MG is Now the UK's Fastest-Growing Car Brand!
Discussion
MG is currently growing over +100% YoY.
The overall UK car market today is shrinking -5% YoY.
MG is now the fastest-growing car brand in the UK.
Have you bought one? Will you buy one?
Discuss.
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrati...
The overall UK car market today is shrinking -5% YoY.
MG is now the fastest-growing car brand in the UK.
Have you bought one? Will you buy one?
Discuss.
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrati...
akirk said:
Year 1 - sell 1 car
Year 2 - sell 2 cars
wow 100% sales increase...
stats can be meaningless, and MG is now an insignificant player in the UK market
Could be even more dramatic.Year 2 - sell 2 cars
wow 100% sales increase...
stats can be meaningless, and MG is now an insignificant player in the UK market
Year 1 - 1 car
Year 2 - 10 cars.
1000% sales increase.
I've not seen one of these on my normal daily commute. Heck, I've seen more McLarens on my commute .... (only 1, but that is still 1 more than I've seen new MGs)
- edit* should have read the article first. Derp.
Edited by clonmult on Monday 5th March 14:30
And as to the OP, MG year to date have sold 661 cars (up from 316 in 2017) giving them a massive 0.27% share of the UK market. Interesting to note what I would term their closest rival, Dacia, have sold 3169!
I suppose we may guffaw at MG but they have sold some 200 more units than Alfa Romeo and more too than Jeep and Subaru in terms of mainstream brands
I suppose we may guffaw at MG but they have sold some 200 more units than Alfa Romeo and more too than Jeep and Subaru in terms of mainstream brands
Edited by E36GUY on Monday 5th March 14:48
It's easy to produce impressive %age increases when your monthly sales are barely out of single figures!
As for 'would I buy one'. It would have to be a very good deal, and I would have to live somewhere other than where I do at the moment because the local MG dealer (and the only one in practical driving distance) is completely useless.
How do I know? For some crazy reason my work decided to get an MG6 DTi TSE as a pool car. It was very, very well equipped considering it cost about £6500 less than a mainstream equivalent - heated leather seats, sat nav, cruiser control, DAB/Bluetooth, two-zone climate control, parking sensors etc. etc.
Within a week of delivery it refused to start because of a failed gearlever position sensor so it couldn't confirm it was in neutral. That was fixed easily enough.
It was actually very good to drive (for a diesel FWD large hatch) - excellent ride/handling balance, good roll control, very positive and grippy front end, nice hydraulic PAS with linear inputs and perfect feedback. The engine was very gutsy in the low/mid range in the way of most modern VGT diesels, it did about 50+ MPG and was a quiet, refined and relaxed cruising machine. NVH and wind noise were a couple of pegs below the modern norm. The interior was very well screwed together (easily as solid and squeak-free as any European contemporary) and the quality of the materials was generally pretty good, although there were some nasty easily-scratched surfaces on the door bins and kickplates, the carpets were very thin and synthetic and the seat leather was certainly not from a cow. The gearchange was exactly like an early Maestro with the VW 4-speed box - very vague, very rubbery, had to find the gears by muscle memory. The clutch was like the one from a Series II Land Rover.
After 6 months it began flagging up engine managment warning lights when on heavy throttle or high RPM. It went back to the dealer, they applied an ECU update and the problem went away for a couple of months, then returned. It went back to the dealer, they solved the problem for a week, and then it came back. Repeat a few more times. Then it became impossible to find any of the gears other than 1st and 3rd. The dealer fitted a new gearbox which had an improved (but still pretty terrible) change and an even heavier clutch. The warning light problem remained. Then the car began going into 'limp home' mode instead of just the light coming on. After going back and forth to the dealer, which said they could never get the car to repeat the problem and that the diagnostics never logged any faults, they (begrudingly) applied another update to the ECU which at least got rid of the limp-home problem, although the warning light would still come on virtually every trip. Then the car started having a nasty 'thrum' at motorway cruising speeds which turned out to be a failed hydraulic engine mount. Despite the car being in warranty the dealer refused to fix it. My company then tried to prematurely cancel their lease, being willing to eat the cost in return for getting rid of such a troublesome car, and the dealer basically wouldn't allow it. So, as far as I know, they just refused to pick the car up and it's probably still at the dealer four years later. Certainly we never saw it in the car park again.
So, in short, it was a typical MG - excellent to drive, decent enough in itself but let down by under-spec and poor-quality design/build and terrible dealer service.
