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AUTOS: Morgan 4/4 Marks 75 Years
The very traditional British sports car stays true to the original in style and substance.
High Gear Media  | http://www.highgearmedia.com/  |  Posted December 30, 2011   Malvern Link, GB
The Morgan 4/4 has stayed true to the traditional concept of a British sports car for 75 years. (Photo: Morgan)
The Morgan 4/4 has been produced by the boutique British car manufacturer since 1936, making the iconic British roadster a mind-numbing 75 years old and still closely resembling the original. The first Morgan automobile that wasn’t a three-wheeler, the automaker used the 4/4 name to indicate that the car had four wheels and four cylinders.

Details have changed but the 4/4 today is essentially the same roadster that Morgan started building in 1936. (Photo: Morgan)
While the internals, safety equipment and engines have evolved over seven and a half decades, not much has changed on the outside. Today’s 4/4 looks a lot like one from the '80s, or even the '50s. When it comes to styling, Morgan seems to embrace the saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

To commemorate 75 years of keeping calm and carrying on, Morgan is launching a special limited-edition of the 4/4. It’s available in Sport Black, Sport Red, or Old English White, and it comes with a matte finish stripe bearing the “4/4 75th” graphic.

The Morgan's cramped cockpit shows off the classic gauges and wood trim craved by British sports-car enthusiasts. (Photo: Morgan)
Power comes from a 2-liter, four-cylinder engine pulled from the Morgan Plus 4 and good for a modest 145 horsepower and 140 pound-feet of torque. That will get the car from 0 to 62 miles per hour in 7.2 seconds, on the way to a top speed of 118 miles per hour.

Morgans are no match for contemporary sports cars on a racetrack. Instead, Morgans are about enjoying the experience of the drive, and enough buyers understand that to create a perpetual waiting list for the automaker’s wares.

There’s no word on whether the 4/4 75th Anniversary edition will make it to this side of the pond, but buyers in Great Britain can expect to pay 38,750 GBP ($60,222) for the limited-edition Morgan.

This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
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