Picture it now. You’ve just gotten dressed after a dip in Lake Como. You’re dressed in your Sunday casual-best, and you’ve been asked to grab a few bottles of wine and some bread for dinner.
You step out of your villa, and into your low-slung, 1950s-styled roadster, and take off. Life is good.
The roadster in question is a new, super exclusive collaboration between British automaker Morgan, and Italian design house Pininfarina. The result is a throwback beauty that would steal every eye it passes on the road.
Called the Midsummer, the car features an aesthetic that hearkens back to the 1950s, but also feels endlessly timeless. The brand calls the design ‘Eccentric Elegance’, with a focus on simplicity, and handcrafted beauty.
With no screens and no roof, and no windshield, the Midsummer is purely for cruising. Featuring an abundance of teak wood, the interior is inspired by the best marine craftsmanship.
Using a BMW 3.0-liter turbocharged six-cylinder, the mechanics of this throwback-beauty are modern. We could see an all-electric version coming in the near future.
Only 50 of these beauties will be built, and all of them have already been sold.
“Inspired by marine applications, beautifully sculpted wooden structures surround the cabin and create a shoulder line. Hand formed using high-quality and durable teak, hundreds of individual layers of wood are delicately laminated together to complete each section. Selected with meticulous attention-to-detail, each layer of teak is no more than 0.6mm thick.”
“The inspiration behind the name Midsummer is two-fold. Most prominently, the term Midsummer indicates the height of the summer, a celebration of the season which provides optimal weather conditions to experience an open-top barchetta.
Observing the mid-point of the season is a practice that dates to the neolithic era, a time in the calendar providing the central point to which an abundance of traditions have emerged. “
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