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Finally, I've found something worth trying before I die. The clutch on the Morgan is quite possibly the least accurately described noun I've ever encountered. Clutch implies travel in the mechanism over its release . I was trying to think where I'd encountered a mechanism like the Morgan clutch elsewhere in my travels and finally I remembered. On the HMS Kent, the Millennium Warship which we shot and reviewed at DSEi 2007 there is a Supergun to the fore at the bow on the weather deck. Three stories below there's a console
 
called fire control. Underneath that console is a little button on the floor. This is the trigger for the Supergun on deck, a gun so powerful no-one is allowed on deck during its firing. This trigger is the maritime counterpart of the Morgan clutch, its like a floor depressed trigger, release for super grunt, depress for no grunt.
This is the consequence of taking a BMW 5 Series engine and putting it in a car that weighs about one-quarter as much. Less than 900 Kg of Superformed Aluminium bedecked Chassis is rocketed heavenwards by the Attenuation controlled variable valve lift and timed engine. In fact the Cabin structure when stripped
 
down looks decidedly like two F1 cars welded together, which would explain the driving experience. Its like road legal F1 but with someone to share it with.
The retro-chic styling even on the beautiful Aero Range flatters to deceive. This is a Race Car; race car brakes (Caparo T1), race car tyres (low rimmed, double aggregated and useful), a body shaped cabin structure and nowhere to put the elbows. Getting out consists of two options, either remove the steering wheel a la Michael Schumacher or fully retract the seat. Of the three trillion customisable options on the Aero Max a removable steering wheel is not included.
 
 
 
 
 
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