Remember when Morgan treated just 11 of its already rare Aero 8 cars to a 4.6-litre Alpina V8?
felt like a wild and wholly unprecedented move, then that’s because history hasn’t remembered the car you see here with sufficient fondness. A number of parallels run between the Aero 8 GTN and Malvern’s most recent V8 special, not least in the pair’s shared sense of sheer madness. The Aero 8 GTN isn’t quite as rare, mind, with a princely 11 of them populating the planet.
Produced in 2004, the GTN applied a new blue and silver colour scheme – Mauritius Blue and Titan Silver, for those with a persuasion towards PTS pedantry – to the oddly melted face of the Aero 8. We ought to start with the styling, really, because it hijacked a few too many headlines when the Aero launched in the early Noughties. After years of wanting Morgan to move with the times and give us something modern, we all recoiled upon seeing what that actually looked like.
Enough, all told, for a mightily impressive lap of the Top Gear test track, the contemporary Stig whipping it round quicker than an Exige or Ferrari 575, as you can see here [], that uprated powertrain in full, scintillating battle cry. Who knew a Morgan could be driven so deftly around a track? Well, until Gambon, at least…
The carbon fibre hard-top is removable, shrouding a traditional soft-top below, while carbon adorns the dashboard too. It feels like a Morgan designed and made for people who aren’t usually on board with the idea of them. Perhaps reflective of those suspicions, all GTNs were pieced together in a cluster separate from the rest of the Malvern manufacturing flow, much like its modern-day forebear – the Plus 8 GTR – has been.
If you narrowly missed the cut for one of those, there’s a heck of a lot of its spirit bubbling through a car almost 20 years its senior, here wearing just a whisker over 17,000 expertly serviced miles. Its funky semi-slick tyres have since long gone, but unless you’re genuinely planning on taking it on track, we suspect a bit of extra tread is more than wise if you’re to utilise a decently sized portion of its Alpina-sourced power in our haphazard climate.
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