After 20 years, Morgan has confirmed that its Plus Four model will return to the U.S. market in early 2025, after receiving official federal approval.
Morgan says the U.S.-destined Plus Four will be prices at $84,995, making it one of the cheapest truly hand-built cars in the world, each one having hand-formed aluminum bodywork over a hand-cut ash timber frame. It will also have exclusivity on its side, with Morgan’s network of 12 U.S. dealers not able to sell more than 325 cars in any single year -another provision of the replica car provision of the so-called FAST Act (Fixing America’s Surface Transportation.)
Morgan is the first automaker to successfully navigate the bureaucratic complexities of getting a modern replica of an older car approved for U.S. sale, something that has allowed the Plus Four to be exempted from many modern safety standards that would have been impossibly expensive for Morgan to satisfy.
Will other modernized versions of non-American classic cars get to follow?
Morgans are put together by the 115-year old company, tucked away in the Malvern hills towards England's border with Wales, and expects around two-thirds of the thousand-or-so cars it builds per year to be Plus Fours.
Top Gear reports that the latest Plus Four "still doesn’t have the precision of a Porsche, nor would you expect it to, but in a two-seater roadster every journey should be a special event. And in the Plus Four, it is."