By contrast, I borrowed an MG3 for a weekend just after they came out and it was superb. It's was like an old-school 1980s hot hatch (1.5 litre 16v naturally aspirated engine with 100+bhp, hydraulic PAS, front disc/rear drum brakes, a torsion beam rear end and weighing only about 1100kg) and, like the MG6, it had superb dynamics and handling. The engine was pretty grumbly and it drank fuel by modern standards but it was akin to driving a better-made and more-solid feeling Peugeot 205 1.6 GTi. And in 1000+ hard-driven miles it never missed a beat or had any glitches, errors or failings of any sort.
If I had the means and the need, I would consider an MG3, provided I was near a decent enough dealer. But I like old cars, and I could absolutely understand the average punter (or many PHers) being horrified at how 'old-school' the MG3 felt and running a mile.The rest of the stuff I wouldn't touch with a bargepole - they're just not good/cheap enough to warrant the risk of putting up with all the flaky build quality.
As for 'would I buy one'. It would have to be a very good deal, and I would have to live somewhere other than where I do at the moment because the local MG dealer (and the only one in practical driving distance) is completely useless.
How do I know? For some crazy reason my work decided to get an MG6 DTi TSE as a pool car. It was very, very well equipped considering it cost about £6500 less than a mainstream equivalent - heated leather seats, sat nav, cruiser control, DAB/Bluetooth, two-zone climate control, parking sensors etc. etc.
Within a week of delivery it refused to start because of a failed gearlever position sensor so it couldn't confirm it was in neutral. That was fixed easily enough.
It was actually very good to drive (for a diesel FWD large hatch) - excellent ride/handling balance, good roll control, very positive and grippy front end, nice hydraulic PAS with linear inputs and perfect feedback. The engine was very gutsy in the low/mid range in the way of most modern VGT diesels, it did about 50+ MPG and was a quiet, refined and relaxed cruising machine. NVH and wind noise were a couple of pegs below the modern norm. The interior was very well screwed together (easily as solid and squeak-free as any European contemporary) and the quality of the materials was generally pretty good, although there were some nasty easily-scratched surfaces on the door bins and kickplates, the carpets were very thin and synthetic and the seat leather was certainly not from a cow. The gearchange was exactly like an early Maestro with the VW 4-speed box - very vague, very rubbery, had to find the gears by muscle memory. The clutch was like the one from a Series II Land Rover.
After 6 months it began flagging up engine managment warning lights when on heavy throttle or high RPM. It went back to the dealer, they applied an ECU update and the problem went away for a couple of months, then returned. It went back to the dealer, they solved the problem for a week, and then it came back. Repeat a few more times. Then it became impossible to find any of the gears other than 1st and 3rd. The dealer fitted a new gearbox which had an improved (but still pretty terrible) change and an even heavier clutch. The warning light problem remained. Then the car began going into 'limp home' mode instead of just the light coming on. After going back and forth to the dealer, which said they could never get the car to repeat the problem and that the diagnostics never logged any faults, they (begrudingly) applied another update to the ECU which at least got rid of the limp-home problem, although the warning light would still come on virtually every trip. Then the car started having a nasty 'thrum' at motorway cruising speeds which turned out to be a failed hydraulic engine mount. Despite the car being in warranty the dealer refused to fix it. My company then tried to prematurely cancel their lease, being willing to eat the cost in return for getting rid of such a troublesome car, and the dealer basically wouldn't allow it. So, as far as I know, they just refused to pick the car up and it's probably still at the dealer four years later. Certainly we never saw it in the car park again.
So, in short, it was a typical MG - excellent to drive, decent enough in itself but let down by under-spec and poor-quality design/build and terrible dealer service.
By contrast, I borrowed an MG3 for a weekend just after they came out and it was superb. It's was like an old-school 1980s hot hatch (1.5 litre 16v naturally aspirated engine with 100+bhp, hydraulic PAS, front disc/rear drum brakes, a torsion beam rear end and weighing only about 1100kg) and, like the MG6, it had superb dynamics and handling. The engine was pretty grumbly and it drank fuel by modern standards but it was akin to driving a better-made and more-solid feeling Peugeot 205 1.6 GTi. And in 1000+ hard-driven miles it never missed a beat or had any glitches, errors or failings of any sort.
If I had the means and the need, I would consider an MG3, provided I was near a decent enough dealer. But I like old cars, and I could absolutely understand the average punter (or many PHers) being horrified at how 'old-school' the MG3 felt and running a mile.The rest of the stuff I wouldn't touch with a bargepole - they're just not good/cheap enough to warrant the risk of putting up with all the flaky build quality.
kambites said:
Interesting (and surprising) to note that they've sold more cars so far this year than Alfa.
That doesn't actually surprise me. Alfa don't currently have that many new models for sale these days. Well, in terms of normal day-to-day cars that you see being used on the roads daily.6 to be exact. The website classes the normal Giulia and the Quadrifoglio as two separate cars and then there's the 4C. Other than that, it's the Mito, Giulietta and the Stelvio.
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