RE: MG 6 | Shed of the Week
Discussion
Cambs_Stuart said:
Good value for money, but the least interesting shed for a long time...
Yup. What happened to Shed being interesting and even a little bit risky? "Here's a potentially sensible but boring car for £2k" isn't much fun. Shame it's limited to the PH ads. This could be a really good article again with a sniff round Ebay/Facebook/Gumtree where most of the interesting cheap cars live.
J4CKO said:
My parents bought a nearly new one in 2012, it did fine for a good few years with nothing but minor niggles, replaced it with a Qashgai which is better.
Never drove it but was a passenger in it a few times, seemed ok, not exactly an Audi interior by a long way but did the job.
And “Given up on life”, for buying a car that isn’t trendy or cool ? Would say it’s more applicable to folk who trot out 15/20 year old Clarkson comments.
This looks quite presentable for two grand, personally not something I would buy but it’s about a lot of money for a four door decent sized car that doesn’t look knackered.
Spot on! and i love the clarkson ref, how true...Never drove it but was a passenger in it a few times, seemed ok, not exactly an Audi interior by a long way but did the job.
And “Given up on life”, for buying a car that isn’t trendy or cool ? Would say it’s more applicable to folk who trot out 15/20 year old Clarkson comments.
This looks quite presentable for two grand, personally not something I would buy but it’s about a lot of money for a four door decent sized car that doesn’t look knackered.
Portofino said:
Certainly good clean basic transport for the price as long as it all checks out.
Interestingly, there’s an old boy down the road from me who used to be a racing driver, MG’s in particular who has 2 of the new MG suv things on his drive.
I wonder if he realises they are Chinese now?
I would think so, so shows the shrewd choice for them to use the MG brand as it still holds a lot of appeal to a lot of people.
Absolutely, I know someone who bought an MG a couple of years ago because they wanted something British. This same person would bang on about how the new MINI's were all German made...Interestingly, there’s an old boy down the road from me who used to be a racing driver, MG’s in particular who has 2 of the new MG suv things on his drive.
I wonder if he realises they are Chinese now?
I would think so, so shows the shrewd choice for them to use the MG brand as it still holds a lot of appeal to a lot of people.
For sure, it’s not an XJ8 or E60 shed this week, but…….
If you have a young family, mortgage crippling you and everything going up in price relentlessly. Buy this and run it until it breaks to transport the wife and kids around for the price of three months PCP on a brand new Korean SUV.
Looks a no brainier to me.
If you have a young family, mortgage crippling you and everything going up in price relentlessly. Buy this and run it until it breaks to transport the wife and kids around for the price of three months PCP on a brand new Korean SUV.
Looks a no brainier to me.
Mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand it’s a very sensible buy and will serve someone very well as transport. On the other it reminds me of those people of my parents generation who insisted on buying British and ended up with Marinas and Princesess.
On balance it’s probably a bit too Terry & June for me.
On balance it’s probably a bit too Terry & June for me.
It wouldn't tempt me out of my current daily shed which cost the same amount to buy.
I do like the 1.8 K-series engine having had one in an mgf and the side profile on these isn't as offensive as some other modern cars but the rest of its exterior looks and interior isn't my thing and not something I would consider owning.
I tend to have one main car/daily and lifes to short for that to be an MG6. No doubt an absolute bargain for someone though, should be fairly reliable and cheap to keep on the road.
I do like the 1.8 K-series engine having had one in an mgf and the side profile on these isn't as offensive as some other modern cars but the rest of its exterior looks and interior isn't my thing and not something I would consider owning.
I tend to have one main car/daily and lifes to short for that to be an MG6. No doubt an absolute bargain for someone though, should be fairly reliable and cheap to keep on the road.
Proper shed. These and the MG3 are great low cost cars for the financially 'astute'.
The MG6 was the car that would gallingly pop up in the Autotrader searches for fast hatches regardless of what you adjusted the settings to. That is proper perseverance right there.
People these days don't know the meaning of the word shed.
The MG6 was the car that would gallingly pop up in the Autotrader searches for fast hatches regardless of what you adjusted the settings to. That is proper perseverance right there.
People these days don't know the meaning of the word shed.
That's "alright". It's a car and I'm sure it'll get itself and the occupants from A to B in a reasonable fashion. My only reason to not buy this is that something like a Mondeo, Insignia or even a Vectra would be a better buy, for less money, and would probably be more reliable, more economical and easier to get parts for. Still, not the worst car on the market, I'm sure.
Om said:
Proper shed. These and the MG3 are great low cost cars for the financially 'astute'.
People these days don't know the meaning of the word shed.
You what? Back when Garlick did it it used to mean things like Rovers SD1 V8s, Porsche 924s and at one point a Mazda RX7 IIRC! The point of the column used to be "here's an interesting car for so little money it doesn't matter if it breaks down", not "here's some crushingly sensible cheap transport". Stuff like this MG only found its way in more recently as the market tightened.People these days don't know the meaning of the word shed.
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