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If I’m spending time in the car, I tend to sit in the passenger seat (for precisely the reasons explained above!). I’ve found that using Apple CarPlay keeps the entertainment system running for quite a while, but it does still tend to switch off unexpectedly.

Yep, I feel exactly the same. After the morning ritual (switch off auto-headlights; dial down front collision recognition to one bar instead of three; switch off – useless – sign recognition; switch off LKA; switch driving mode to “sport”), I thoroughly enjoy every aspect of the machine (apart...

Ha, I’m impressed you’re using vehicle-to-load – excellent! I totally agree: the battery warming and internal HVAC pre-heating are both extremely welcome. We certainly love our MG4 Trophy (Luxury here in France), and apart from a few early-adoption software glitches – none of them serious – have...

Interesting – thanks for the tip(s) on vibration. We’ve not actually experienced this issue, but you never know!

Have to say I love the car, but I have a very simple pre-flight checklist: If daytime and weather is nice, switch off auto headlights If not snowy/icy/nasty, switch to Sport (otherwise leave in Normal); Sport means the brake pedal responds “properly” rather than mushily Switch down emergency...

I tend to agree with @thebriggie that pre-heating does little to improve things; by the time you've heated up the battery, you've used as much energy as you'd have used anyway in the first few minutes of driving. As for this "intelligent heating" – well, it sounds amusingly cool, but is the...

If you've got PV panels, charging via the granny charger makes sense. I cancelled our 7kW charger installation because I realised it made more sense to charge the car from our panels, and so far this year, it's worked really well. Most of our driving is confined to weekends and the occasional...

Here in la France I've seen nary a one (despite the "best-selling" figures) – until about 3 weeks ago, when I slowed at a junction to let a car pull in and realised it was a grey MG4. And then, about a week later, I saw a black MG4 parked in a nearby village. But that's it so far! Increasing...

Same with us. Like all new EV owners, we worried about range, charging etc. But then we realised that the car charges up quite nicely at 2kW via a (slightly reinforced) outdoor domestic socket, and that this level of recharging also means we can use our PV panels exclusively for recharging – no...

Here in France MG will fit a tow bar for around €1400. Sounds a lot, but I notice Volvo quotes a similar amount for the EX30 (€1200). In principle you can get one for about a third of the price from popular car outfitter Norauto – in practice, they’ve told me they don’t have the facilities yet...

Ridiculously quiet; I’ve been right at a pedestrian’s elbow before now (driving ultra slowly, I should add) before they’ve suddenly noticed me and jumped (also a dangerous, car-induced reaction). As has already been mentioned, the human sensorium (plus habitual expectations) also tends to...

Yes, I totally, totally agree! Increasingly, I feel (based on admittedly limited experience), chargers are optimised for contactless cards, and don't work well with credit cards. Even the ones in our local Carrefour, which are there for shoppers' convenience, don't work well with credit cards...

Having driven 6000 kilometres in ours, I'd say I'd definitely buy one again (although I'd hold out for the long-range one that's just about to be released in Australia!). It's a lovely car to drive, it's got some great features, and the few niggles it has (LKA, sign recognition) are ones you...

Remembering that I'm in France, we had some excitingly diverse experiences when we first acquired the car – we didn't know much about charging (my fault), and tried to do everything on credit card. This kinda worked, on the whole-ish. But it often didn't. So we subscribed to Chargemap, which...

Heh, I use the total of five button presses to sink into a meditative "I'm now about to enjoy my MG" mood, culminating in that wonderful, gentle pressure on the accelerator that starts the car moving ever so slowly and subtly away from a standstill. Personally, I love this preparatory moment...

This debate has made me laugh! If you find it distracting, just switch it off! That’s my ritual every time I get in the car, and it’s not exactly arduous – LKA off, sign recognition off. Problem solved. Not a problem – or problems – confined to MG, by the way; even IC vehicles are becoming...

Heh, yes, LKA still comes on all the time, so part of the setoff ritual is (a) switching off LKA and (b) switching off sign recognition (which is truly awful, at least out here in rural areas). The radio is fine, but the voice-driven AI assistant is pretty random – sometimes she's vocal...

I don't disagree with any of that! ;-) Definitely the nicest car I've ever owned.

It is a Trophy (in the UK), but maybe we have been lucky, judging by other reactions. It certainly hauls *rse well above 80. Of course it doesn't go over 100 (in theory), but I've had the meter reading 167 km/h on a couple of occasions, which suggests the limiter is somewhat relaxed (or that the...

As I've pointed out before, not a problem I've noticed. Our MG4 (can't speak for anyone else's ;-)) accelerates extremely well from 130 km/h to 160 km/h (not that I'd be doing that anywhere except in Germany, of course, hem hem); I've not noticed any sudden power drop – rather the opposite. Of...