2024 Morgan Super 3 Can Be Lovely and Terrifying All at Once

• Morgan Super 3 is more fun than you've ever had on three wheels. Two front, one in the rear adds up to a good time on any continent.

• Brakes and steering are both manual, the five-speed transmission is from a Miata and is manual, the feeling is completely analog, just like the old days.

• Prices start at under $54,000 before destination, etc.

You don’t so much drive a Morgan Super 3 as you become a part of it. There you are, perched atop a single, skinny, mid-mounted rear wheel, behind two even skinnier front wheels, and somewhere aft of a naturally aspirated Ford three-cylinder engine from the UK-market Fiesta ST.

You, head poking up into the airflow, protected by a full-face motorcycle helmet with the visor flipped down, are merely another part number in this whole, glorious, mechanical cacophony.

It’s both lovely and only somewhat terrifying at the same time.

Morgan Motor Company has been making delightfully communicative sports cars for 114 years. The company started when H.F.S. Morgan built his first three-wheeler—not terribly unlike this one—in 1909. Morgan Motor Company has been making three, and four-wheeled fun-based automobiles ever since.

There are advantages to the three-wheeled approach to automotive design. Not only does it cost less and is naturally more sporting, but you skirt most of those troublesome crash tests, so it’s much easier to homologate for US sales.

Homologation has plagued Morgan in the US since the first dealers were established here in 1951, resulting in one point where US-spec Morgans suffered the indignity of running on propane to meet our government’s stringent emissions requirements.

Right now the Super 3 is the only Morgan sold here, though they hope to have the new, four-wheeled, Plus Fours authorized for sale in America within the next month or two.

Now it’s three wheels that do the trick, meaning the Morgan Super 3 is technically a motorcycle, hence the helmet.

Regardless, driving this is unlike driving anything else on wheels, no matter how many.

First, look at what you have to do just to get in: You flip your right leg over the sidewall, don’t put it on the seat, put it on the crossmember forward of the seat, place your buttocks on the top of the seat back, flip your left leg into the footwell, slide down. Kerfloop, you’re in. Believe it or not this is easier than it was in the previous Morgan 3-Wheeler.

Then realize you forgot—again—to take the key out of your pocket. Struggle halfway back up, get the key, slide back down, and try and put the key in the slot under the steering column. Adjust the steering wheel and the pedal box until both meet your measurements. Then try and get the seat belt to engage.