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It may be the car has been set to limit its max charge (to 65%) - in the main screen after you power on, swipe left and select the battery/charging - you can click the percentage bar and set the maximum limit e.g. to 100%. The iSmart app also lets you set it - drag down on the main app screen...

I saw a red S5 (75 plate) in Tenterden on Monday morning - I'm really surprised we don't see more, the S5 does seem to be passed over in any mid-range family EV discussion, especially in the usual EV YouTube outlets who are obsessed with the Skoda EVs at the moment.

I turned it off in the settings - it's a novel idea but it's just not very good. To be fair, in most new cars that have it, it's not great.

I think that the S5's threshold for deciding that the DAB signal is too weak is a bit too aggressive and it will often fall back to FM when it probably could stay with DAB - it doesn't seem very tolerant of a low DAB signal. Saying that, it seems very reluctant to then switch back to DAB when...

I've seen this - the main in-built satnav showing one direction e.g. left and the corresponding driver display view showing the wrong direction. I tend to use CarPlay/Apple maps now (which sadly doesn't sync up with the driver display).

I had the same experience - it's just too sluggish/dumb to be practical. Another sort of related thing is that the manual high-beam (like you'd do to "thank" someone) seems slow, it doesn't feel like you can do a quick flash, despite me moving the stalk quickly, it gives the other car a good...

Mine was delivered with 43+ (!) and it was quite a harsh ride on your typical pothole-ridden UK road - I've since dropped it to the recommended 37 and the ride is noticeably much better, unsurprisingly.

You can't save the regen setting - the car defaults to "1" (low) on every startup. In other threads, some MG4 owners report that it's remembered for them so perhaps MG will issue a software update to allow it on the MGS5? MG Pilot Custom saves by long-pressing the icon in the top-right of the...

I saw a blue one parked in Brodsworth House and Gardens car park a couple of weekends ago. Oh, and an identical one to mine parked in my local Sainsbury’s in my “spot” (a specific slot furthest away from the store I always park in), in an otherwise empty car park, very odd - I wondered if the...

You can press the right stick on the steering wheel - this toggles sound on/off.

The car stays on until you lock it - you can force power off by dragging down the touchscreen from the top (like you would a phone) and you get a set of “quick” buttons, one of which is power off. Another handy one on there is tailgate open/close. The car will reset to low regen on each start -...

You get a MG Type2 -> Type2 charging cable only AFAIK - no granny charger anymore.

I went with the NextBase 622 - note that it only comes with the adhesive mount (at least in the UK) so I ordered the official NextBase "sucker" mount and used that instead. Connects to the USB socket in the rear-view mirror mount in the windscreen, which is handy. Has a half-decent (not...

There’s room for the cable to peek out under the lid, you’d need a longer cable to allow it to reach the hands/lap of the passenger comfortably?

Press up on the left stick on the steering wheel to re-engage ACC at the last speed you had set.