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The new Morgan 3 Wheeler is contained somewhere in this image

Magic Eye vision at the ready, for Morgan's revealing it's cars by optical illusion now

Published: 02 Dec 2021

Calling anyone who’s good at those optical illusion puzzles. Y’know, the ones where you stare at a load of wavy lines for a few minutes until a big picture of an eagle magically swoops from the page. We need you to look at these sketches.

Because contained within them all is the new Morgan 3 Wheeler. “Taken from the drawing boards of Morgan’s design team,” we’re told, this bunch of illustrations “demonstrate the aesthetic intent of the new model, as well as the inspirations that underpin it.

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“No single sketch in isolation reveals the exact look of the new model, yet in culmination they demonstrate some of the key design features that will be revealed in full when the new three-wheeled model is launched in 2022.”

Our theory, then, is that if you stare at them all at once – with the appropriate superpower – you'll be able to envisage the near-complete 3 Wheeler in your noggin.

We’re told the sketches portray “a technical front end trailed by a fluid form” as well as “a celebration of mechanical honesty” and “a vehicle ‘visually towed’ by its leading front wheels.”

Cyclops eyes, aero wheels, a very fiddly looking canopy roof… there’s a lot of potential styling cues to take in. We already know the car is powered by a naturally aspirated three-cylinder Ford engine – the Fiesta ST’s Ecoboost without the boost, basically – which’ll be housed inboard rather than up front like the outgoing 3 Wheeler’s V-twin. And Morgan now informs us this will be its most configurable car ever, one able to “assume multiple identities and cater for every adventure”.

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“Morgan cars are often described as ‘analogue’, despite exhibiting industry standard technologies,” says design boss Jonathan Wells. “We believe that in a world of technology, making art of a car’s mechanical elements serves as an antidote to typical vehicle design. Throughout design studies it became quickly apparent that the vehicle must celebrate the model’s mechanical honesty.

“The sketches demonstrate how these will form a focal point of the new vehicle. The ground-up design is simultaneously a reflection of Morgan’s rich past, relevant to the present, and provides a firm vision of Morgan’s design future.”

One which, no matter how hard we stare, we can’t quite see in full yet. Are you having any luck?

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