The Morgan 3 Wheeler back to the future! - Hardcover

Peter Dron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845847636 ISBN 13: 9781845847630

Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

In the early years of the 21st century, the Morgan Motor Company decided to return to the configuration of its origins, with a new 3 Wheeler. One reason for this decision was that it could no longer sell its four-wheelers in the USA, due to the costs of meeting increasingly restrictive legislation on emissions and accident safety becoming prohibitive for a small manufacturer. The 3 Wheeler, classed as a motorcycle, bypasses these complex requirements. By coincidence, an American three-wheeler, the Liberty Ace (itself a modernised recreation of the V-Twin Morgan Super Sports of the 1930s) was selected as the starting point. Morgan then designed and engineered the new model in an astonishingly short period. The management thought it might sell a few hundred 3 Wheelers; however, orders flooded in after its launch at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, leading to considerable complications. This is the story of how all that happened and how an eccentric sports car with an American engine and a Japanese gearbox is, nevertheless, quintessentially English.

About this title

Review:

told with the honesty of an actual owner, it is a personal story as well as a factual one! [...] an essential read that will be enjoyed by two, three and four-wheeled aficionados alike, and it will have you constantly turning its pages for years to come ...Highly recommended, beautifully produced and well adding to your book collection --Ian Kerr

written with Peter Dron's typical wit and style ... funny, informative and occasionally sad ... [has] an authenticity and page-turning quality sometimes lacking in rivals --Daily Telegraph (Andrew English)

Beautifully produced ... detailed ... a complete in-depth look at the new Morgan 3 Wheeler. --tkc (Totalkitcar)

About the Author:

Peter Dron has worked as a writer and contributor to motoring magazines for almost four decades. A regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph s Motoring section, his weekly column ran for seven years, during which time he wrote numerous features and new car appraisals as well as contributing to many other publications. From 1976-83, he worked at Motor magazine, starting as a road tester, and ending as its feature editor, and before this, he was editor of Fast Lane magazine, launching the magazine in 1984, and leaving in 1991. Peter has also been a successful racing driver ... successful in the sense that it was entirely at the expense of other people!

About this edition

• Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1845847636
• ISBN 13: 9781845847630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144