MG4 x-power

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drgoatboy

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1,626 posts

207 months

Thursday 11th April
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WCZ said:
the lane control thing is insane, everyone absolutely hates it and is completely sick of it

some people are starting to even get them mapped out so you don't have to navigate through the menus to disable it
Is this an mg4 comment or just a general new car comment as they all seem to have it!

bomster

183 posts

112 months

Monday 15th April
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XPower or Born V2? Same price on my SS scheme with work.

430 trumps 230bhp, but I guess otherwise the Cupra is the nicer and better put together car. Then again the Cupra is somehow over 100kg heavier so perhaps the MG is the nicer steer.

Thoughts? Anyone spent time in both?

ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Monday 15th April
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ID3 to X-Power for me.

There's really no comparison. The ID3 was a hateful car in many ways. The X-Power has it's niggles but I'd take it everytime over the ID3. I doubt the Born is that much different.


ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Monday 15th April
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The power is nice too. I jump back into ICE cars now and they feel broken.

Downward

3,597 posts

103 months

Monday 15th April
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Depends what you want.
The Born looks nicer has nicer interior.
The X Power is faster though. So much faster.

ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Monday 15th April
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Born probably more efficient too. I seem to be averaging 2.2 over the first 2500 miles.

I'm sure it was more like 3.5 in the ID3.

bomster

183 posts

112 months

Monday 15th April
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ChocolateFrog said:
ID3 to X-Power for me.

There's really no comparison. The ID3 was a hateful car in many ways. The X-Power has it's niggles but I'd take it everytime over the ID3. I doubt the Born is that much different.
What made the ID3 so hateful? Software is dog water but I think has iteratively been updated to the point it's functional. Speakers are crap. Windows controls and controls generally are crap. Anything else?



bomster

183 posts

112 months

Monday 15th April
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ChocolateFrog said:
Born probably more efficient too. I seem to be averaging 2.2 over the first 2500 miles.

I'm sure it was more like 3.5 in the ID3.
2.2 is appalling. I guess needs some context though, have you been sending it every drive?

clart

50 posts

112 months

Monday 15th April
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Done a couple of hundred miles in mine. Managed to get used to turning off the LKA - its annoying but not as bad as i made out.

I have to say i quite like it so far. Charging at work every couple of days is fine, and i can manage 4 m/kw in eco mode.

Its a very easy car to drive. I actually think my dog could drive it. Just does everything with little drama and a reasonable amount of comfort. Build quality is better than i expected too.


WCZ

10,533 posts

194 months

Tuesday 16th April
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bomster said:
XPower or Born V2? Same price on my SS scheme with work.

430 trumps 230bhp, but I guess otherwise the Cupra is the nicer and better put together car. Then again the Cupra is somehow over 100kg heavier so perhaps the MG is the nicer steer.

Thoughts? Anyone spent time in both?
hmm, what about the new 300+hp born?

ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Wednesday 17th April
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bomster said:
ChocolateFrog said:
ID3 to X-Power for me.

There's really no comparison. The ID3 was a hateful car in many ways. The X-Power has it's niggles but I'd take it everytime over the ID3. I doubt the Born is that much different.
What made the ID3 so hateful? Software is dog water but I think has iteratively been updated to the point it's functional. Speakers are crap. Windows controls and controls generally are crap. Anything else?
I think most of it was just the fact it never met my expectations of a VW product, rather than it being outright dreadful.

Main things for me were the haptic steering wheel buttons, genuinely hateful. The infotainment was awful too, totally under developed. The continuous error messages that came and went, adaptive cruise that would happily attempt to throw you round a 90 degree bend at 60 and then slow to 20 for slight bends. The fancy matrix headlights that we're not quite clever enough, I used to get flashed regularly. The overly harsh ride, the weird lack of traction. Despite having less than half the power of the MG it used to step out on most wet roundabouts.

I think the fact that some people paid £50k for them is just mental, the height of Covid nonsense.

ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Wednesday 17th April
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bomster said:
ChocolateFrog said:
Born probably more efficient too. I seem to be averaging 2.2 over the first 2500 miles.

