MG4: The Bargain Of The Century??

[Music] do you know this is the most annoying episode of the fully charged show i've ever made 12 years i'm really angry you know because i've waited so long for somebody like this look at this this comes along now oh yeah no no it's really good now 12 years ago you couldn't get anything like this god to get a car that went as far as this on one charge 150 000 quid that was the tesla roadster the first car i ever drove on fully charged show this car now just as uh 200 miles if you don't know whatever like it's no big deal so annoying this this this car is it's if you could buy so many of these for the price of a tesla roadster i'll tell you how much it isn't a bit i'm not going to go on about it now but i'm really angry so that is the mg4 fantastic car and this is the fully charged show fully charged live is coming to california this september 10th and 11th powered by electrify america get your tickets to the number one ev and home energy show now [Music] so this is the mg4 it is a four-door family hatchback it's a small sensible car it's not a massive suv and for that they already get stars five gold stars from me just because it's such a so refreshing seas made from the ground up as an electric car this is the version is called the trophy and there's also the se the se has a 51 kilowatt hour battery it gives you 218 miles of range roughly and starts at a certain price which i'll talk about in a moment and then this one which is the one i've been driving i will be driving today this is 64 kilowatt hours this is the trophy 64 kilo hours with 280 miles of range uh and that's a little bit more expensive but not that much more expensive and still a lot cheaper than a lot of other competitor cars uh tell you the first thing i love about this car instantly as soon as i saw it forget all the looks forget what the range the speed the power the what i really loved is the name mg4 i can remember it it's not a whole string of weird numbers and letters or weird names based on spanish resorts or whatever else it's the mg4 it's like the id3 you can remember it and it's easy to remember and you you don't have to you know struggle so we've reviewed other mgs in the past the mg5 the mg ze zs ev so harder names to remember so this is their first this is mg's first uh you know absolutely uh built from the ground up with this new uh battery platform uh this modular battery platform so this the the design of the modular battery platform i mean this particular version is rear-wheel drive it can be four-wheel drive and i'll come on to that again later on but also it's scalable so this can go from somewhere around 40 kilowatt hours to like 150 kilowatt hours using the same modules obviously 150 kilowatts is going to be bigger and that's obviously for a bigger vehicle which there are it doesn't think they haven't done that yet but that's the way it's been designed with that with bear with that being born in mind so the this car is really the the first proper step i think in mg's journey to to 100 electric manufacturing [Applause] now when i first saw this car i saw it from the front and i was really impressed i thought it looked really nice when i saw the back i admit i was a bit challenged i was a bit challenged by that because it's got some stuff going on it's got this very big lip that goes all the way across there with the lights on it's got this is the in the trophy model it's got this extra wing thing which actually uses slightly more energy than without so it's not entirely obvious what that's all about but here's one of the little things that's just instantaneously good there's been quite a few cars i've come across where i didn't know how to open the back and you're looking for the thing it's just instantly obvious it's there it's obviously where it should be big roomy boot lots and lots of room trunk so plenty of room in the back for for what is relatively a small car really nicely built that is really a key thing there's the the actual fit and finish of this car charging very straightforward normal uh seven and eleven kilowatt ac charger for use at home then you take the old cap off and there you go your dc fast charging up to 120 kilowatts which is really good and that's just that's becoming more and more common with with new cars but one of the interesting things and we don't have the adapter here but there is an adapter you plug into the ac connector and you can run a domestic socket off it you can take power out of the car run things in boiler kettle have a little cooker have lights have a sound system have a you know electric bbq whatever i mean you could run a long extension cable into your house and run a load of lights if you were in a power cut you know i'm just saying you could do that so it is capable of doing that it's not a vehicle to grid or vehicle to house officially it's vehicle to load which i think is really good that they're doing that nice feature now walking around it now i'm really noticing the build quality is really peachy it's very very good the design language of the front is i think nothing too shocking or stunning or amazing i don't hate it i don't particularly love it but it's got a it's you know all works it all it feels tight and it feels well put together one thing that sets this car apart a little bit is this down here is that is an active intake grill that can open or close when it's closed it's more efficient there's less drag on the vehicle when it's open it's obviously cooling the uh the control system the battery management system that's under the bonnet it's a rear-wheel drive so the motor's back there so it keeps the batteries cool if they need to be but if you don't need to keep the batteries cool that closes off and it's more efficient you can go further on one charge these little scoops i think yes they blow they blow air over your wheels to make it more aerodynamic and that's a design feature that i've seen on quite a few things and it comes from like really high end very high speed vehicles and it's kind of worked its way down into normal cars but it's basically it's not too obtrusive the back i find a little bit of a weird look but i guess you'd get used to it and also i would definitely recognize it if i was driving along and was following this car you'd go that's an mg mg4 but this is is just sort of it's a bit car like [Music] big puddle i go through a big pub see what happens it doesn't leak [Music] not sure i love the steering wheel so it's got this funny flat bottom and then it just kind of threw me then it felt weird kind of wanted a i wanted a round steering wheel rather than a sort of squared off one it's not terrible but it did feel strange then when i really when i went sort of hard over right let's see see how nippy it is across junction rear wheel drive love that felt that then was conscious of it so i just prefer rear wheel drive maybe i'm old school but it's rear-wheel drive front wheel steering super super tight on the road very very confident feeling i wasn't at all alarmed at that i could feel all the power coming from the back 50 50 weight distribution perfect balance the front wheels are holding up exactly the same amount of weight as the rear wheels that is very unusual in old-fashioned cars that was a really hard thing to achieve in a car with a massive lump of steel in the front called a combustion engine so there are five driving modes there's snow