MG4 - Cheap, Chinese EV (ENG) - Test Drive and Review
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- MG - a British brand once associated with sports cars - today owned by the Chinese giant SAIC makes among others a compact EV called the MG4. It looks like it could compete against the VW ID. 3. But does it? And why is it so cheap? Let’s find out.
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↔ MG4 dimensions:
✔ length: 4287 mm
✔ width: 1836 mm
✔ height: 1504 mm
✔ wheelbase: 2705 mm
✔ boot/trunk: 363-1177 L
💲 MG4 51 kWh starting price: 34 990 euro
💲 MG4 Comfort 64 kWh price as tested: 39 990 euro
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Chapters:
0:00 intro
0:30 dimensions
1:14 design
2:30 boot
3:10 rear seat
3:55 cockpit
6:40 driving impressions
9:30 energy consumption
10:55 performance
11:40 visibility
12:05 pricing
13:05 conclusion 
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Thanks for mentioning visibility. This is usually ignored in commercial reviews..
The price in New Zealand for that model is just over 29000 Euro including 15% goods and services tax. As NZ and Australia both have free trade agreements with China, there are no tariffs on their vehicles here.
The VW ID3 is not sold here, but the ID4 is approx 34000 Euro.
Go to china, get an ID 4 for 18k. Import. Still cheaper.
They are very popular in the UK, I see them everywhere and I understand why
Assuming you just need a city runabout, at this price point it's a bargain.
My car, bought nearly a year ago, has the outside temperature display. Its removal was a bug introduced by a subsequent software update. The good news is there is an even more recent software update that fixes that and quite a few other things. I've just been on to my dealer to arrange to have this update applied.
The MG4 was Europe’s 4th best selling EV in 2023, outselling the Volkswagen ID.3 and Renault Mégane E-Tech, despite the fact that MG is currently not available in all European countries.
ID.3 is a bar set very low :)
Commie wagon built by Uhygur detainees and bought by cheap skates!
They are great. Every time you see one you know there’s a cheap idiot with no morals nearby!
I do like the design of the id3 but the touch controls are the work of satan, the car is slow and interior nasty. Come on VW do better. Golf 7.5 last good car made. @@MarekDrivesENG
Fully agree. We just got a 2020 Kia eSoul fully loaded slightly used for 15000km and still 3 years on the Kia warranty for 25000 Euro. That is the competition for this car. The Kia is our first all electric, so its going to be interesting.
Why don’t charging cables fit in the rear hatch - where plastic trim cover is on the inside in the area directly behind the number plate but accessed from inside the boot? When hatch it opened cables immediately accessible.
To store under the floor is daft as have to empty the boot when full.
I suppose that area has some reinforcement in case of rear-end collision, so not ideal for storage.
Leasing one of these soon. It's cheap and it drives nicely which is always the most important combination.
No need to compare its design to others. This design is completely original
If the rest of the car was as good as the design, VW could pack their bags. It's a good budget car, but a budget car nonetheless.
The rustling you hear is the ghost of Cecil Kimber turning in his grave.
I love Mao's Garage
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EV tech is moving so fast that i'm not considering changing until my car is economically unviable to repair but I do like to keep up to date with the progress and MG has moved things forward. Will see what Telsa Model 2 does and next generation of ID3 possibly if they fix the controls and improve the cabin quality and power. Right now if my car died i'd probably get a used BMW 330e or a mark 7.5 Golf Gti, both lovely cars and good used buys with good mix of economy and driving joy.
Seems reasonable enough aside from the annoying mandated assists and strong regen default. I recently discovered regen braking causes me to be profoundly motion sick. It's something I've struggled with all my life but the combination of high torque and aggressive regen is really pushing the buttons. Most EV and hybrid taxis here are set up this way.
MG's SW is its biggest issue, that and the dealer behaviour. You don't have the outside temperature because they didn't bother updating the damn thing. There are now multiple SW updates which drastically improved customer behaviour as well as making the lane keep assist more livable. I have the UK trophy version (believe that's luxury spec in the EU) and I definitely miss having a heat pump but I would no way in hell pay 5-7k more just to have a VW.
Right now, keep your eye on BYD, they are rapidly coming from behind and will likely overtake many legacy manufacturers, making MG have to fight for its position even more.
where I live the base version is ~31k€
It's a nice looking EV. I've seen quite a few of them around where I live (Manchester, UK). Still too much for me. I've just bought a year old Ioniq Hybrid that is incredibly cheap to run, and I'll stick with that for now.
That car starts at 22300 euro here in Thailand, that's inclusive a home charging point and the first year insurance...... Overpriced in Europe
They are quite popular here in Australia. Approx $40k AUD, so very well priced. Not too sure about your comment re VW quality. My experience with VW has been that they are very unreliable. Having said that, I don't think I'd buy an MG4 either. Concerned about reliability and resale value.
