The Morgan Motor Company’s facility on Pickersleigh Road in Malvern is a car factory like no other. Founded in 1913, it’s a living, breathing piece of history – not just in its foundations, but in the traditional skills and techniques that are still practised here. But behind the unashamedly traditional exterior there’s a company that’s also keen to embrace modern production methods and processes.

Nowhere is this unique blend of old and new better demonstrated than with the company’s latest flagship model, the Plus Six. Its body is little different in style or construction to the Morgan 4/4 that debuted in 1936, with aluminium panels draped over an ash frame. But underneath that sits a bonded and riveted aluminium platform that houses a turbocharged BMW straight six and an eight-speed ZF automatic transmission…