Unless I missed it, the warped under-tray and cases of people getting locked inside their cars were not mentioned.
If there is no news on a topic, then there is nothing to talk about.
I'm sure we will circle back to the under-tray issue.
it is a bit disingenuous to ignore 'difficult' questions posted on the live feed or pretend real issues experienced by genuine owners are not there.
We're not ignoring any questions. In fact, the team do a great job of answering questions in the chat live. And don't forget, the team
are genuine owners and have the same concerns. There is no discussion prior to a podcast about what not to talk about. Nothing is off limits unless it's Miles who can't speak about a particular subject if he wants to keep his job. But as I said above, if there is no news on a topic, we may not talk about it. It's safe to assume that if there is significant news on a topic and it hasn't previously discussed, we will discuss it.
To be fair, some of the contributors, Les for example, do say it as they see it, but at times it feels a bit too much like an infomercial.
I'm struggling to understand this point of view. Excluding Miles, none of the podcast contributors have any reward for participating other than the pleasure of doing so. If their enthusiasm comes across like an infomercial then I find that a bit odd.
We've always been transparent about what Miles does for a living and grateful that he gives up his time to join the podcast. I don't think it's all about selling cars, either. I have met Miles and he has a genuine passion for EVs, encouraging EV adoption and for the MG brand as well as being a genuine and likeable chap. I think this comes across in the podcast, too, but maybe not to everyone.
Miles does gently promote Chorley group sometimes and I think that this is acceptable in exchange for giving up his time.
This is not a Chorley Group podcast, either. If a any representative of an MG dealer wanted to join the podcast from time to time to share their experiences and information, they would be most welcome.
What is with promoting the Ora Cat sister channel on the podcast? Preferably stick to MG, otherwise signpost good channels/resources for people interested in researching which EV if any meets their needs.
That's my third forum
www.mgevs.com which I hope will grow like this one has. It's maybe 30 seconds of promotion which I'm going to continue to have while using my Monday evenings for the podcast.
most of us recognise it to be a joke
Yes, I hope so. Miles has a great sense of humour, though some people need humour heavily signposted.
My personal frustration is that time is sometimes given to responding to fairly trivial questions to which answers are readily available via the forum, and yet significant safety issues or realistic reasons for rejection were not.
Ok, well the question may not be trivial to the person asking it, and not everyone watching is necessarily a member of the forum. Yet. And we have discussed rejection reasons in previous podcasts and it makes no sense to repeat ourselves every time. But I'm going to take your feedback on board for future podcast running orders. (We have a running order document which we use to organise our talking points).
Only 2 of us suggested discussion points on this thread prior to the meeting, so it is not that you were swamped. It is an editorial decision whether these are tackled or not. Maybe there are good reasons why these topics may have been avoided? Maybe it is because you want to give sufficient time to a topic at a future podcast?
Topics aren't avoided, specifically. If someone asks about them in the chat, we're likely to talk about them. It's just that we discuss the topics which are relevant at the time and that we have something new to talk about.
I hope this answers your questions.