Recent content by smartn

I think MG's biggest failing is not that its not a good car. Having driven 1500 miles in the last 7 days in mine, it's definitely a good car. The issue is with the support from MG UK, the dealerships, and MG China when you do have issues. I probably wouldn't buy another MG myself, not because...

Well, my roadtrip is coming to an end and it has been brilliant. Scotland is a wonderful country. We did a triangle of Edinburgh, Inverness and Oban. The MG has been great and despite the miles I've never felt tired from driving it one bit. I used cheap Tesla chargers exclusively until getting...

I think to be fair some of the criticism is valid. With the MG4 people's experiences have been very different. If you got a good one and didn't need to get the dealer or MG involved you would be thinking what a great car. If you had major problems (and quite a few have) then dealing with MG and...

I'm unlikely to be buying another MG due to this lack of support. I've put up with LKA being poor since day 1 and had software updates several months back and it's still rubbish. From other people's comments there must be a combination that would work but I've given up on MG providing it to me...

The worst instance I have had of LKA intervention was on a stretch of Motorway where there were narrow lanes due to roadworks. It wasn't safe to turn it off as I was driving and despite trying my best to keep it dead central in the lane it was intervening violently and frequently. Downright...

Looks like mine wasn't done either. I'm on a service plan with Drive MG Bristol so just assumed they would have done it when I got it serviced! The whole MG experience is poor to say the least, decent car, poor software, poor support.

I find it rather depressing that 18 months after launch and we are still having these conversations on an almost daily basis. LKA is frankly terrible and MG just don't seem to care. And even if it wasn't LKA I am referring to all these so called safety systems that actually seem to make things...

Interesting. Allegedly I had mine done a while back and it is still terrible. I forgot to turn it off on a short trip on Saturday and where they were doing roadworks on the motorway it must have activated at least 4 times in the space of a couple of minutes. Lanes were narrow and no way I could...

That's a game changer if it does and the update should be made available to all who want it. No chance MG will do that, we will need to argue to get it I suspect.

Yep, that sounds like an MG 'solution'

For Trophy in winter I generally work on about 2 miles per 1 percent so your 18 miles for 9 percent fits that exactly.

That looks pretty normal to me.

Although not the most efficient of cars my Trophy worst case scenario is around 2.5 miles /kWh with pre-heat and a commute of 4 miles in winter. Once on a run I'd certainly expect over 3 miles /kWh. The Trophy will not be as efficient as the Kona but I expect around 190 miles on a long...

I'm thinking of taking my MG4 up to Scotland as I've had it over a year and only done 7.5K. I notice we seem to have a lot of Scottish members so was after some advice on where to go for nice driving and great scenery and also where to stay. I was thinking the NC500 but everyone seems to do that...

I guess because I may be changing mine sooner than originally intended. I've been happy with the car on the whole but not exactly pleased with the software and the dealer/MG UK experience. The drop in used values have opened up a range of cars I just couldn't have justified only 12 months ago...