Morgan Aero Super Sport - Jay Leno's Garage 

Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but Morgan is no longer run by a Morgan, he got kicked out by the share holders i think.

"In 2013, he was removed as Morgan's managing director and continued as strategy director until October 2013, when he was voted off the company's board. He remains a minority shareholder."

Be a great ride in the good weather...

For £20 you can tour the factory for 2 hours taking pictures everywhere it's great , real genuine solid workers in the beautiful Malvern Hills, do it if you can!

An Italian investment company has just taken a majority share of Morgan. It will help to finance future new model development. The Morgan family are still involved.

Cross eyed tho

That's what controversial means. People disagreeing on whether it's beautiful or ugly. I find it more in the spectrum of beautiful, but I can see why people don't like it.

@@Brascofarian actually less cross eyed than the earlier Aero 8s

@@Suprahampton they still positioned them on the piss.

Ehhh

Motor company that doesn't make any motors..

@@hc7369 its impossible to make own engines and transmissions for a company which makes 1000 plus cars per year. And its completely unnecessary. They are good at what they are.

I'm not 100% sure about that claim. Have you seen Ariel Atoms? Those are pure driver's cars!

Aren't Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz pure?

@@karendixon401 Rolls-Royce is owned by the BMW group.

I thought I was the only one bro, I love these cars. It's such beautiful mixture of past and present.

@@HarrietThugman I've done a complete 180 on this car. When I first saw it, I thought WTF? Now, I totally would.

yah someday u will be mine

Absolutely timeless design, very well proportioned back, impressive front. Truly a piece of art.

it's been my dream car since GT Racing: Motor Academy

And Jay is old too

agree.

It is …… but the downside is that the steering wheel is on the wrong side 😳

Ugliest car I’ve seen and it’s British 😅

​@@radiogramgramophonetoons5802I've seen left hand drive Aero 8s. Idk how available they are.

That's exactly the problem.The long nose looks ridiculous with the weight balance totally off.I bet it's around 80-85% to 20-15% front and back respectively.Most certainly it understeers like crazy.Not that you go fast enough understeering to endanger you,but still,it's very annoying a light but understeering car. All cars i think should do the raft test (like top gear did while driving through africa) .After you put the car in the middle of it , it doesn't stay straight to horizontal,weight distribution is no good. Beside,it looks COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS with that long nose and short tail,like a good cartoon caracter with big head and small body. What's "amazing" about the stiling ? It's just the clasic old headlights (but with UNclassic interior of them) sloped back but NOT enough to be beautifull. 911 did them good,this didn't. Also,you're TOO DAMN LOW.I'm small (1,92m) and my head would stick out like crazy and wouldn't fit in it. Also it would be too cramped and steering wheel would hit my knees.Well,it would be BETWEEN MY KNEES. Beside,whenever i get in a car,i push the seat back.Here,I CAN'T because it's one of that STUPID "cars" with the wall behind the seat. Beside,as my great grandfather use to say,"I like to put myself/get UP in car , not lowered myself" . That's why i LOVE the 1920's cars and beggining of the 1930's where you would sit about the hight of a pick-up "truck" NOT this ... THING wich ISN'T a car,wich is too short,too low and did i mentioned the RIDICULOUS,UGLY AND UNCOVERING of the low and/or curved down door of the taditional british "sport" cars ? Beside,i can't imagine why the brith would build "sport" cars are they country is old and twisty,just like the citi streets with only about 2-5 days of shunshine a year :) . British sport cars are like ANY sport cars.USELESS.

Motanelustalistu: Your car is a Pinto, it suits your personality

Seriously? That's not a comment. That's the script for a horrible TV show. The main focus of which is hating sports cars. Pretty easy to predict that your sports car hating TV show is going to be a HUGE flop! So according to what I read into your comment the PT Cruiser is your dream machine.

I am guessing they no longer have ash wood frames?

Brought a tear to my eye. Hope all is good 👍

Sorry about your father. Good to hear he enjoyed his chat with Jay before he passed. Jay is a class act and an American icon.

shame he was ousted...

If you have the money you should buy a Morgan, that's one car that doesn't lose value.

Then there are all the hotties in high school who became frumpy and saggy after high school.

Good lord, you people are children.

We're all children, aren't we?

Hoggdoc Unusual? I have a place in Vegas...where that is considered a viable career path.

Hey, that's my wife you are talking about !!

7 year waiting list

@@robertkirk4387 unless of course you're Jay Leno lol.

Joel Hill the three armed windshield wipers was common on Jaguar and MG.

Fallen World it would seem that you are correct, seeing as Jay Leno has just ordered one.

@@frankdenardo8684 , necessary.

