morgan Super 3. This is the replacement for the 3 Wheeler that arrived a decade ago and whose success seemingly took its maker by surprise. Morgan expected it to be a niche vehicle even by its own standards. Instead, more than 2500 left the Malvern factory.
Owners use them in two distinct ways, Morgan finds. The traditional owner jaunts around the country on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Then there are those who use them like adventure motorbikes: loading them up with kit, cladding themselves in waterproofs and heading towards the horizon with repurposed motorbike bags and luggage, whatever the conditions.
The Super 3 is meant to more easily accommodate those people as well as retaining the appeal for the traditionalist – and I think it does both spectacularly.
There was a time when Morgan – sometimes proudly the most traditional of car makers – was reluctant to try anything it hadn’t done before. That time certainly isn’t now, although I believe it’s also true that a three-wheeleris an edgier, more flamboyant product that allows the company to exercise more creative flair.