MORGAN SUPERSPORT IS A £100K PLUS SIX SUCCESSOR

New flagship aims to mix classic appeal with 21st-century usability

- FELIX PAGE

Morgan has revealed the Supersport as a successor to the Plus Six, claiming the upgraded model will be more dynamic and more practical to live with day to day.

The Malvern brand's striking new £100k flagship is so extensively modified over the Plus Six that it has been homologated as a completely new car, rather than a facelift - and its new name reflects the brand's ambition to more clearly separate the new six-cylinder model from its four-pot stablemate.

Morgan's head of design, Jonathan Wells, told Autocar: “The aspiration for this car was to create some breadth in the portfolio - to create some division between the Plus Four and Plus Six, which are quite closely related at the moment, with fundamentally the same silhouette and the same interior.”

The Supersport adopts a bold new look that melds familiar Morgan hallmarks with more modern and aero-optimised cues. The same treatment was previously deployed on the Midsummer speedster that Morgan designed in partnership with Pininfarina as a Plus Six swansong, though the Supersport was actually finished before that project started.

As well as helping to more clearly separate the Morgan line-up into three distinct strands - Super 3, Plus Four and Supersport - Morgan's aim with this new car is to provide a more direct alternative to its mainstream rivals.