Our condolences.

seriously who cares you sound like an upper class twit

xaos kuntablast To me, he sounds like someone who feels fortunate to live in such close proximity to the factory whereas you sound like someone who rushes to negative judgment, thereby coming across as a bag of douches.

i live in Malvern aswell, to prove that you live next to the factory what is the name of the park next to the factory

GORGICHEV MEDIA I actually live inside the factory . I know what the cars are going to look like before the workers even know 😎

Cool

@@gdfggggg Jealous, when I got dropped off to school it was in a bottom of the line 1954 Chevy. Don't cry for me Argentina, as six years later my grandmother left me enough money in her will for me to buy a new 1965 fuel injection Corvette, two years later, being young and dumb, I wrapped it around a pole, a telephone pole.

Yeah it felt like one they had in reserve, kind of nostalgic to hear the old generic opening.

Mystickneon it an 09 model n jay says its morgan newest addition.. must be 09/10.

he sold out he's not Morgan CEO anymore

Yes it was. Jay looks different and it's only 720p. Also, Morgan was still relevant.

Wompie Morgan is pretty interesting nowadays too. They're doing electric three wheelers. Very cool.

Jay was actually my least favorite talk show host besides Craig Kilborn, Pat Sajak, & Chevy Chase. /// /// THAT SAID, Competition was very Tough, Jay rode thru the good times and bad, a very long time. He had a more schmultzy approach, with good points & lesser. I HAVE ENTIRELY NEW RESPECT FOR HIM AFTER HIS DR. PHIL, "Phil in the blanks" interview avail of Ytube. Working at a car dealership as a kid, put it in his blood.

It was a good save, because Morgan may not have meant anything by it, but essentially implied that homeless people would typically be too uncultured and stupid compared to an average person to recognize the make. Lenos save diverted that uncomfortable situation of a guy born with a golden spoon in his mouth and inheriting everything he is to just mocking the high price of homes for why even middle-class might be homeless. ;)

@@BoopSnoot more like he said that a homeless person won't be interested in high level cars

@@kubaprosek9989 That wouldn't make any sense, because 99% of people aren't buying those cars. It was a subconscious knock that homeless people are mostly stupid, which granted is mostly true, but still has bad optics to say outloud as its considered "punching down".

@@BoopSnoot Knowing about a tiny English sports car manufacturer is nothing to do with intelligence, so he wasn't saying the homeless person was stupid

You misquoted him. He said "In Beverly Hills, even homeless people..." . different meaning.

On the old web site they had completed a video on the bus in question. Perhaps Jay's production team will add it as another classic.

It's shop manager Bernard's bus. 1961 Flxible Starliner. Used to tow his racecar. There's some stuff on the web about it.

There were many videos on the bus rebuild.

Tommy V Oh you scundral! You came up with best joke I've heard today.

I'm waiting for the Morgan Fairchild to come out.

It came out almost 81 years ago. You may try to ride it, but don't wonder if you are being called an interacial blue oyster by doing so. It may also go fairly slow.

What would the Morgan Freeman look like. Well, if the Freeman is anything like MINI "Country"man, it will be a hidieously ugly stationwagon. Nobody will get it.

I drive a Morgan Fairchild, it has lovely bumpers.

@Shubhendra Rai Well said sir.

...not a piggy bank!! U need an elephant bank to afford this thing!!😀😀😀

He is. I went to see the factory two years ago, they offer interesting tours. He happened to be there outside the paint shop. We were only a groupof three, so he took the time for a chat. Real enthusiast.

Chris Dooley Charles Morgan was ousted from the company a couple of years ago and given a backseat. That's why I thought it was strange when this video popped up.

@@shovons So he was the new Plus Four, then? (groan)

I used to own an Austin Healey 3000 Mk I that I sometimes traded for a day for a friend's Triumph TR4 and occasionally I got to drive a Morgan +4. Great cars for PA roads but sadly I now live in Phoenix with its long straight roads and daily temps now around 110°. I will say that if you're thinking about old British sports cars with their Smiths Gauges and Lucas electrics you better enjoy working on your car. They are fun to drive, you really feel the road, they have a timeless look and they sound great.

They say God created the Light and Lucas created the Dark. What with the other nemesis of English cars being The Wet, you'd think AZ would be the perfect place for them.

Some people have no soul either. No one reminisces about things reliable, do they? The best summer day I had was driving my Triumph Spitfire from Winnemucca NV. to Reno with my blonde high school girlfriend when the entire front hood lifted off and I saw it sliding upside down in an ocean of sparks behind me. With just some wire snips and a length of road side barbed wire fence had me on my way. There were hundred of trips I made in more reliable cars where nothing at all happened. I don't remember even one of those days. Nostalgic nonsense trumps everyday nothingness always. Take your yuppie BMW Z4M and wave at the other Z4Ms that you see all day long. When you are old you can smile at all the trouble it saved you. Not to mention they are expensive for a reason. Right, Undercover Genius?

