RE: Behold the 450hp MG4 Triumph Edition

RE: Behold the 450hp MG4 Triumph Edition

Wednesday 31st August 2022

Behold the 450hp MG4 Triumph Edition

We know the new MG is pretty good - here's the one you might actually want 


The good news keeps coming from MG. Fresh from a positive first drive review of the standard MG4, there’s now this - the MG Mulan Triumph Edition. Which sounds nothing like an MG4, but Mulan is what the 4 is known as in China, and Triumph Edition is what the new dual motor flagship goes by over there. Assuming the same model makes it to the UK (everything said by the UK operation so far suggests it will) something very much like this will be the 450hp flagship for the MG4 range.  

Though little different from the outside to the regular model, the Triumph is marked out by the orange calipers, green paint and new wheel design. To all intents and purposes, this is an electric MG like the others set to be on our roads soon, slightly weird front end and all. Except it’s more than twice as powerful, thanks to a brace of electric motors and 64kWh battery generating 449hp and 442lb ft. 

That ought to be good enough for a 0-62mph sprint in less than four seconds, with torque vectoring possible as well. The firm is suggesting a range of around 285 miles, although that's using the slightly more lenient Chinese test procedure. Expect a fair bit less over here, as we've seen in standard MG4. 

There’s not loads more to go on for the moment, with even the interior pics looking a lot like the standard model, but with the UK-spec MG4 already established as a keenly priced, smart handling EV, it does raise expectations of what a performance model might offer. Expect further details about UK pricing and availability in due course. And dwell on this: are we looking at the return of the performance MG?


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hepy

Original Poster:

1,342 posts

154 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Yes please!

An interesting, affordable EV - like a return to the hot hatches of the 80's and 90's.

S600BSB

6,529 posts

120 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Does the CCP own the rights to the Triumph name as well?

Dombilano

1,304 posts

69 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Interesting performance, not enough for me to want one. Still looks like a GCSE design project from 1998.

Speedgirl

291 posts

181 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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It’s green and it’s fast but there’s something very wrong about that back end. How many tons does it weigh?

oilit

2,722 posts

192 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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S600BSB said:
Does the CCP own the rights to the Triumph name as well?
I dont know tbh (google says its owned by BMW) but will we end up with the Wolseley, vanden plas, austin, and morris trim levels (all owned by saic)

Talk about history repeating itself - iirc there was an mg, Wolseley, austin, and morris version of the 1100/1300 hatchback.

I think Rover had to go back to LandRover when MG Rover went bust

Edited by oilit on Wednesday 31st August 17:57

ducnick

2,035 posts

257 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Head in hands… This sort of thing just reinforces how old and out of touch I have become at 46 yrs on this earth. When I was young, MG was a byword for small British sports cars that were slower than the new golf gti and rusted faster. As I grew up, MG made an interesting cheap mid engine alternative to the mx5 but with allegro suspension. Now I’m middle aged, MG is a badge stuck on a Chinese bev that will out accelerate my 500 bhp v8 mustang while costing peanuts to fuel, but the capital outlay will be approx 2x what I am prepared to pay for ANY motorised convenience.

AndrewNR

333 posts

136 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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I like it for the fact that £ for £ it'll most likely be the fastest car on the road and realistically not much will touch this piece of "Chinese" tat?

AUD68

19 posts

75 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Read the customer reviews of MG owners on
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/mg.co.uk
Let the buyer beware !

AndrewNR

333 posts

136 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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AUD68 said:
Read the customer reviews of MG owners on
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/mg.co.uk
Let the buyer beware !
Not ideal - but there's about 3 reviews per month; hardly high volume

be02ese

2 posts

34 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Absolutely hideous. And a terrible badge. I’d rather pay more for a BMW or Polestar. ICE still rules.

theplayingmantis

4,908 posts

96 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Saw a brand new MG small SUV of some sort, sure its a capable white good, but just very hard to look at, aesthetic its not. Designed by a committee it must be, just like this one, nondescript in an ugly kind of way. Bit like me!

S600BSB

6,529 posts

120 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Chinese tat with a crap badge!

Escort3500

12,724 posts

159 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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be02ese said:
Absolutely hideous. And a terrible badge. I’d rather pay more for a BMW or Polestar. ICE still rules.
yes

greggy50

6,228 posts

205 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Suspect this will be £38-40kish so a lot of peformance for the money!

jorders500

170 posts

103 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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I really like it. Seems good vfm.

Glasgowrob

3,288 posts

135 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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450bhp awd and a badge that will do nothing but annoy German marque owners and about 2/3rds the price of my SQ2

JerryF

297 posts

188 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Just read a few of those reviews on Trustpilot.

Absolutely, scary: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/mg.co.uk?stars=1

Answer has got to be avoid.

My guess is that this thread is a paid for advert, as it's the second MG advert in as many weeks, with the same result. Unreliable - avoid. Chinese - avoid.

greggy50

6,228 posts

205 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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JerryF said:
Just read a few of those reviews on Trustpilot.

Absolutely, scary: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/mg.co.uk?stars=1

Answer has got to be avoid.

My guess is that this thread is a paid for advert, as it's the second MG advert in as many weeks, with the same result. Unreliable - avoid. Chinese - avoid.
That website has a very low volume of reviews given the volume of cars sold. I am sure some cars are better but they do have a 7 year warranty and I have seen quite a few of them as taxis around here so they can't be that bad...

I also doubt it's sponsored as this is an important car being a family EV with a good range for sub 30k (for a base model) and as such it will be a very popular car to a average joe. Only a small % of visitors to the site bother with the forums I suspects so the fact a lot of posters don't appear to like EVs doesn't really matter!

Silvanus

6,841 posts

37 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Chinese regime bla bla, MGs are crap bla, looks rubbish bla, no one buys these things bla!!! I'd rather spend 20k more on something German bla bla!

These things are going to sell very very well what ever PHer think

DodgyGeezer

43,774 posts

204 months

Wednesday 31st August 2022
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ducnick said:
Head in hands… This sort of thing just reinforces how old and out of touch I have become at 46 yrs on this earth. When I was young, MG was a byword for small British sports cars that were slower than the new golf gti and rusted faster. As I grew up, MG made an interesting cheap mid engine alternative to the mx5 but with allegro suspension. Now I’m middle aged, MG is a badge stuck on a Chinese bev that will out accelerate my 500 bhp v8 mustang while costing peanuts to fuel, but the capital outlay will be approx 2x what I am prepared to pay for ANY motorised convenience.
surely MG is just going back to its roots - IIRC they were originally purveyors of warmed over family wagons. The circle has been completed