Morgan Plus Four review

Morgan knows that buying a car like this is likely to be someone’s lifelong promise to themselves and wants every owner to relish every part of the ordering and build process.

Configuring the car should keep you occupied for a while: once you’ve picked between the standard alloys, or the dished 15-inch wire wheels, and what colour you want them in, the paint options are literally endless thanks to a bargain £1,320 paint-to-sample option. Then there are the leather and roof colours, the stitching pattern, dash trim, carpets, exterior details and accessories.

Morgan has fully embraced the power of the options list for this one, so keep a close eye on that price, as it can easily creep up towards the £90k mark. Somebody with a little too much time on their hands, and a lightly smoking calculator, worked out there’s over a trillion possible combinations.

You’re also welcome to visit the factory and witness your car being built, which you should. The juxtaposition between the modern-ish chassis shop where BMW powertrains meet their alloy cradles, and the woodwork shop where the ash frames are hand crafted using ancient techniques, is a memory to treasure.

In terms of running costs, this is a big step on from the old Plus Four: 65 per cent more power and torque, 30 per cent less CO2. As far as improvements go, this must be unbeaten in the whole car industry. The claims are 45.0mpg and 140g/km on the WLTP cycle.

Morgan’s legendary waiting lists have now shortened to a more tolerable three years but residuals don’t seem to have suffered too badly. 3-4 year old cars have only dropped around £10,000-£15,000 from new.