Ah yes, I had those great road trips too but the fact I’m a mechanic helped because I could fix whatever went wrong, e.g. duct taping an empty bottle filled with gasoline, to the roof of the car as a gravity feed fuel source after the electric pump died. I’m 70 now and I’m done with unreliable cars so I get my road jollies on a Yamaha FJR1300 with a radar detector. In the 1960s I didn't have any male friends who were not car guys. Sadly, I don’t know many kids today really interested in driving, much less being car enthusiasts. They’re going to miss out on all the fun I had driving 3 cyl. Saabs, VW Bugs, Hillmans, a Morgan where most of the frame wood was gone, a Fiat 600, Corvairs, etc.

I owned a factory turbo charged 180 H.P. Corvair. I lived next to Lake Tahoe Nevada and at that altitude when all the other normally aspirated cars were losing up to 35% of their horsepower, my Corvair stayed at 180 h.p. That put me in the range of wasting 289 Mustangs and 273 Barracudas all day long. Enjoyable times. The hapless Mustang and Camero owners didn't catch on to what was happening. My "fast" "stock" Corvair. Corned well too, because it was a 1965 model and the previous suspension problems were solved.

its a bmw sound not morgan

magheti adrian lol the exhaust is custom whats bmw about that? if you can't say something useful.............

anyone can modify the muffler. engine sound is king.

SchneiderMan its not just a muffler tho is it? And i agree that engine soud is great but it only makes up 15% of the over all note in a morgan.

man you are stupid ,,so a engine its 15% on car haaaaa,,,,wtf if i take you your heart you can live haaa,,,,my point its a fuckin bmw like a mini cooper ,,,go buy m3,m2,m4,m5 and its beter than this fuckin faliment brits cars

Reminds me of the Jaguar XJ

Simeon Bystrzanowski Why did you leave?

@@marshamcdonald1475 He pissed in a car

NeverSaySandwich1. Mr. neversaysandwich You are disgusting.

(@Marsha McDONALD)-Nobody at the shop could pronounce his name so he had no real mates poor bloke. (spl?)

Indeed, I was so in love with this thing when it came out, havent seen one in a long time, this video is awesome. What a beauty.

On a Morgan? No chance

shawoo there's no bumpers so, no.

No, they fell off

shawoo lol . 1 year or 1 mile, whichever comes first.

old joke, not funny.

sonofjak1971 It's a classic episode, Jay must have been busy this last week.

sonofjak1971 Jay didn't combed his hair back then, too...😂

Thanks, in the US I was wondering how you knew the tag year. Jay stopped using that opening format and sound tract years ago.

There were two new car registrations in 2009 one in March, those numbers on the plate reading 59, and one in September the numbers on those plates reading 09. The Morgan being registered in the uk between September 2009 and March 2010.

sonofjak1971 you have that the wrong way round. The lower number runs march to September, the higher from September to march the following year.

Atheist Orphan Morgan has built the Super Sport for several years but they improve over the years

Atheist Orphan

Gearjammer Ariel has always been a British car maker since the 1800s

Paul Sarab what's wrong with it?

Duck Man Thank you Duck Man, we are cousins after all is said & done.....

Morgan cars are made in Malvern (pronounced Molvern) in Worcestershire (Wus ter shur) Well worth a visit, not just for the car factory, for the beautiful countryside and the history. Elgar to name one famous son of the county.

Malvern isn't London.

they still use that engine its built only for morgan (new aero and plus 8)

But he likes everything!

It's called globalization, all kinds of parts sharing going on, between different companies.

+Girl_in_a_Hemi. It's not all that unusual for rare-ish supercars to use parts from normal cars. Have a look at:- www.fastcar.co.uk/fast-car-news/what-cars-share-the-same-lights/

They were an improvement over the headlights from the new beetle used on the previous models, they looked cross eyed!

Makes it easy to install one of those breakers to keep the car from getting hotwired, etc.

I was thinking about all of the liquid from the battery flying on your face in a frontal collision.

On most performance applications, the battery is placed at the right rear, to offset the weight when there is only the driver in the car.

Exactly

Hey, Pablo! He did say it was a prototype.

morgan had that style of head lamp well before the mini

though, since they're already using a BMW engine, I'm sure they also get the headlights thrown in :P

the aero max (the bog eyed version) used vw beatle head lights