The best of both worlds
The English Morgan and the Italian Pininfarina have found each other. Meet the Morgan Midsummer: an exclusive combination of English charm and Italian design.
In the corner of car land where the richest on earth have the pleasure of shopping, Morgan has parked a new model: the Midsummer. The Morgan Midsummer is a model limited to fifty pieces that was created in close collaboration with the Italian design house Pininfarina. Just like the Plus Six, the Midsummer is built around Morgan’s aluminum CX Generation platform and, like that car, has a blown inline six from BMW in the front. However, that is not the biggest attraction of the Midsummer, that is its design.
From every angle, the Midsummer is a visual treat.
The Midsummer is immediately recognizable as Morgan. Just look at its round headlights and the front and rear screens that protrude far from the body. However, the concrete interpretation of the design is new. The open roadster has two tiny windscreens and, according to Pininfarina, should breathe the atmosphere of roadsters from the late 1930s and early 1940s. The visible woodwork is striking. We notice it around the windscreens, but the normally low doors have also been enriched with a wooden frame. It is striking how the Midsummer looks simultaneously modern despite its classic lines. The car stands on lightweight 19-inch alloys that fill the large Morgan wheel arches. Also interesting: Morgan has consciously opted for tires with a relatively high sidewall compared to the size of the wheel and says it will use a similar tire-to-wheel ratio on its future models.
Morgan and Pininfarina are happy to mention how much work goes into the Midsummer, which weighs just 1,000 kilos. The woodwork used would consist of more than a hundred layers of teak wood. And according to both companies, the woodwork at the top of the dashboard is made of 126 layers of teak, while the parts in the doors consist of 100 layers. A total of 83 square meters (!) of woodwork has been incorporated into each Midsummer. According to Morgan, the aluminum sheet metal parts were hammered by hand, which involved more than 250 man hours per car.
Morgan will build fifty copies of the Midsummer. They have all already been forgiven.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl