Froadin Mogs

More Mogs!  I'm on Morgan Motor Company's email list so I'm periodically treated to insanity like this:

That's right, they converted the Plus Four into an off-road Safari-style contraption called the Plus Four CX-T.  No one needs this.  In fact I'm not sure anyone wants this.  And perhaps Morgan knows both assertions are true--they're only making eight and each will cost £170,000 (that's about $237,000 according to Google).

I'm conflicted.  On one hand, this seems like those stupid $300 Best Made hipster axes.  Just as the young man in Cobble Hill with a beard and beautiful black and white portrait tattoos will never actually fell anything with his fancy hatchet, no one is going to tear their quarter-million-dollar CX-T around dirt roads in Great Malvern only to wind up sitting on a cargo box staring off into the distance with a random make-shift campfire behind them.  Or maybe it's more like commercials from the 1980s that make relatively mundane or stupid toys seem exciting, typically by putting the kids in some awesome backyard with tons of rocks and trees and a creek.

On the other hand, I'm delighted that people are off proudly and passionately doing ridiculous shit like this.  They could've turned the Plus Four into some stupid seven-passenger SUV with fifteen cup holders, five TV screens, a digital gauge cluster, and no buttons on the dashboard.  Instead they made something really unique, albeit dumb.

Car guys are still out there!