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The Morgan 3Wheeler is a stupid idea. It's a modern interpretation of an iffy premise from a time when smoking was considered a perfectly acceptable hobby and crash safety involved nothing more than a strong desire to be thrown clear. It's not even a car, for goodness' sake. It has one too few wheels, is several cylinders short of the usual number and does without doors, a windscreen, heater, radio, or any of the other things that make driving bearable.
Top Gear drives the Morgan 3Wheeler
By modern standards, it isn't fast, has a quaint attitude to cornering and uses a V-twin engine that delivers torque like a sledgehammer: one massive thud, and then it's all over. And yet this literally pointless grown-up tricycle is an utter joy, precisely because of its deficiencies rather than in spite of them. You have to drive a 3Wheeler, immerse yourself in the experience, invite the entire world into your exposed, noisy, furious explosion of wind-whipped hair and manic grinning. It has guts, emotion and vitality. Something you don't get in cars twice as fast. Less, in this case, really does equal more.
The Morgan 3Wheeler. It's not a car. But it is unique. And that makes it very special.
Read this and much much more in our huge new Awards issue of TopGear magazine, on sale now
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MercedesSLS_AMG commented on this article
at 12:23 pm on 27 December 2011
Best award ever, not-a-car car of the year???
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8thgear commented on this article
at 01:50 pm on 27 December 2011
Seen these in action at TG live. Cool indeed, not that I'd want to own one though.
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jeffy commented on this article
at 02:21 pm on 27 December 2011
Ahh, the Morgan 3-wheeler - the Brough Superior of 3-wheeled antics.
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Astonkindofman commented on this article
at 07:46 pm on 27 December 2011
Man that thing is cool looking!
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rosko commented on this article
at 10:14 am on 28 December 2011
If, like me, you can't afford a Morgan trike, why not look at the Lomax, a Citroen 2CV based trike kit, sadly no longer available new, but there are plenty of pre-loved examples out there. They are easily maintained, quite quick in standard 30 BHP form and relatively easy to modify with Guzzi or BMW engines - cheap to run, very impractical but great fun, I love mine!
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