I was referring to the general interior quality in VWs. Also I never had any problems with VWs (including those in my family). I just think the new ones (Mk8 Golf, etc.) are crap :)
Same opinion here. VW might have good design, but seem to be a bit famous for unreliability
26k euro in Ireland at moment
6:33 No attempt to hide the cubby and glovebox lamp bulbs. Bit cheap. 8:08 That screen looks very unresponsive.
That's my flashlight to shine some light in there.
The infotainment is OKish, but nothing to write home about.
By pressing the regen settings while the one pedal is active, then pressing the one pedal when it is a swipe function, demonstrates either incompetence, or a malicious attempt to demonstrate an irrasponsive screen.
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This one has bad noise insulation too in my country
Unfortunately the case with most cheap cars, a 15 year old s class is so much more refined at higher speeds 😢
Turn the radio up
I think you need to lower down your expectation on a cheap car. This has better isolation than a Hyundai Kona and Hyundai Ioniq.
VW quality!? Please...
Sure VW have quality, quality emissions software and quality software in their EV’s……not !
I think it looks Good. 😎.
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so Mg4 or Tesla Model y?
TMY hands down.
Always a very informative review. The MG is not for me.
I wonder why you feel the need to say that? I don't troll car videos of cars I've decided don't suit me so I can tell everybody so.
@moragkerr9577 ...sorry....who are you? Oh that's right....a nobody. 🤣
@@AHarker100What a considered and mature response. I am suitably chastened.
@moragkerr9577 .... still haven't learnt your lesson. My conversation is not with you.
@@AHarker100 Welcome to the internet. You must be new here.
I'll keep my Mk6 Golf gti thankyou very much. 14 years old and just sailed though the MOT. Thats a cheap car. If I bought this thing I'd never recoup the savings in 10 years and stuck with joyless, souless highly depreciating car. Saying that this was a fair review well done.
I changed my 2009 Golf GTi Mk6 for this car and I'm absolutely delighted with it! The car is giving me even more joy than the GTi did, though it's hard to explain why. The car actually seems to have *more* personality, which I wasn't really expecting. And the drive quality? Wow!
Have you actually driven an MG4? Because if you haven't, I don't think you have much ground for declaring it joyless or soul-less. And who knows about depreciation? Only time will tell, and I don't really care, because I have every intention of keeping the MG4 as long as I kept the Golf, and any residual value by that time is gravy.
This MG sells for around £11000 in China where its made so add £500 for transport and 20% rip off tax so about £14000 in the UK the rest is pure profiteering nothing else
I heard a theory on DW that Chinese brands are keeping prices higher for Europe to avoid being associated with low quality.
Assuming this is true, it also gives them some wiggle room if they get slapped with a tax in the EU.
I did the math on it in the UK. It's a nonsense car for me but the finance deals are very aggressive to try and move these.
@@MarekDrivesENGEurope countries have very high taxes on chinese evs so that make it expensive than China
The cooperation with MG saved our local Ford dealer. The MG4 sells like hot cakes.
This is a terrible review. The base model? Why? The Essence MG4 is a more interesting car. Android Auto isn’t the only smart device worth mentioning (just a hint!) Your comments must be based on OLD firmware.
buy a toyota lexus hybrid much reliable, dump the ev anxiety, evi expensive repair costs will wipe out all your ev savings 3 times more than petrol ice cars, ev are worth paying only £2k because of expensive repair costs when it becomes faulty
I'm laughing my head of at the pathetic android auto. I bought a new headunit for my car that has wait for it... Instant turn on, wireless android auto and full android! 8 core, 12gb ram and 0.5Tb of storage for 300ish euro. With trim to fit specially my car. Rear camera 1080p. Fully 1080p display etc.
Unfortunately all the cheap EVs, and even some of the more expensive ones, seem to have crappy underpowered infotainment systems. As far as I can tell the only company to put enough grunt into it was Tesla, even though I dislike their all-touch-screen approach at least they did it well.
@@goatofpower 100% Telsa is the W, but I want a headup display or a small pod, I don't like everything on one big screen, especially at night.
35000 euros base model for this chinese crap? At the moment of this comment in my country there are brand new skoda octavia RS with 245hp that sell for the same money. Who in the world would buy this crap instead of that? 🙄
People that don't want petrol cars.
@@natoftw Do these people exist? Who in the right mind would go for this instead of 10 times better car? What are the benefits of throwing 35k for this orange apliance over the Skoda RS for example?
@@strezificationcheaper running cost? Some people doesnt care about 245hp, they just want something that is cheap to run that can get them from A to B
@@strezification They sure do.
@@ohongho If you know at least something about cars you would know that the higher initial price and the negligible diference in running cost per mile still benefits fossil fuel cars on the short and long term. EVs are just a big scam for liberal brainwashed sheeps which brain is shuted down 24/7