MG eZS

[ajprice]

Otispunkmeyer said:

Think MG could become a kind of Dacia of EVs with this?

Their ICE cars aren't good enough really and you can get similarly cheap and likely better from the likes of Dacia anyway.

But as a cheap EV, maybe they will turn heads.

Until the actual Dacia EV cars turn up . The MG does seem decent though, and it's essentially their version 1 EV. They are going to bring other EV models to follow this up.

[Witchfinder]

gangzoom said:

I can only think its the desperation of people trying to get into EVs, but this thing is surely the very thing anti EV trolls have been going on about since the start of EVs.........A soulless box on wheels.

They're are plenty of interesting, fast EVs. All of them are disgustingly expensive. This is the way we get mass adoption of EVs. I hope MG sell loads of them.

[Frimley111R]

SpikeBmth said:

Had a quick look at the prototype today.. As above basic, but affordable.

TBH that doesn't look basic in any way from the photos.

[WonkeyDonkey]

Honestly it's better looking than any of the German lot can manage for a car of a similar size.

[familyguy1]

this does look very interesting. Of course price is a factor, but the boot size for a family and the range i think could well sway me.

[RazerSauber]

I suspect this is the start of the Chinese car integration and uprising. I quite like the look of this, I like larger cars and things that are cheap. I'd be tempted by one of these in the future for a runabout to fit me and all my rubbish I tend to haul around. Smart charger on the drive somewhere and just plug it in when I get home. I like the idea of that. I just hope the rest of the build quality holds up, we don't need reminding how poor cheap chinese stuff can get.

[SpikeBmth]

Frimley111R said:

TBH that doesn't look basic in any way from the photos.

Maybe it the "retro" swept needle dials for speed and power

[jjwilde]

Lovely car and they have almost hit their 1000 preorders goal. If it was not for the Model3 I'd be seriously considering this. I'd absolutely recommend this as the car down from the 3. New Leaf is a mess.

[clarki]

My mum pre-ordered one last week. First of our family to go EV. 6 month delivery time apparently.


Seems to be well equipped. Looking forward to having a go.

[Zoon]

Got to hand it to them, the design is inoffensive and the price is right.
7 year warranty as standard.

[Witchfinder]

Zoon said:

Got to hand it to them, the design is inoffensive and the price is right.
7 year warranty as standard.

Think that's just the battery warranty, not the whole car.

https://youtu.be/RAcK8EZ1GI8

[sjg]

Whole car has 7 year / 80k mile warranty, with usual exclusions and limits (like suspension stuff is 36 months / 45k miles), similar to the Koreans.

Details here: https://mg.co.uk/owners/warranty/

[Dave Hedgehog]

Zoon said:

Got to hand it to them, the design is inoffensive and the price is right.
7 year warranty as standard.

very tempting, a bargain

[mat1]

I have put a deposit down just in case. Looks to be about £6000 more expensive than the petrol version for the top spec in metallic. £24,040 vs £18,195

That's about 40,000 city petrol miles. It would take me about 5 years to drive that so I'm not sure this actually makes a lot of sense for me.

I do have a Ltd company though so maybe the new BIK changes will be the ticket? Trying to figure out the best way of buying


Edit - Looks like you can get an in-stock ZS exclusive for £15,500. That's more like £7500 between electric and petrol :O

Edited by mat1 on Tuesday 30th July 11:38

Edited by mat1 on Tuesday 30th July 18:26

Edited by mat1 on Tuesday 30th July 18:32

[Witchfinder]

Seems like a pretty good warranty then. If you keep the car 5 years, the fuel saving will pay for itself. Even if you don't, EVs currently enjoy strong residuals. I reckon it's worth paying the bit extra.

[oop north]

mat1 said:

I do have a Ltd company though so maybe the new BIK changes will be the ticket? Trying to figure out the best way of buying

Not far off tax free through your company as long as you can delay delivery beyond 5 April 2020

[Glasgowrob]

that actually looks pretty decent,

big enough boot decent warranty and enough range to be useable.


if its screwed together right could be a cracking buy

[Dave Hedgehog]

only 3 stars for the ICE version

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/mg/zs/29657

[kambites]

Dave Hedgehog said:

only 3 stars for the ICE version

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/mg/zs/29657

Yup, these days it's impossible to get more without a host of electronic safety nets which the ICE ZS doesn't have. The EV does have some of them, so it's likely to do a bit better.

Given that our current mk2 Octavia almost certainly couldn't even score 1 star on today's NCAP test, I wouldn't be overly worried about replacing it with one of these.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 31st July 10:55

[Dave Hedgehog]

kambites said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

only 3 stars for the ICE version

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/mg/zs/29657

Yup, these days it's impossible to get more without a host of electronic safety nets which the ICE ZS doesn't have. The EV does have some of them, so it's likely to do a bit better.

Given that our current mk2 Octavia almost certainly couldn't even score 1 star on today's NCAP test, I wouldn't be overly worried about replacing it with one of these.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 31st July 10:55

adult 71% and child 51% are very low thou, seat arona gets 95% and 80%