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Click above for high-res image gallery of the Morgan SuperSport Junior pedal car

Budding automotive gearheads (along with a few of us here at Autoblog HQ) have one more piece of pedal car hotness to add to their Holiday wishlists: a new 2/3rd scale trike from Morgan. In the modern era, this classic British sportscar manufacturer offers a series of old-school four-wheelers complete with wooden substructures hewn from ash, but Morgan's early years focused on three-wheeled cyclecars that used V-Twin motorcycle engines mounted right in front of the grille and powering the two front wheels. Founded in 1909, Morgan Motor Company is celebrating its first 100 years in business by offering a limited edition run of these SuperSport Junior mini trikes.

Scheduled for production in August of 2009, Morgan's new pedal car has a price tag of £2,510 - about $3,700 in the States - and only 500 will be produced. The entire human-powered vehicle is made from only the highest quality materials, including a non-functional aluminum engine up front - just like the classic Grand Prix model from the early 1900s. A quick glance at the images in our gallery below already has us pondering what it would take to adapt a little Briggs & Stratton in its place.

Gallery: Morgan SuperSport Junior pedal car


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Morgan has signed on as one of the key players in an all-British consortium that will team to produce a high-performance zero-emissions fuel cell sports car.

Morgan's partners in the effort are QinetiQ, Cranfield and Oxford Universities, BOC and OSCar. The two-and-a-half-year project will culminate with the unveiling of the LIFECar (see above illustration), which be based on Morgan's Aero Eight and feature a QinetiQ fuel cell that will power four wheel-mounted motors. The LIFECar will use regenerative braking to recharge its ultra-capacitors which will be used to provide additional power during acceleration. The setup will allow QinetiQ to use a smaller fuel-cell than the ones in use on other prototypes of this nature. The LIFECar project's £1.9m budget will be covered by a combination of government (Department for Trade and Industry) and industry sources.

In addition to providing the donor platform, Morgan will be responsible for the vehicle's final assembly. We love the fact that this high-tech concept will have Morgan roots, as that is possibly the last marque that springs to mind when thinking of cutting-edge alternative fuel vehicles. It ensures that the LIFECar will have something many of the other alterna-fuel concepts and prototypes sorely lack: charm.

We hope that the next two years go by quickly, because this is one we're looking forward to seeing.

(Press release after the jump)

[Source: Morgan Motor Company]

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