Content by lokych in December, 2025

In this day of automated assembly and parts commonality, many things are already preinstalled. Iust require activation. Such as ADAS components. Alfa Romeo has also simplified to four colours. But they probably figured its cheaper to install premium options on all models than pick and choose...

Very much fitting with the 16 week guidance date given by my dealer. I ordered around the same time. So hopefully will be the same batch, on the same boat!

Chinese cars are the Japanese cars. When they were first introduced, you had airconditioning, power windows, later leather seats etc as standard. Now Chinese cars have premium audio in their more expensive models as standard. BYD has Dynaudio on their Seal and Sealion 7. IM does away with the...

Sorry, can get quite hammy when it comes to audio! you can tell i spent a bit of time in audio forums.

People look for different things. For me, a well-tuned car audio system, first and foremost should have a well calibrated EQ to compensate for the small space, glass reflections etc. The net result should be sharp stereo imaging which can be adjusted to centre around the driver or all round. No...

Not sure how reliable this article is. Wireless Android Auto and even wired AA use use BT only for phone functions which is low bitrate. Audio and video use the USB or WiFi direct to get sufficient bandwidth. BT streaming under A2dP protocol isn't too bad anyway. A noticeable drop will be HFP...

Looks like they underestimated demand. MG UK didn't pre-order enough. Also there is a huge promo on MG itself with the MG6 being launched etc. So maybe they didn't want to clash sales numbers. But of course they are different price segments. Or maybe IM is just overwhelmed on international orders.

I don't think I encountered that problem when I had the MG HS as a courtesy car. Also you forget that the IM is a completely different subrand to MG. It has no commonality to the current MG range.

The Launch as in launching of the car. Not "Launch" mode. In fact I don't think there is one!