MG5 EV revealed - 214 mile range from £24,495

[rscott]

Mercury00 said:

That bloke is a dealer's worst nightmare. Going underneath with a torch and complaining about the lack of wax injection? Which cars come with wax injection from the factory?

Indeed - would many European cars be much different?

[RyanDD]

This car is quite tempting as the next family car.
It seems to offer all the basics that would reasonably be expected at a wallet friendly price.

I'm torn though as after a Zoe for 3-4 years now, I have seen the pain of public charging on longer journeys and can't help but think a second hand model 3 with access to the supercharger network on top of every CCS EVSE would be the smart place to put my money.

Tesla Shooting brake would make it a no contest, but I'm not flush enough for a coach built one.

[Toaster Pilot]

It’s certainly a strange choice to be faced with - you can’t buy a second hand TM3 for £24k can you?

[jamoor]

Toaster Pilot said:

It’s certainly a strange choice to be faced with - you can’t buy a second hand TM3 for £24k can you?

The resale on a TM3 though!

[SWoll]

RyanDD said:

This car is quite tempting as the next family car.
It seems to offer all the basics that would reasonably be expected at a wallet friendly price.

I'm torn though as after a Zoe for 3-4 years now, I have seen the pain of public charging on longer journeys and can't help but think a second hand model 3 with access to the supercharger network on top of every CCS EVSE would be the smart place to put my money.

Tesla Shooting brake would make it a no contest, but I'm not flush enough for a coach built one.

Would a used Kia e-Niro not make a lot of sense as an alternative? They must be dropping below £30k by now I'd have thought and 7 year warranty?

[RyanDD]

Toaster Pilot said:

It’s certainly a strange choice to be faced with - you can’t buy a second hand TM3 for £24k can you?

Not yet, but the Base SR Model 3 is just over £30k £40k

SWoll said:

Would a used Kia e-Niro not make a lot of sense as an alternative? They must be dropping below £30k by now I'd have thought and 7 year warranty?

I have certainly looked at them when they came out but I would rather a car than a SUV. They aren't ruled out, however they still suffer from charging access issue like the MG.

I'll report back with a final decision when it's made.

Edited by RyanDD on Saturday 14th November 21:52

[ElectricSoup]

I've seen the first few pre-reg ones appearing on autotrader now. They have a square rear number plate. How odd. I expect that's for the Chinese market, but you'd think they'd adapt the tailgate slightly for the UK market.

Anyway, I expect one of these will be my main family car in about 2 years time when I can get a depreciated second hand one.

[danp]

RyanDD said:

Toaster Pilot said:

It’s certainly a strange choice to be faced with - you can’t buy a second hand TM3 for £24k can you?

Not yet, but the Base SR Model 3 is just over £30k

Where from?!

[jamoor]

ElectricSoup said:

I've seen the first few pre-reg ones appearing on autotrader now. They have a square rear number plate. How odd. I expect that's for the Chinese market, but you'd think they'd adapt the tailgate slightly for the UK market.

Anyway, I expect one of these will be my main family car in about 2 years time when I can get a depreciated second hand one.

According to a YouTube video with someone from mg they are testing the model to see how it goes so I suspect they didn’t want to adapt the car unless they are sure there’s a market

[jjwilde]

RyanDD said:

Toaster Pilot said:

It’s certainly a strange choice to be faced with - you can’t buy a second hand TM3 for £24k can you?

Not yet, but the Base SR Model 3 is just over £30k

Where?! Hook a brother up!

[FeelingLucky]

jjwilde said:

RyanDD said:

Toaster Pilot said:

It’s certainly a strange choice to be faced with - you can’t buy a second hand TM3 for £24k can you?

Not yet, but the Base SR Model 3 is just over £30k

Where?! Hook a brother up!

Nowhere. It was a misrepresentation, or a lie, depending on your perspective. M3 is currently holding it's value astonishingly well. Don't expect to find one much below £35k

[Toaster Pilot]

ElectricSoup said:

I've seen the first few pre-reg ones appearing on autotrader now. They have a square rear number plate. How odd. I expect that's for the Chinese market, but you'd think they'd adapt the tailgate slightly for the UK market.

Anyway, I expect one of these will be my main family car in about 2 years time when I can get a depreciated second hand one.

One dealer is advertising one with a square number plate. All of the press cars used in reviews had a standard one but it’s a tight fit.

[danp]

FeelingLucky said:

Nowhere. It was a misrepresentation, or a lie, depending on your perspective. M3 is currently holding it's value astonishingly well. Don't expect to find one much below £35k

Think the lowest I’ve seen was £36k for ex-demo/ returns from Tesla themselves - they didn’t hang around.

[SWoll]

danp said:

FeelingLucky said:

Nowhere. It was a misrepresentation, or a lie, depending on your perspective. M3 is currently holding it's value astonishingly well. Don't expect to find one much below £35k

Think the lowest I’ve seen was £36k for ex-demo/ returns from Tesla themselves - they didn’t hang around.

Utter madness.

Cheapest on AT, totally standard (white + black), 15k miles, £37,995?



£2.5k extra gets you a brand new one with the new console, power boot, heat pump etc in 4-6 weeks. Who is going to buy that unless it drops below £35k?

[jjwilde]

What was the last car which held value like these?

People on 2 year PCPs will be laughing.

I look most days to try to snipe a cheap one, never seen anything close to a bargain. Plenty of non-tesla EVs have devalued tho. Crazy.

[sjg]

Tesla don't play the usual car industry game of having endless demos / management / staff cars that they register to make their numbers look good then sell off after 6 months. They also don't offload thousands to hire companies cheap, again to have back as good "approved used" stock within a year. They don't do cheap lease deals to offload excess factory build slots. They don't have dealership forecourts to keep full and busy.

They don't actually seem that fussed about anything to do with secondhand, just getting new cars out there. Hence the market for used Model 3s now is the very limited number of people who actually bought one and don't want it any more for whatever reason.

[ZesPak]

All of the above, the car hasn't been out that long. Not many people sell theirs already. Demand is high.

We'll see in a couple of years.

[jjwilde]

ZesPak said:

All of the above, the car hasn't been out that long. Not many people sell theirs already. Demand is high.

We'll see in a couple of years.

It's been 18 months, considering how many people on here will leap in to tell you what an ugly, impractical POS a model3 is very few owners want to be rid of them it would seem.

[ZesPak]

jjwilde said:

It's been 18 months, considering how many people on here will leap in to tell you what an ugly, impractical POS a model3 is very few owners want to be rid of them it would seem.

I'd also leap in and say that those people have actually never been near one .

[Gandahar]

RyanDD said:

This car is quite tempting as the next family car.
It seems to offer all the basics that would reasonably be expected at a wallet friendly price.

I'm torn though as after a Zoe for 3-4 years now, I have seen the pain of public charging on longer journeys and can't help but think a second hand model 3 with access to the supercharger network on top of every CCS EVSE would be the smart place to put my money.

Tesla Shooting brake would make it a no contest, but I'm not flush enough for a coach built one.

The Tesla supercharger network is a



I'm not sure why people cannot think ahead to the future?