{"id":2007821,"date":"2026-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2007821"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:00:00","slug":"morgan-has-fitted-its-rather-lovely-midsummer-barchetta-with-a-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2007821","title":{"rendered":"Morgan has fitted its rather lovely Midsummer barchetta with a roof"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in 2024, Morgan gave us a bit of a shock by revealing the exquisite Pininfarina-designed Midsummer<\/a>. This was a coachbuilt special with a hand-crafted aluminium body and design inspired by roadsters of the 1930s and 40s. It was also limited to just 50 examples, and by the time we\u2019d seen it all were sold out. Booo.<\/p>\n

And yet, while we wallowed in the knowledge that we\u2019d never own one, one clever so and so was straight on the phone to Morgan to ask if they\u2019d make him a Midsummer that was a little more practical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is the end result, and isn\u2019t it pretty. Morgan now says it\u2019ll make 10 Midsummer Coupes in total, with the car you see above acting as the prototype and \u201cartists\u2019 proof\u201d. The following nine will each be highly personalised client commissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brief for this special commission was clear. It was not simply about adding a roof,\u201d reads the Morgan press release. \u201cInstead, the ambition was to evolve the concept into something entirely new while preserving the character, proportions and sense of occasion that defined Midsummer, whilst introducing a greater sense of drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Certainly plenty of drama in that glass roof with its stainless steel central strip, isn\u2019t there? Morgan also claims that there\u2019s \u201cgreater visual tension\u201d and \u201ca stronger sense of purpose\u201d, and perhaps they\u2019ve been spending a bit too long hanging around the Pininfarina offices. The shape of the side windows was apparently inspired by Italian sports cars of the 1960s, while the forged 19in wheels deploy Morgan\u2019s most intricate design to date.<\/p>\n

The Coupe is fully weather sealed (not a given for Morgans), and features both climate control and fitted luggage to make it a proper Grand Tourer. This prototype then features plenty of teak in its interior, but each customer will be able to choose their preferred brand of timber. You\u2019ll also spot the new aluminium drive selector that was introduced with the Supersport 400<\/a>. Much better than the plasticky BMW item of old. We wonder if the 400\u2019s erm\u2026 402bhp engine has also been carried over to the Coupe?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite all the extra work needed to fit the roof, Morgan says the Midsummer Coupe weighs just 2.5 per cent more than a Supersport fitted with a hardtop. And yes, it does still use a wooden frame under all of that fancy hand-shaped aluminium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2024, Morgan gave us a bit of a shock by revealing the exquisite Pininfarina-designed Midsummer. This was a coachbuilt special with a hand-crafted aluminium body and design inspired by roadsters of the 1930s and 40s. It was also limited to just 50 examples, and by the time we\u2019d seen it all were sold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2007821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}