which i'm obviously not going to be able to check that out now there's eco which i haven't tried i'm going to try that there is normal which is what i was in before and there is now there is sport and then there's custom so uh i don't quite know what custom will do maybe you can set it up yourself but this is sport mode now now i did give flora a couple of times before there's an interesting little delay it's not a massive i'm not noticing a huge difference but it's got i've got quite strong regen so i can turn the regen onto weak and then you just kind of that's sort of like freewheeling yeah you don't really slow down with the regen one of the things i can't tell with this is exactly how energy efficient it is three point okay now i can tell there is there is the information on the screen so 3.6 miles per kilowatt hour now that is not brilliant but i have been doing anything but careful driving i already can feel i could get that higher 3.6 is not rubbish the audi e-tron for instance gets about 2.5 the uh jaguar i-pace if you're really careful 2.6 2.7 and this is getting 3.5 now with me like definitely not driving it carefully and now we're driving in very heavy rain which uh when you drive a combustion car you're not aware of that when you drive in very heavy rain you burn more fuel than when you drive in dry conditions there is actually uh more resistance on the tyres from the water on the road i was never even aware of that but you use you do less miles to the gallon or kilometers to the liter when it's raining heavily and you also use more electricity you get less range when you're driving in heavy rain which i am now [Music] so instantly familiar interior as soon as i got onto this car just knew how to drive it's very very simple gear selector there just turn the knob off you go you don't it's got a parking brake it automatically disengages everything is automatic no you don't have to press a button to start it you sit in the car you turn that you go that is really good very very clear dash uh screen there really you know very easy to work out what's going on uh up here the software is is better than most the sat nav is okay the built-in sat nav pretty good i've seen a lot worse it's got it connects to your the good thing is it's got apple carplay and android auto which is so easy just plug your phone in and everything is on there that you recognize that will update that really works well so that is a brilliant feature a couple of things that were slightly more complicated took me a while to get used to so there's a star button on the steering wheel and that allows you to choose the thing that you instantly want to do so at the moment it's set to do the uh the heating and cooling so that it just does that automatically one button on the steering wheel and you can adjust everything with that but you can also use you can reset it so that it does the driver modes because the driver modes are a little bit buried in the menus but i now know i can press the star i could reprogram it so that it just brings up the driving modes not that you're going to change it a lot but i just wanted to have a go in the different modes and i'll be honest there wasn't a massive difference between eco normal and sport you know they were all fine i think if you drove in the eco mode you would get a longer range from it the actual quality of the materials you know i think for for the price of the car really really good incredibly comfy seats electrically operated you know you can't beat that a little bit forward and backwards with a little button a little bit of tip back that makes me happy that's very nice so let's have a look in the back now obviously i'm nowhere near the height of jack actually this is really comfy and loads of room you can see that's where i will have the seat for driving little pockets there usb charger uh iso fittings for kids seats you know and it's really kind of tidy and neat and plenty plenty of room really roomy i don't know about chat i mean i've got plenty of headroom there but i think jack is taller than me but he he does that clever thing where he sits like that then there's loads of room so look just to put it in perspective i'm only six inches shorter than jack so you know he's a bit bigger so he i think it's it would be cozy for mr scarlett it would be nice and cozy in the back but it's plenty room enough and it's much bigger than you expect from the outside it is very much like the id3 is similar size but there is a big difference between this car and the id3 so i needed to sit down for this bit because this is a little bit of a surprise bit of a shock but the car we've been driving today starts at starts at 25 995 pounds that is for a vehicle that has a 218 mile range has vehicle to load with a 100 pound adapter uh can charge to 80 in in 30 minutes has 120 kilowatt charging you know is a really well built car and it's under 26 000 pounds now just to give a comparison because you can say you can say to me that's a lot of money of course it is a lot of money but let's see what else you can get within the similar size of car similar range all that sort of stuff the renault zoe 31 000 it starts at the the uh the vauxhall corsa e 29 000. this is these all cars have very similar range to the the base the at the mg4 se the peugeot uh the e208 that is 30 000 pounds the id3 which is really the closest to this car in terms of size in terms of range in terms of build quality in terms of uh technology that you use in the car thirty six thousand pounds this is a full ten thousand pounds cheaper than the volkswagen id3 i think this car is going to make a big impact on the roads of the united kingdom and elsewhere [Music] very really impressed with this car i kind of knew i'd like it when i first saw it covered in camouflage i thought that is going to be interesting when that comes out because it's not a it's not an suv if nothing else this is not a compact suv or a big suv or a big heavy car this is a smaller lighter longer range electric car and what they're going to be doing with it next year is is very exciting for people who were possibly susceptible to the concept of the hot hatch we will see next year with the mg4 performance model four-wheel drive uh 77 kilowatt-hour battery naught to 60 sub 4 seconds proper hot match totally unnecessary but i can't help being slightly interested and i'm looking forward to test driving that next year because i'm going to bully jack to let me have a go even if he reviews it and does a much better job than i can do i'm just i just want to go in it otherwise it's not fair but uh yeah that is very interesting they decided to do that [Music] but this isn't the ending there's still a little bit more i want to tell you no there isn't really just please do subscribe to the fully charged show tell your mates about it have a look at the patreon link that's in the description box uh beneath this video and as always if you have been thank you for watching

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Length: 16min 4sec (964 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 31 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/knowknowknow]

I've been driving an MG5 for a few months now and am very impressed with it. Fantastic value for money. I would definitely consider another MG in the future if they keep this up.

[u/Peugeot905]

Good review. This MG4 ev looks like it’s going to be a big seller.