2007 Morgan Aero 8 Series III
The Morgan Aero 8 is a sports car built by Morgan Motor Company at its factory in Malvern Link, England (an area of Malvern in Worcestershire).
The Aero 8 shape evolved in the traditional Morgan way of form follows function and the main players were Chris Lawrence, Charles Morgan and other members of the Morgan Engineering Team, and Norman Kent of Survirn Engineering Ltd – especially for the tooling of the Aero wings.
The AeroMax, Aero Supersports and Aero Coupe were designed by the firm’s designer Matthew Humphries. Matthew sent the basic design of it to Charles Morgan when he was at Coventry University and joined Morgan on a KTP programme.
Radshape were heavily involved in the chassis (Graham Chapman, the current MMC Development Director was working for them at that time) and Superform with much of the body panels, both companies eventually producing for MMC when the car was launched.
The Morgan Aero 8 is powered by an engine from BMW and is notable in the history of the Worcestershire based manufacturer for several reasons; It was the first new Morgan design since the Plus 4 in 1964 and the first with an aluminium chassis and frame. Touted as Morgan’s first supercar, it undertook a comprehensive development programme which included endurance testing with BMW.
One of only 12 of the new series III Aero 8 Morgans with the “un-cross eyed” headlights to make it into the USA under Morgan’s 2 year “hardship exemption” from smart airbags. It has 4.4 BMW V8 in a 2500 lb, all aluminum car that offers blistering performance and yet docile when asked. And with no electronic gimmicks like Traction control, the option to “get squirrely fast” is Totally up to you…
The 3 car “AutoGT Racing” team, sponsored by Banque Baring Brothers Sturdza S.A., and run by the renowned F1 racers Jean Pierre Jabouille and legend Jacques Laffite made an appearance for the first race of the season at Silverstone and ran well at the second round in Bucharest. 2 cars completed both rounds. The development of the team is now well underway and did well at Monza with 3 cars running.
After a most promising practice at Monza an early race accident put our fastest running Morgan out of the race. A Lamborghini ran into the Morgan resulting in the team not quite reaching their full potential.
This car can cruise all day but is also a weapon in the right hands. When launched, the media went to town calling it cross-eyed squint. So this looker, doesn’t suffer from opposing looks – but don’t take our word for it, come and have a look for yourself…quickly though, there less than 5 of these in SA.
It is also a properly luxurious grand tourer, with a turned aluminium dashboard, comfortable space for two, a decent-sized boot, air-conditioning, two airbags, cruise control and a heated windscreen. 
