I suppose, these auto shows will never stop surprising us and car creators will never get tired of making new and completely great cars. Have you ever heard about Morgan? Yeah, but apart from a famous fashion apparel brand, it is the traditional British car brand, and it has officially announced that it is going to launch a LifeCar concept, that is a hydrogen-fueled car possessing a wood-frame body. This super car will be presented at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show.
Needless to say, that the LifeCar is a zero-emissions car. How does it look like? As for me it looks like a combination of the Aero 8, but with extremely large coverings on the wheels. Resembles concept and not a real car. Apart from it super natural body, it looks too sophisticated. According to Morgan such prominent companies as Oscar Automotive, QinetiQ, Oxford University and Linde took part in its development.
There is a new model in the Aero range – the Morgan Aero 8 America. Starting price looks like this $115,000 and you will get graphite side scoops, a rear diffuser, and side exit exhausts. As to its interior, we have a deal with full quilted leather. Engine: 4.4-liter BMW V8.
With such futuristic look, it’s hard to believe that this car use material like a wood-frame for body. It definitely resemble a concept car more than anything. It would be great to see the zero emission feature on more realistic cars at more affordable prices. Hopefully this will be the case in the coming years.
I love concept cars because they represent the extreme end of an auto maker’s vision into the future of automotive engineering.
This Morgan cc looks like one of those fasts cars drawn in the background of old cartoons from the 40′s or 50′s. Many of the high-end cars during that era had fender skirts covering the wheels, which were difficult to remove (affected by rust and dirt)especially if damaged. Honda revitalized the wheel covers with its (discontinued) hybrid, Insight.
To me, Morgans are most associated with the early 50′s MG-style of body design, which I always liked, and basic recognizable features remain (running boards and front hood).
Being a fan (and owner) of BMW, I believe the reliable BMW 4.4 V8 coupled with hydrogen fuel is a great choice for this car.
I wonder if carbon-fiber side scoops were considered before deciding on the graphite.
I don’t understand why the top and rear are exposed together, unless that is the way one enters and exits the car, and can place and remove objects from the trunk at the same time. Gee, I hope it isn’t raining.
Just looking at the wheels in the see-through design, I can understand why the front tires need a smaller diameter for clearance from the wheel covers when turning, but seems like plenty of room for rear wheels of a larger diameter.
I really enjoy the Morgan automobile. Michael Douglas drives one of these beautiful cars in ‘War of the Roses.’ I suggest watching the movie just for the car.
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ok mykol i love your explanation of the car, but i would like to clarify a few details, and fill u in on a few things u werent sure of. Firstly the roof: it is made of a single peice of aluminium and is designed to fold back to let people in, as there are no doors.
Secondly the whole point of this hydrogen fuel cell car is to be light and not use petrol engines. You see everybody thinks bigger engines means more power which means more performance, when only it really means a possible higher top speed. With this car they have stripped out all of the clunky heavy things engines used and replaced it with light feul cell stuff.
This means that there is no transmission, no gear box, no radiator, no clutch, no coolant and no cam shaft, even no power steering. Instead this has been replaced with large capacitators to capture and move around electricity, and a relatively small (30 bhp/22 kw) feul cell and four electric motors at each wheel. Yet despite this the car can reach 100mph and do 0 – 60 mph in like 7 seconds.
put this all together and the addition of an engines would suddenly make the car pointless.
But that doesnt change the fact that this is a really cool car, and i cant wait to try it out.
i also like this car. it is the latest design of ours.
Geez, that’s unbeilevblae. Kudos and such.