What a Morgan cost, when it was new
Prices
From a £95 three-wheeler in 1912 to a £75,895 Plus 4 in 2026.
- 480prices recorded
- 9models priced
- 1912–2026covered
What did a Morgan cost when it was new? Every price here is exactly as it was printed: 480 of them, from factory lists, brochures and road tests.
The tables preserve each price’s original currency, body style and period wording, without conversion or rounding. The curve is the one view that adjusts sterling for inflation, so prices from different eras can be compared.
£951912 · Three-wheeler
The first price in the record, for a 1912 three-wheeler.
£75,8952026 · Plus 4
A Plus 4 on the latest list. Both as printed; the curve below adjusts for inflation.
What it cost when it was new
Every sterling price on record, from 1912 to 2026. The band is the spread between the cheapest and dearest Morgan on the list that year; the line is the cheapest. Switch to 2025 money to see what the figures were actually worth.
2025£41,995Trike£41,995 in 2025 moneyup to £103,570 for the Supersport
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What the money meant
A list price on its own says little. Set against a wage, the rest of the range and the other cars in the showroom, it starts to.
What a Morgan Cost in WagesHow many months of an average British wage did a new Morgan take?
Historic Earnings · 1920–2024Click a year below to see what a Morgan cost against it.
1968: average UK wage £790 a yearBank of England
Average earnings were about £790 a year. The 4/4 came to ten months of them, and the mighty Rover V8 Plus 8 to a year and a half.
These are the factory’s prices before purchase tax, which the buyer paid on top: Motor Sport’s road test that December priced the Plus 8 at £1,487 with the tax and seat belts. Motor Sport, December 1968
The Price LadderFrom the plainest Morgan on the list to the grandest
In the early days a few pounds separated one Morgan from the next. By 2024 the gap between the Super 3 and the Plus Six was more than £49,000!
Click a year below to see that year's price ladder.
1968: the dearest cost 1.72× the cheapest
£485 apartThen came the Plus 8! It cost £485 more than a 4/4, and needless to say it was worth every penny…
Morgan and the CompetitionWhat else could you buy for the money in 1961?
Period RivalsClick a year below to see what else it would have bought.
1961 · The British Sports Car Boom
Every price here is the one the magazines printed with their road tests, purchase tax and all (the factory’s own list said £520 for the 4/4, before the tax). The 4/4 cost much the same as a Sprite, two-thirds of a TR4 and about a third of an E-Type.
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Prices are collected from factory lists, brochures and contemporary road tests. Spotted one that’s wrong or missing? Tell me.
Today’s-money figures use the Office for National Statistics’ Retail Prices Index: Long run series: 1800 to 2024: Jan 1974=100, the same long-run series the Bank of England’s own inflation calculator runs on. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. It reaches 2025, so the 2026 list is shown in the money of the day only. Only sterling is charted: converting the American and Australian figures would need an exchange rate for every year on top of the price index, and two estimates stacked on one number is a worse answer than none.
Sources
Where this comes from
Where the wages and the other cars’ prices in “What the money meant” come from. The Morgan prices are the factory’s own lists, as in the tables, unless a Morgan carries a source of its own.
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Bank of England
Bank of England, “A millennium of macroeconomic data”, version 3.1 (Ryland Thomas and Nicholas Dimsdale), average weekly earnings per person. The yearly figures can be read as FRED series AWEPPUKA. Checked 5 October 2026.
A mean across all employees, spliced by the Bank from academic and official series; the site multiplies the weekly figure by 52 (1920 £2.88, 1936 £2.01, 1950 £5.08, 1968 £15.20, 1985 £131.80). It is not the same measure as the official full-time median used for 2008 and 2024.
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Motor Sport, December 1968
W. B. [Bill Boddy], “Road Test: The 3½-litre Morgan Plus-8”, Motor Sport, December 1968. Checked 4 October 2026.
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ASHE 2008
The official ASHE figure for the whole UK, quoted in Northern Ireland’s bulletin; the Office for National Statistics’ own 2008 release is no longer on its website.
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ONS, ASHE 2024
Office for National Statistics, “Employee earnings in the UK: 2024” (Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings), 29 October 2024: median gross annual earnings for full-time employees, April 2024, £37,430. Checked 5 October 2026.
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Motor Sport, March 1983
Bill Boddy, “Austin 7 comparisons”, Motor Sport, March 1983. Checked 5 October 2026.
Written long after the fact; Boddy gives the tourer or Chummy at £149 by September 1925 on the authority of the Austin Seven historian R. J. Wyatt.
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Museu do Caramulo
Museu do Caramulo, “Morris Cowley”, collection page: the price fell from £465 in 1920 to £162 10s by 1925. Checked 5 October 2026.
A museum’s note on its own car; it does not say which body the 1925 price was for (other accounts give it for the two-seater with dickey).
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The Motor, 25 April 1962
“The Morgan 4/4”, The Motor, 25 April 1962: the Series IV test car cost £729 including taxes on the home market. As cited by Wikipedia, “Morgan 4/4”. Checked 5 October 2026.
Read through Wikipedia’s citation of the road test, not in the magazine itself. The factory list price for the 4/4 in 1961 was £520, before purchase tax.
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The Motor, 12 July 1961
“The Austin-Healey Sprite Mk II”, The Motor, 12 July 1961: the de luxe test car, with hardtop, cost £705 including £208 of taxes. As cited by Wikipedia, “Austin-Healey Sprite”. Checked 5 October 2026.
Read through Wikipedia’s citation of the road test, not in the magazine itself. A plainer Sprite cost less.
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Autocar, 1962
“Cars for summer: the Triumph TR4”, Lancaster Insurance, 24 July 2018: when Autocar tested a TR4 in very early 1962 the price was £1,095. Checked 5 October 2026.
An insurer’s article quoting the Autocar road test, which was not seen itself. By January 1963, after purchase tax was cut, Motor Sport gave the TR4 at £906 16s 3d.
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Motor, 22 March 1961
“The Jaguar E-Type”, Motor, 22 March 1961: the open test car cost £2,097 including taxes. As cited by Wikipedia, “Jaguar E-Type”. Checked 5 October 2026.
Read through Wikipedia’s citation of the road test, not in the magazine itself.
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Motor Sport, May 1985
G. C., “TVR 390 SE”, Motor Sport, May 1985: the same convertible “with the Ford V6 for £13,900, or the 3.5 V8 for £15,500”. Checked 5 October 2026.
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evo
Ethan Jupp and Peter Tomalin, “Porsche 911 3.2 Carrera (1984–1989) review”, evo, 11 August 2025: “When launched in 1984 the 3.2 Carrera cost from £22,537.” Checked 5 October 2026.
A modern magazine’s figure for the coupé at its 1984 launch; no dated 1985 price list was found.
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Caterham Cars
Caterham Cars, “Seven 420”, caterhamcars.com (read 5 October 2026): from £41,990. Checked 5 October 2026.
Caterham’s current price rather than its 2024 one; no dated 2024 price list was found. Factory assembly costs extra.
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Porsche, October 2025
Porsche, “How much is a new Porsche 718 Boxster?”, porsche.com, 9 October 2025: from £55,800 in the UK. Checked 5 October 2026.
Porsche’s own price, but from October 2025 rather than 2024; no dated 2024 UK price list was found.
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Top Gear
Top Gear, “Lotus Emira: buying”, 28 August 2023 (updated 15 January 2025): only First Editions on sale “certainly into mid-2024”, at “£81,495 for the i4”. Checked 5 October 2026.