Morgan Supersport 400 (2026) review

Exterior & design of the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

• Draws on classic Morgans
• Modern detailing
• Specific 400 badges and colours

A Morgan must always be a Morgan, and so while this Supersport 400 clearly follows in the stylistic wheel tracks of the likes of the Aero 8 and Aero Max - as well as being clearly influenced by the Pininfarina-designed Midsummer roadster and coupe - there's also still an obvious debt to the original Morgan Plus 4. The template for that car was laid down in the 1930s and was sealed more or less in aspic with the arrival of the distinctive curved radiator grille in the 1960s.

The Supersport 400 keeps that radiator grille shape, as well as the famous flowing wings and semi-exposed headlights, although of course these are LED units rather than dimly glowing incandescent bulbs.

There's a curious, but somehow bewitching, mixture of the olde-worlde and the cutting edge. The optional hardtop is made of carbon fibre, but the doors still have pop-off side screens with sliding windows, and the door mirrors are small, round and mounted on chrome stalks.

Instead of the traditional bonnet louvres of the Plus Four model, the Supersport gets a distinctive 'nostril' air vent just behind the grille, but the Supersport 400 gets another pair of grilles atop the front wings, which let out high-pressure air above the tyre and reduce lift at speed.

Other unique Supersport 400 touches are the '400' badges behind the front wheels and flashes of 'coral' reddish-pink trim around the lower reaches of the bodywork and on the brake calipers.

The alloys are of a dark-finished forged design, 19 inches in diameter, and come with Michelin Pilot Sport tyres, but there are still the classic three small windscreen wipers, necessary because the low, wide screen is too shallow for a conventional two-wiper setup to be of any use.

At the rear, the bodywork falls away with less of a sharp slope than in a traditional Morgan, which allows space for an actual boot, and it blends in beautifully with the hardtop.

Gorgeous? That's arguably down to personal taste, but without question the Supersport 400 is dramatic, striking and unique.

Dimensions of the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

Length:

4,110mm

Width:

1,805mm (mirrors folded)

Height:

1,290mm

Wheelbase:

2,520mm

Paint colours for the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

In a sense, this section could be endless. Morgan will, of course, happily provide you with a 'paint to sample' colour that is entirely bespoke, but there are some standard colours from which you can choose. Quite a few, as it happens.

There are four no-cost solid paint finishes - Sport Black, Sport Ivory, Sport Blue and Sport Green. Then you can pay around €1,100 for Sport Red, Dove Grey, Classic White, Dark Grey, Classic Blue, Almond Green, Safari Yellow, Lagoon Blue, Belfast Blue or Vermiglia Red.

Metallic choices all cost circa €1,900 (depending on the euro-Sterling exchange rate) and include Metallic Black, Dark Silver, Metallic Graphite, Ice Blue, Metallic Silver, Metallic Red, Metallic Green, White Gold, Alligator Green, Regal Grey, Edelweiss Green, Furka Rouge, Bahama Blue, Armeria Lilac, Sea Teal, Hill Green, Acer Red and Riviera Blue.

For the same price, you can have a satin finish - Forged Grey, Silk Silver (possibly the best colour), Sail Silver or Horizon Blue.

Finally, for a whopping €6,100 you can have a 'Solitallic' paint, which tries to mix the best of solid and metallic finishes, and which comes in Solitallic Sport Green, Solitallic Sport Blue, Solitallic Classic White or Solitallic Harbour Grey.

Wheels can be finished in Mid Silver or Bronze, or you can have the gorgeous 'Aerolite' wheels, which look as if they've come off a 1950s Le Mans racer. The front brake calipers can be black or Coral.

Interior, practicality, tech & comfort of the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

• Surprising space
• Gorgeous materials
• Some cheap plastic BMW bits

As with the outside, the Morgan Supersport 400's interior is a curious mix of the modern and the classical, and while it doesn't always make for a smooth blend, it is enticing and beautifully made.

You can quibble with the plastic BMW bits - the column stalks and the paddle shifters for the gearbox - but the wood, leather and body-coloured finish of our test car's dashboard all had a fantastic lustre, not to mention delightful details such as the solid leather sun visors, the neat sliding catches that double as internal door releases and the way you unclip the side screens for a fully open experience.

Getting comfortable in the driver's seat

Even with the hardtop fitted, it's surprisingly easy to slot yourself into the Morgan's seat, and those are the words of a large, chunky, late-middle-aged guy with a bad back.

