Jonny Visits The Morgan Factory - Fifth Gear
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Jonny visits The Morgan Factory, where the cars are built up by people and still uses carpentry. Jonny after helping out around the factory is then lucky enough to drive the new Morgan Three Wheeler.
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I'm italian and i envy you brits so much because you have fantastic cars like these. The fun in a car is the first thing to look when you buy one, and this is the reason i would buy one of this awsome car.
Luca Maini Italy has better cars, just not affordable.
Looks more like some home shed project than a commercial car manufacturer!
I loved the original Morgan three wheelers, wonderful that they brought it back!
I respect the traditional craftsmanship and construction of the Morgan. If they went with a tube chassis and a fiberglass body; us normal folk could afford one. Then again, that might dilute the throwback cool image.
I used to work as a sheet metal worker making these Morgan 3 wheeler body panels and building them onto the ash frame. This is done in Coventry at an engineering company called Premier Group. Some of the panels can be a real pig to fabricate and put together. Premier also make some of the panels and the rear end of Morgan's Aero Supersport. If you search here on youtube 'premier 3 wheeler' the video will come up from when Premier made the 1000th 3 wheeler.
What a breath of fresh air - literally. Must be fun to drive.
What a wonderful car and the Malvern Hills, both are perfect for driving around.
In Normal, Illinois USA near Illinois State University is a one-man body shop. And in that shop are two 3-wheeled Morgans out of the 40's/50's ?? IDN.
The body shop owner also has the original Pratt-Whitney wood ash plugs used for sand molds for pouring the cast iron bits for radial engines for the B-17 and other era aeroplanes that use these engines.
Brilliant video thankyou. Your watch band and rings against the newly painted bonnet made me wince however.....
I'd love one of these.
Really, really love one.
How can anyone not like this car, buy one in a heart beat
You're not buying a car, it's a piece of art and a real deal at current prices of about $80k.
No, the prop shaft does not go to a differential. It's got a single rear wheel, why would it have a differential?
I hear that he said a diff, or a differential. But there's only one powered wheel. Is there a mistake?
Not a patch on Bill Tuer's engines, but not much are. Maybe Alf Hagon's engines.
Great video!
What's not to like about this classic?
My dreaming car, also the aero and the catherham 7
looks boss to drive..
i don't trust people enough to want a handmade car but it's such a neat thing indeed
Bellissime le Morgan
Why do they not employ Bill Tuer as a development engineer?!!
want one
It’s in Malvern I live there
3:42 haha if the owner of that pink seated 3 wheeler had seen this xD
6 years later, I guarantee 100% of those three wheelers in this clip were back in at some point for warranty work. lol
They are surprisingly reliable and have been driven in the desert
@@Mgold6GamingIm afraid they're not. There is always bits falling off em, breaking down or just badly manufactured. Dont get me wrong, I think they are fantastic, I would love one and I love the Morgan brand ( I own a Plus 4 ) but the three wheelers do suffer from plenty of warrantee issues, more than they should IMO
@@bonesshed. Have to agree with you there, bought mine with 1000 miles on the clock after another 1000 the cam belt broke ! A grand to fix it, then the brakes failed, the battery securing bar shorted across to the live teminal and melted the battery. Bits aways falling off or failing !.
Whats the horrible whining noise coming from, Bevel box or the belt?
Bevel box
Ilove morgan3whlar
Shmee wheeler
He said it was the most fun car he had driven in 2016 in an interview.
Stability is four Wheels.
3:53 *Who the FUCK is KATY PRIZE? The WORLD’S YOU TUBE WATCHERS NEED TO KNOW!*
Diff?
BurnDuration I thought the whole point of a 3 wheeler was to eliminate a diff.
It’s actually a bevel box to turn the drive 90 degrees and enable a belt drive/swinging arm to be fitted
Roger Lord thanks. I realized if the three wheeler was FWD, then a front differential would be needed, as the inside front wheel can naturally turn slower in a turn. As it’s a single RWD wheel, a differential wouldn’t be needed.
I want one as well. Not for 50k quids though.
Fifty thousand dollars for a V-Twin made in Wisconsin mated to a Miata transmission, a wooden frame and panel beaten alumin(i)um skin on motorcycle wheels? It's got the cool factor off the charts but I'm sorry, fifty thousand is too damn much. I'd save up and buy one for thirty but fifty? No way.
Seems like fair value for the smile factor, head turning factor, and overall coolness and class
yea certainly a rich mans toy, I would love one myself likewise, but simply not possible at the pricepoint. They seem to be selling them just fine though as they have waiting quite the waiting list at this point. Still, if I could have purchased this instead of my MX5 for the same pricepoint, I would own a M3W instead.
This is in England not Wisconsin.
Just because it has a Harly Engine does not mean its made in Merica...
@@bicyclist2 He said the ENGINE is made in Wisconsin, and he's 100% correct. The engine is made by S&S in La Crosse, WI.
But if you have an accident who is going to repair it? With all that wood I wonder.
God mesin
If you crash directly into something the engine would be screwed :P
Well, it's not the better car to get crashed with...
Just don't crash and you will be ok 😀
More bike, really
Yunik &indonesi promosen
40 grand ? you have to be kidding me.
I am in Lust....
Jonny the very man for kids TV three times a week giving ample days free for
window (tinted) licking at hi's local Das Audi Auto lifestyle emporium , Till gets
the facial hair to join the Ace cafe /Tobacco dock bike shed hip kool with a "K"
"biker" boyz ! Chug chug wobble wobble look mum no hands
Must have awful driving dynamics, though.
I want it 😢