The Morgan 3-wheeler returns! We drive Malvern's new Super 3
Gone is the V-twin from the 3-WheelerThe new Morgan Super 3 replaces a bike engine for a car one, but there’s so much more to this brilliant feel good sports-, er, trike than a simple powertrain swapYes, the old S&S motorbike-derived V-twin found in the 3-Wheeler launched in 2011 has gone, a victim of tightening emissions regs. The new Super 3 gets a 1.5-liter inline three built in India for the local market. Woah, stay with me, it’s not as bad as it sounds.
Morgan says zero to 62mph takes around 7sec, though it feels much quicker, and based on our crude timing attempts,quicker, meaning it should be broadly as rapid as the old car against the clock, not that that matters. The top speed 130mph, but we’ll take Morgan’s word for it: by 80 mph things are more than exciting enough, and handily, given its the speed limit on most UK country roads, 50-60 mph is actually its optimum cruising speed.
There’s also a hint of the stillborn EV3 – the electric 3 Wheeler Morgan showed in concept form in 2016, but canned the development of two years later. That idea will make a return around the middle of this decade though: the latest car’s all-new aluminium chassis has been designed with multiple energy sources in mind.Not here, Mog fans.
You also get double wishbone suspension instead of the ancient sliding pillar setup, plus wider boots up front wrapped around stylish disc-style wheels, rather than wire rims. That means the suspension copes much better with bumps than before, and there’s significantly more grip from the front end, which you get to feel through the beautifully direct steering.You’re excused.
They also gave them more places to store things, including under the flip-up rear canopy, and on the side pods, via special bungee attachments or panniers. You can even fit it with an unobtrusive satellite navigation system designed for motorbikes. You’d still have to be mad to embark on a multi-country trip in one. But now you can be slightly less mad.Losing the bike engine could have been a disaster, at a stroke spoiling the best thing about the Super 3.
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