Panther
Established Member
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2025
- Messages
- 234
- Reaction score
- 447
- Points
- 128
- Location (town/city + country)
- West Midlands, UK
- Driving
- MG4 (2022-2025)
Definitely a matter of opinion and perhaps you have got a bit of a 'dud' XPOWER. I've had mine for just over two months and absolutely love it.
Yes the range was questionable for the first month until someone on a different post was discussing efficiency and mentioned about the 'intelligent battery heating was turned on', since turning this off the range has improved. I recently went to my daughters in the peak district, just over a 100mile round trip with road speeds varying from 30 to 60 including patches of have 'some fun' in the twisty bits and I got home with 51% battery, the temperature was around 5 degrees, seat heating on, AC set to 21 degrees, lights (including rear fog) on for some of it and the wipers occasionally.
I've only noticed the power drop over once the battery get to around 25%, I've never had any issues with lag from the front motor, if I floor it in 'Normal' mode it takes off like a banshee, and only feels slightly more responsive in 'Sport'.
Having driven for over 100miles in one go I've found the seats to be quite adequate, not the best but certainly not the worst.
I find the infotainment to be OK, just very laggy, especially when first booting up, and having to turn the 'Overspeed warning' off every time I get in is just annoying, but then this seems to be the norm on new cars.
The lack of light in the rear is a bit unforgivable, the cost savings must be negligible and the addition of the rear wiper is unnecessary as you can't see out the back window anyway with the center head rest !!
It is all about different views and opinions, for me personally the positives outweigh the negatives, but each to their own.
Yes the range was questionable for the first month until someone on a different post was discussing efficiency and mentioned about the 'intelligent battery heating was turned on', since turning this off the range has improved. I recently went to my daughters in the peak district, just over a 100mile round trip with road speeds varying from 30 to 60 including patches of have 'some fun' in the twisty bits and I got home with 51% battery, the temperature was around 5 degrees, seat heating on, AC set to 21 degrees, lights (including rear fog) on for some of it and the wipers occasionally.
I've only noticed the power drop over once the battery get to around 25%, I've never had any issues with lag from the front motor, if I floor it in 'Normal' mode it takes off like a banshee, and only feels slightly more responsive in 'Sport'.
Having driven for over 100miles in one go I've found the seats to be quite adequate, not the best but certainly not the worst.
I find the infotainment to be OK, just very laggy, especially when first booting up, and having to turn the 'Overspeed warning' off every time I get in is just annoying, but then this seems to be the norm on new cars.
The lack of light in the rear is a bit unforgivable, the cost savings must be negligible and the addition of the rear wiper is unnecessary as you can't see out the back window anyway with the center head rest !!
It is all about different views and opinions, for me personally the positives outweigh the negatives, but each to their own.
