While American Auto Titans Go Begging for their lives, England's tiny Morgan Motor Co. keeps making snazzy, old-school roadsters straight out of Bugsy Malone. Founded in 1909 when Harry Frederick Stanley Morgan (a.k.a. H.F.S.) assembled his first three-wheeled vehicle in a small repair shop, Morgan is the planet's oldest privately held automaker. It's been a family affair ever since. Now at the helm: Charles Morgan, H.F.S.' 57-year-old grandson, a tall man with a deep voice, hurried gait and taste for pinstriped suits.rnMorgan cranks out only 700 cars a year at a modest 5-acre factory in hilly Malvern, where potholes are marked with fluorescent chalk. Its most popular model is the $37,500 4/4 Sport-in production since 1936, with a 14-month backlog-marked by a signature bulbous nose, owl-eye headlights, tiny windshield and 1.6-liter engine that rivals the 30% heavier Mazda Miata. The wait for the curvaceous $151,000 Aero 8-with an all-aluminum chassis and better power-to-weight ratio than the Porsche 911 GT3-is nine months.
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机译：在美国汽车巨人为自己的生活乞讨的同时，英格兰的微型摩根汽车公司（Morgan Motor Co.）仍然直接从Bugsy Malone中制造时髦的老式跑车。摩根成立于1909年，当时哈里·弗雷德里克·斯坦利·摩根（Harry Frederick Stanley Morgan）（又名H.F.S.）在一家小型修理厂里组装了他的第一辆三轮车，摩根是世界上最古老的私营汽车制造商。从那以后一直是家庭事务。现在掌舵人：H.F.S.的Charles Morgan。 57岁的孙子，个子高大，声音沉沉，步态匆匆，喜欢穿细条纹的西装。摩根公司（Morgan）每年仅在丘陵的Malvern一家占地5英亩的小工厂里开出700辆汽车，那里的坑洼上刻有荧光粉笔。它最受欢迎的车型是自1936年以来的$ 37,500 4/4 Sport-in生产，具有14个月的积压，标志性的球鼻，猫头鹰眼大灯，微小的挡风玻璃和1.6升发动机可与30％的重马自达竞争。三田等待157,000美元的曲线美的Aero 8配备全铝底盘，比保时捷911 GT3-拥有更好的功率/重量比，这是九个月的等待。
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