I'm sure it was more like 3.5 in the ID3.
2.2 is appalling. I guess needs some context though, have you been sending it every drive?
Not massively. It does get a bootful on slip roads and I get up to speed quickly but not antisocially during normal driving. Cruise set to 75 on the motorway. A side note being the speedo is very accurate. 80 is a GPS verified 79.

Best I've ever got is 2.9 but 99% of the time it sits between 2 and 2.5.

drgoatboy

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1,626 posts

207 months

Wednesday 17th April
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ChocolateFrog said:
Not massively. It does get a bootful on slip roads and I get up to speed quickly but not antisocially during normal driving. Cruise set to 75 on the motorway. A side note being the speedo is very accurate. 80 is a GPS verified 79.

Best I've ever got is 2.9 but 99% of the time it sits between 2 and 2.5.
I checked mine yesterday and according to the trip I have averaged 3m/kw over the last 750 miles.

From my experiments it will be the 75mph cruise that kills it. If you set it to 65 it would 60% higher (particularly now it's warmer)

ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Wednesday 17th April
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Also washed mine for the first time today. Noticed if you gently lift the rear spoiler it poured out a good 200mls of water or thereabouts. That can't be doing much good long term.

Mikebentley

6,119 posts

140 months

Wednesday 17th April
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Apologies for thread diversion. I had a Duster then Chocolatefrog got on.I then got an MG4 Trophy and CF got his MG XPower. So CF behold your next car. You will of course though get the Brabus.

drgoatboy

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1,626 posts

207 months

Wednesday 17th April
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Mikebentley said:
Apologies for thread diversion. I had a Duster then Chocolatefrog got on.I then got an MG4 Trophy and CF got his MG XPower. So CF behold your next car. You will of course though get the Brabus.
Ha ha! How do you like the smart? Not seen many out in the wild but I do think they look good

Mikebentley

6,119 posts

140 months

Wednesday 17th April
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drgoatboy said:
Mikebentley said:
Apologies for thread diversion. I had a Duster then Chocolatefrog got on.I then got an MG4 Trophy and CF got his MG XPower. So CF behold your next car. You will of course though get the Brabus.
Ha ha! How do you like the smart? Not seen many out in the wild but I do think they look good
3 days now and blown away by the build quality and equipment. The plan was to turn off all the LKA and Emergency Brake stuff and set it as a profile so I didn’t go through the MG drama. I’ve decided after 3 days to just leave it all on as it just works so well. No snatching the wheel or false activation, it’s brilliant. The car feels less flimsy than the MG. OTA updates and software that works. At 1745hrs on day one I was having difficulty linking the Hello Smart app to the car so I sent them an email. At 1800hrs a call centre guy in Milton Keynes called and got everything activated. The car has 268 bhp and is RWD. The tech is awesome and works really well. At the bottom of the main screen are all the HVAC controls easily accessible and the screen reacts really quickly. Voice control seems to be AI and is very good and seems to be learning. For a couple of thousand more it’s on another level completely than the MG. I think because it’s Mercedes and Geely the attention to detail is greater than SIAC. It seems a really premium product and is to my mind better than the EX30 it shares a platform with.

ChocolateFrog

25,424 posts

173 months

Thursday 25th April
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Someone suggested the vibration was from the brake covers as they're not rigidly mounted.

Sounds plausible although I have my doubts.

Anyone removed them?

Paul_M3

2,371 posts

185 months

Thursday 25th April
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ChocolateFrog said:
Someone suggested the vibration was from the brake covers as they're not rigidly mounted.

Sounds plausible although I have my doubts.

Anyone removed them?
They'll weigh bugger all. There's not a chance that those things vibrating could cause the whole car to severely shake in my opinion.

drgoatboy

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1,626 posts

207 months

Thursday 25th April
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Paul_M3 said:
They'll weigh bugger all. There's not a chance that those things vibrating could cause the whole car to severely shake in my opinion.
I think the whole car vibrating is a very rare occurrence (from reading other threads), I think I have experienced it once or twice in 3k miles when I've thought "hmmm something feels a bit odd" but not much more than that. Nothing that would make me slow down or particularly worry.

But I have driven lots of cars, a lot of which were old and broken. Maybe if I had never driven anything but brand new cars I might feel differently, really not sure