finally another (non mg) estate EV

[deviousrich]

with the world moving to SUVs i was pleased to see VW are doing an estate in their ID7 tourer, but then i saw the price and put it right out my price range

ID.7 Tourer | Electric Car | Volkswagen UK

The new ID.7 Tourer sets new standards when it comes to comfort and functionality. Discover the ID.7 Tourer today.

www.volkswagen.co.uk

such a shame that MG are no longer doing an estate, the world must surely realize soon enough that pushing an SUV shaped brick through the air is less efficient and revert back to estates

 

[MG Clive]

I bet the ID.7 is a fantastic car, I just find the VW electric range a bit pricy.

 

[Bam Bam]

with the world moving to SUVs i was pleased to see VW are doing an estate in their ID7 tourer, but then i saw the price and put it right out my price range

ID.7 Tourer | Electric Car | Volkswagen UK

The new ID.7 Tourer sets new standards when it comes to comfort and functionality. Discover the ID.7 Tourer today.

www.volkswagen.co.uk

such a shame that MG are no longer doing an estate, the world must surely realize soon enough that pushing an SUV shaped brick through the air is less efficient and revert back to estates

I guess there is the Astra Estate and e-308 SW as the available options, though I'm not sure they are on sale as yet.

 

[Rolfe]

I have a friend (well, friend's husband) who has a Mercedes estate car which is about 35 years old and has done about 230,000 miles. It's a bit of a phenomenon. At Christmas I heard him mutter something about having to sell it soon so he could buy another petrol car. (This was after being chauffeured around in my car (but declining an offer to drive it), and being a passenger when I test-drove an X-Power at the Everything Electric Show.) I was silently horrified, but didn't pick him up on it.

Then last week my doorbell rang, and there was friend and husband on the doorstep, and elderly Merc in my drive. They'd been passing en route from a funeral to their holiday home, and decided to call in. Much interest in my solar panels and how I was running the system. Douglas seemed more open to the idea of an EV, and was merely saying that charging at the holiday home (in Oban) could be a problem because it's a first-floor flat.

On the strength of that I wrote quite a long email to my friend laying out the benefits of having an EV, including cheap electricity for everything (although their roof is not suitable for solar). Also pointing out that you don't need to charge near where you're staying, just have lunch somewhere with a charger one day while you're out. And that there are four 150 kw chargers in Oban they don't know about.

I thought perhaps the lack of estate cars might be an issue, so I googled a bit and found this.

Best electric estate cars 2025: our top battery-powered wagons

In the market for an electric estate car? Here at CAR we've chosen our favourites available right now, so read on to find out more.

www.carmagazine.co.uk

The MG5 is there of course, as is the ID7, but there are quite a few others. I didn't realise that one of the Taycan specs is actually an estate car configuration. These cars are so much nicer than SUVs I don't know why there aren't even more of them.

 

[deviousrich]

yeah i think its mad there arent more. i cant help but feel they have to come back into vogue to get better milage out of batteries

If you then apply my default filter of £40k price point to any of those lists the lists get very small indeed.

 

[GranTurismoEra]

Why did MG get rid of the estate? I reckon the next gen 3 series estate may have an electric option going by the proposed m3 EV

 

[dsimpkins]

Why did MG get rid of the estate? I reckon the next gen 3 series estate may have an electric option going by the proposed m3 EV

Apparently they are bringing out an estate version of the MG4.

 

[deviousrich]

Apparently they are bringing out an estate version of the MG4.

I was told that was no longer on the cards and had been binned off in favour of the mgs5

 

[Bam Bam]

Lots of reporting about an MG4 estate and MG2 EV in February 2024, but not much heard since then.

You never know with MG, though, as they aren't like VW or Tesla - announce a car (ID2, Roadster) and then you wait for years and years for it to appear. They just get on with things.

 

[tsedge]

The MG5 replacement is the already-released MGS5. MG were planning an estate version of the MG4 but apparently MG5 sales were very poor latterly and so they decided not to make one. (Miles mentioned this a while back).

The MG5 had sold really well early on, I don't know why things changed except I suppose the general competition with lots of other makes starting to reduce their prices and expand their ranges and the general popularity of hatchbacks and SUVs over other body styles.

 

[tsedge]

I bet the ID.7 is a fantastic car, I just find the VW electric range a bit pricy.

Yes. VW badly need to reduce their new car prices as they risk becoming a niche premium player. That said, some great bargains around on ex-fleet ID.3s at the moment.

 

[EVsince2016]

I have a friend (well, friend's husband) who has a Mercedes estate car which is about 35 years old and has done about 230,000 miles. It's a bit of a phenomenon. At Christmas I heard him mutter something about having to sell it soon so he could buy another petrol car. (This was after being chauffeured around in my car (but declining an offer to drive it), and being a passenger when I test-drove an X-Power at the Everything Electric Show.) I was silently horrified, but didn't pick him up on it.

Then last week my doorbell rang, and there was friend and husband on the doorstep, and elderly Merc in my drive. They'd been passing en route from a funeral to their holiday home, and decided to call in. Much interest in my solar panels and how I was running the system. Douglas seemed more open to the idea of an EV, and was merely saying that charging at the holiday home (in Oban) could be a problem because it's a first-floor flat.

On the strength of that I wrote quite a long email to my friend laying out the benefits of having an EV, including cheap electricity for everything (although their roof is not suitable for solar). Also pointing out that you don't need to charge near where you're staying, just have lunch somewhere with a charger one day while you're out. And that there are four 150 kw chargers in Oban they don't know about.

I thought perhaps the lack of estate cars might be an issue, so I googled a bit and found this.

Best electric estate cars 2025: our top battery-powered wagons

In the market for an electric estate car? Here at CAR we've chosen our favourites available right now, so read on to find out more.

www.carmagazine.co.uk

The MG5 is there of course, as is the ID7, but there are quite a few others. I didn't realise that one of the Taycan specs is actually an estate car configuration. These cars are so much nicer than SUVs I don't know why there aren't even more of them.

So many spelling mistakes in that article!