MG ZS EV Shipping Updates

Vipar said:
Whatsthepoint. How do you work out that it’s cheaper to lease than to buy please?
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It is way cheaper for me, as I would buy 2nd hand usually. I currently run a 10 year old Focus (yeah I know..) anyway I need a new car as the clutch is going and even now its worth £2.5k tops. So what do I do? If I want an equivalent car but newer a 16 plate Focus and purchase using a loan then the figures look a bit like this:

16 plate Focus 12K - current car worth £2.5K - loan for £9.5K over 4 years equals = £212 pm = total repayment £10145

Petrol per month = £100
Tax = £15
Insurance = £25

Also need to factor in tyres and servicing\MOT. Lets say over a year that is £360 so £30 pm
Monthly total = £380

At end of loan the car will be mine and be worth anything between £2k-£4 and I get new loan and go again.

I can get a brand new ZS EV through work salary sacrifice for £301 pm. No upfront payment. This includes all servicing, insurance, tyres, tax (although N\A) breakdown. Approx £340\350 pm after charging costs

So I get to drive around in a brand new car (eventually) without any worries that I'm liable for big bills and yes I will never own the car, but using the 2nd hand method I would own a car worth not much at the end. When my lease ends, I'll start another. As a monthly cost it's less and I'll be driving a brand new car.

I have always bought 2nd hand but never again....

If I wanted to buy a new ZS, then I would need big deposit, and balloon payment at end. Leasing it I do not need this
 
MG273 said:
Do you have a link for a ZS Trophy long range EV for £11k over 3 years?
Everywhere I looked (at the start of the year) it was closer to £15k for 3 years with no more than 10k miles per year.
So you’re paying 50% of the cars value just to own it for 3 years and then hand it back.
If you buy it and keep it for 6
years (remember the warranty is 7 years too) then whatever you sell it for ends up being money saved vs 2x lease deals.
I leased my last car (Audi Q3) for 3 years for about £11k but that car was worth £36k and would probably depreciate roughly that much anyway.
Lease prices have increased a lot in the last 12 months and the maths doesn’t stack up for me anymore.
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Those of us that ordered back in November had offerers between £9,500 -£10,000 for 3 years. I went with Vanarama, no upfront, 10,000 miles, free charger and free insurance, at £278 a month for 36 months. My previous ionic which I have had for just over 2 years was £188. Unfortunately looks like the lease prices are on the up.
 
howie1971 said:
Got an email from lease company saying they have a few short range zs ev trophy arriving
I have a long range se zs on order not due to oct at moment what is the real world range on the short range I’m doing 35 miles daily mostly motorway so reason choose long range also will be extra as prices have gone up since I ordered mine is it worth going to the trophy short range now or waiting it out
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We got a SR Trophy 3 weeks ago rather than wait til September plus for the LR we ordered and no regrets at all. Wife works part time so is able to plug it in during the day and top up when the war panels are generating, otherwise we set the timer in the car to charge at night on economy 7. At 100% charge the range shows anywhere upwards of 165 miles, usually 180 plus. From my experience your 35 mile round trip I would probably top up the car every 2 or 3 nights on E7. Only tales around 3 hours to charge from say 40%.
And the 22kw public fast chargers charge at the same speed as the home 7kw chargers, so expect to find something to do for 1 or 2 or 3 hours while your car charges. We only discovered that the other day.Rapid chargers are the really quick ones but you need a special lead for those. Where I live all public car chargers require you to bring your own lead.
At 35 miles a day a SR would suit you well.
 
ady said:
For me I’m old school, if you can’t afford it, don’t buy it. I have noticed a lot of young people driving around in flash cars, and I wonder, how do they afford them, answer payed on the Never Never.
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If you can afford the monthly lease prices of a flashy car in the region of £800+, to pay for your home expenses, living costs, holidays and extras, without compromises and loans/debt then yes you can obviously afford it.
By the way i have a lease at the moment but im buying the ZS with pcp, so not arguing which is better, just stating that owners of cars on lease get what they can afford, and if they can’t, it gets taken away.
 
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We ordered our MG LR in silver in February 22 from Wilsons in Epsom, Surrey.
We have just been contacted by the MG dealership who have advised me that all production of all MG's have been stopped. They have offered me a refund of the deposit as they cannot say when the car will be delivered, and advised that it could be another year, or longer. If you have ordered an MG I would suggest you contact your MG dealership.
 
zollyuk said:
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We ordered our MG LR in silver in February 22 from Wilsons in Epsom, Surrey.
We have just been contacted by the MG dealership who have advised me that all production of all MG's have been stopped. They have offered me a refund of the deposit as they cannot say when the car will be delivered, and advised that it could be another year, or longer. If you have ordered an MG I would suggest you contact your MG dealership.
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Think your dealer may be telling lies or is confused, MG are still making the cars just not taking any orders for EVs at the minute.
 
zollyuk said:
PLEASE READ: PLEASE READ: PLEASE READ:
We ordered our MG LR in silver in February 22 from Wilsons in Epsom, Surrey.
We have just been contacted by the MG dealership who have advised me that all production of all MG's have been stopped. They have offered me a refund of the deposit as they cannot say when the car will be delivered, and advised that it could be another year, or longer. If you have ordered an MG I would suggest you contact your MG dealership.
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Hmm sounds a bit fishy.. I know that they are not taking any new orders so perhaps your order never made it to the plant in time and the dealer are covering for the delay?
I’d like to think most of the orders from 2021 have already been built and are either waiting parts before being shipping or are already in transit.
It may be that they are trying to cancel the more recent orders to clear the backlog more quickly. Hopefully some more info comes out about this…
 
zollyuk said:
PLEASE READ: PLEASE READ: PLEASE READ:
We ordered our MG LR in silver in February 22 from Wilsons in Epsom, Surrey.
We have just been contacted by the MG dealership who have advised me that all production of all MG's have been stopped. They have offered me a refund of the deposit as they cannot say when the car will be delivered, and advised that it could be another year, or longer. If you have ordered an MG I would suggest you contact your MG dealership.
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yes i would contact MG UK to confirm. Doesn’t pass the smell test and certainly not mentioned by Miles
 
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zollyuk said:
PLEASE READ: PLEASE READ: PLEASE READ:
We ordered our MG LR in silver in February 22 from Wilsons in Epsom, Surrey.
We have just been contacted by the MG dealership who have advised me that all production of all MG's have been stopped. They have offered me a refund of the deposit as they cannot say when the car will be delivered, and advised that it could be another year, or longer. If you have ordered an MG I would suggest you contact your MG dealership.
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Production of the ICE ZS has been halted. Orders for the ZS EV have been put on hold. All existing orders will eventually be fulfilled as I understand it.
 
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