Once in, the seat feels a little narrow, and you may spend the first few minutes of driving trying to adjust the seat a little lower (it doesn't actually adjust for height).

Soon, though, the seat and your back (and backside) start to find an equilibrium, so that what initially felt like a driving position that was slightly pinched and perched-up settles into something much more comfortable.

The three-spoke, Alcantara-covered steering wheel looks a little chunky, but it does adjust for height and reach and feels fantastic in your hands.

Over-the-shoulder visibility, thanks to the large rear screen of the hardtop, is unexpectedly good. Thankfully, Morgan has also finally managed to ditch the awkward-looking 'pistol grip' BMW gear selector that comes with the gearbox, replacing it with a neat, bespoke item that looks and feels a million times better (which it should, considering it's a €2,500 extra...).

Infotainment and technology

The cabin of the Morgan Supersport 400 is refreshingly free from needless tech. There's no big touchscreen, just a scattering of neat white-on-black gauges spread out across the dashboard, with the speedometer in its traditional 1930s position of almost in front of your passenger.

Behind the steering wheel there is a small LED screen, which gives you a speed readout and some other basic information, but - thankfully - that's it. The highest-tech items in the cabin are the Sennheiser stereo, which connects to your phone via Bluetooth (there's no head unit), and the neat rubber-lined wireless phone charger in front of the gearshift.

Electric windows? Nope, just slide the little Perspex panels built into the side screens forward if you want some cooler air (although there is air conditioning, which reaches you via a pair of eyeball vents mounted just below the dashboard).

There is a push-button engine start, but you still need to put a physical key into an ignition barrel and turn it to wake the Morgan up. It's brilliant.

Practicality around the cabin

Practicality isn't the Morgan's strong suit. Aside from the wireless charger for your phone (and only smaller phones will fit - if you have an iPhone Pro Max, you're out of luck), there is some handy storage space behind the seats and a small glovebox, but that's about it.

Travel light, and don't bother bringing a coffee cup with you unless you've spent the €140 extra on a small cupholder which, in any case, will be mounted between your passenger's legs.

That said, space inside the Morgan is decent. Both occupants have plenty of legroom and headroom, and there's less of the elbow-banging that you'd get in the narrower Morgan Plus Four.

Boot space in the Morgan Supersport 400

Traditionally, Morgans don't have boots. If you buy a Plus Four, for instance, the only luggage stowage is either behind the seats in a small well or on the optional luggage rack that slots over the rear-mounted spare wheel.

The Supersport 400 busts that tradition by having an actual proper boot. Pop it open by pressing a button on the key fob and there's 125 litres of carpeted space, with a neat section of the bodywork's ash-wood supporting structure left exposed by the open boot lid.

The downside is that if you want to remove the door side screens for truly open motoring, the boot is where they go and they pretty much fill it, so you're back to wedging soft bags behind the seats or under your passenger's knees (or having the luggage sent on ahead, of course).

Safety in the Morgan Supersport 400

The Supersport hasn't been tested by Euro NCAP, nor has any Morgan, so we don't have an independent safety rating. There is an airbag for the driver and another for the passenger, while anti-lock brakes, traction control and stability control are also standard.

Performance of the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

• One engine with two power outputs
• Automatic only
• Exceptionally quick

The Morgan Supersport comes with one engine - a turbocharged 3.0-litre straight-six from BMW called the 'B58'.

In standard form, this produces an impressive 340hp, but the 400, as per the name, stretches that further. In the Supersport 400 it produces up to 407hp and 500Nm of torque, which, allied to a skimpy kerb weight, makes for colossal performance.

Driving the Morgan Supersport 400 on UK roads

Words by Neil Briscoe on 2 September, 2026

We nose out of Morgan's factory in Malvern, remembering that the front wheels are proportionally much further away in this long-nosed sports car than is usually the case, and making small mental adjustments to account for that when dealing with tight junctions.

The BMW engine runs incredibly smoothly at low speeds, as most straight-sixes do (they're finely balanced), and the eight-speed ZF automatic slurs through its ratios almost without sensation.

You'd expect a sports car to be firmly sprung, but the roads around Malvern do not have glassy-smooth surfaces, and so the low-speed ride of the Supersport 400 is actually rather good. Firm, yes, but also yielding and not overly noisy.

