Morgan · 2000–2018
Morgan Aero 8
The Morgan Aero 8 is a sports car built by Morgan Motor Company at its factory in Malvern Link, England from 2000 until 2018. The Aero 8 shape evolved in the traditional Morgan way of form following function and the main players were Chris Lawrence, Charles Morgan and other members of the Morgan Engineering Team, and Norman Kent of Survirn Engineering Ltd – especially for the tooling of the Aero wings. The AeroMax, Aero Supersports and Aero Coupe were designed by the firm's designer Matthew Humphries. Humphries sent the basic design of it to Charles Morgan when he was at Coventry University and joined Morgan on a KTP programme. Radshape were heavily involved in the chassis (Graham Chapman, the current MMC Development Director was working for them at that time) and Superform with much of the body panels, both companies eventually producing for MMC when the car was launched. Announced in 2000, the Aero 8 is notable for several reasons, primarily because it was the first new Morgan design since 1964's +4+. It was touted as Morgan's first supercar and undertook a comprehensive development programme including endurance testing at BMW's huge proving grounds L'Autodrome de Miramas. It does not use anti-roll bars, an oddity in a modern sporting car. It is also the first Morgan vehicle with an aluminium chassis and frame as opposed to traditional Morgan vehicles ("trads") that have an aluminium skinned wooden body tub on a steel chassis. The engine first powering the Aero 8 was a 4.4 L BMW M62 V8 mated to a 6-speed Getrag transmission. In 2007, the Series 4 Aero 8 was released which had an upgraded 4.8 L BMW N62 V8 with an optional ZF automatic transmission. All Aero 8s are assembled at Morgan's Malvern Link factory, where they are able to produce up to 14 cars a week (Aeros and trads). It has been criticised for its "crosseyed" look which originally was justified by the manufacturers as conferring aerodynamic benefits. In response, Morgan changed the design from 2005 (Series 3 and all subsequent Aero iterations), using Mini rather than VW New Beetle headlights.
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115 licensed and 129 SORN (244 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
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| 2014 | 168 |
| 2015 | 169 |
| 2016 | 202 |
| 2017 | 246 |
| 2018 | 253 |
| 2019 | 262 |
| 2020 | 257 |
| 2021 | 256 |
| 2022 | 251 |
| 2023 | 248 |
| 2024 | 249 |
| 2025 | 244 |
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- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q517678CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Aero_8CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1373697652 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- UK Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) fuel & emissions data — https://carfueldata.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/Open Government Licence v3.0
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
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