MG4 Trophy - a week of ownership

[johncolescarr]

To provide balance to what can often be a negatively skewed platform of internet forums, I will provide a 1 week, 1 month and 1 year ownership update to save boring you all with my delight over the mundane, but sufficient to build confidence to the new owner. I am unashamedly targeting this at others like me who cannot or choose not to buy a new car and where MG4 are looking fantastic value right now as a pre-owned 2-3 year old purchase.

After 1 week:

The good:

• Quality is very good, equally as good as my previous mondeo top spec, seats are good, everything you touch, solids feeling doors closures etc.
• Driving is very natural - think of it as a super smooth automatic with bags of torque - in fact its a great steer, better than ford mondeo, mazda 6 and golf I have had.
• Everything works as it should, zero foibles.
• Its quiet on the move, even at motorway speed, a very solid drive all round really.
• Range is as I expected, 200-240 miles on a full charge. But this measure is academic most of the time, It'll do 120 miles from 80% to 20% which is where I keep it.
• Charging speed. I can rapid charge at about 110-120 kW when the battery is below 70%
• The app! it works, I schedule all my charges right now with it and I can pre-condition my car etc. There is no functionality that doesnt work for me in the app.

The meh:

• Infotainment system (whilst a huge upgrade from my Mondeo) is a bit laggy but perfectly usable. I need to remember to "start" the car before plugging in my iPhone otherwise car play doesnt work.
• Heating controls are a bit awkward, I keep having to adjust the temperature to keep it constant. to be honest i tend just to set it at 16C now and keep my coat on
• The ACC is a bit crap, heard this complaint from many of other car owners and MG is no different - not smooth. I choose to just drive it myself.
• Why why why cant I have speed limiter instead of ACC?!
• LKA is, fine, I keep it on as I cant be bothered to turn it off every time
• Surprisingly I choose not to use OPD - on my test drive I thought it was great but I just use KERS3 and brake pedal now.
• 360 camera a bit of a gimmick as the quality is not very useful, I just use my mirrors but maybe I'm still learning.

The bad;
- Nothing for this category right now, literally nothing I can think of as actually bad.

Conclusion: best car I've ever had

 

[webhiker]

I agree to the overall sentiment after more than 2 years of ownership and several +5000km trips