There is a bit of racket caused by the carbon-fibre hardtop trapping road and engine noise, and there's a faint hint of gear whine at times, but overall the Supersport 400 is refined.

Find a quiet spot and plant the slim throttle pedal, mounted seemingly half a county away at the extremes of your stretched-out leg.

The Supersport 400's kerb weight is 1,170kg and you only need to allow an extra 10kg for the hardtop, so it is almost alarmingly light by modern vehicle standards. Thanks to that, and the extra power and torque of this tuned engine, the Supersport 400 absolutely lives up to its name and it lunges for the road ahead of you, ripping off a 0-100km/h run in just 3.6 seconds, or about as fast as some very quick electric cars.

The regular Supersport has been designed to be sharp and rewarding to drive, but the 400 gets lightly worked-over suspension to help it cope with the additional power, while the forged alloys reduce unsprung weight a little. There's also an optional sports exhaust, which allows the engine to mumble quietly at low speed before unleashing a rolling barrage of achingly beautiful noises when you accelerate hard.

It's almost a little shocking at first, that acceleration, but you soon adjust, and equally soon find yourself making good use of the chatty steering and a well-balanced chassis. The Morgan doesn't quite have the broader spread of abilities of, say, a Porsche 911 (which it matches quite closely in terms of price), but it's also more focused on fun than the Porsche and feels like a far more visceral driving experience.

Threading along some of the narrow B-roads across the Malvern Hills, you soon fall into a very pleasing rhythm of using that straight-six to reduce straight sections to nothing, while the low weight and quick steering make mincemeat of corners.

And then you slow down and amble through towns and villages, enjoying the smiles and waves of passers-by, especially small children who seem to adore the Morgan. In a Porsche, you'd be invisible. In the Morgan, you feel welcomed, which is an unusual sensation in modern motoring.

Fuel economy and running costs of the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

• Impressive economy for a sports car
• Low weight feeds a virtuous circle of efficiency
• No hybrid assistance

The Morgan Supersport 400 is an object lesson in how low weight makes everything better. And that extends to the economy.

Official emissions and fuel economy

Officially, the Morgan Supersport 400 uses 6.3 litres per 100km, and emits 180g/km of CO₂. That compares to 10.4 litres per 100km and 237g/km for a Porsche 911 Carrera S, which in fairness has more power than the Morgan, but which can't get next or near the Supersport's power-to-weight ratio.

Real-world fuel economy of the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

We averaged an impressive 7.5 litres/100km during our time with the Supersport 400, on a mixture of twisty mountain roads, gentler main roads and a little urban driving.

Servicing the Morgan Supersport 400

Morgan recommends servicing annually or every 16,000km, whichever comes first. Thankfully, this is relatively easy for Irish owners, as there's an authorised Morgan service and parts dealer in Cork.

Morgan Supersport 400 warranty

The Morgan Supersport 400 comes with a three-year, 58,000km warranty. For an extra payment of around €1,600, that can be extended by an additional year or 20,000km.

Irish pricing & rivals to the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400

• Endless options
• Reasonably priced in basic form
• Bespoke possibilities

You're going to be looking at the guts of €250,000 to import a Morgan Supersport 400 into Ireland, which is a heck of a lot of cash, and that's before you start delving into Morgan's bottomless array of options and bespoke items. Whether it's a special paint, a particular type of leather, custom graphics or... well, anything.

Rock up at Morgan with a shiny enough credit card and it'll more or less make what you want to happen. A shooting-brake body? It's probably possible.

It's expensive, but you have to take it in context. A Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet - arguably the closest rival to the Morgan - costs a broadly similar amount in Ireland, and again that's before a long and ruinous options list.

Porsche makes vastly more 911s than Morgan does Supersports, so you're getting far more exclusivity for the cash.

Verdict - should you buy the 2026 Morgan Supersport 400?

Absolutely, yes, 100 per cent. This is motoring as it was meant to be - fast, fun and with a car made in a genuinely artisanal way, rather than just stamped out in a faceless factory. It's not cheap, true, but you could spend multiples on a hypercar that wouldn't be half so enjoyable. Practical enough to use every day? Pretty much, yes, with a bit of understanding and effort on your part.

The Morgan Supersport 400 is more than fast enough for anyone's purposes, truly fun to drive and looks like nothing else on Earth.