Thought I'd add my so-far brief experience with the ZS here, rather than create a new thread.
I got mine (Long Range Trophy) a few days ago and haven't yet done any long journeys, only a few local runs - max 10 miles.
So far I have had similar experience to many here I think.
In general, I would also describe the car as OK, but a little disappointing in some aspects.
I have been driving a Hyundai Kona 64kwh Ultimate up until now and had a test drive of the ZS a couple of months ago.
So far, the ZS is very nice to drive. Compared to the Kona, I feel nice and high on the road. The handling is good and it is very comfortable. Acceleration is almost as quick as the Kona. The interior looks good and is very spacious (one of the reasons for switching was that the Kona is too small for my needs).
The issues I have are lots of small niggles, which on their own probably wouldn't matter but there are quite a few of them and some have been discussed here already.
- The sat nav doesn't work. It gets the initial location, then just sits there. I see others suggesting to change a setting called "dead reckoning", however this makes no difference. It's going to MG to get that looked at
- The USB music has no option to sort by track number, playlist, album etc. It's just a long list of tracks sorted by ID3 title.
- No album art appears for tracks on USB or Bluetooth. Not a big problem but why have the square for it?
- When starting the car, it seems to pick a random source for music. Sometimes USB1, sometimes USB2 (even though nothing plugged in to that), sometimes Bluetooth.
- I don't even see the option for Amazon Music, which is supposed to be present on the current Trophy model, since the Connect version was retired.
- The dash display randomly changes to the Pilot screen.
- The drive mode and cruise control distance resets every time I start the car.
- When using cruise control, even on a straight road, it will seemingly randomly adjust the steering. Is that just to keep me awake?!
- Also in cruise control, it really slows down round corners even when already going slow.
- The brightness of the centre screen is too dim during the day and too bright in the dark. No way to easily adjust it.
- The headlights do not automatically switch off when turning the car off, instead it beeps like cars used to 20 years ago. I want my headlights on all the time when I am driving, not just when the car thinks it is dark enough.
- KERS could be stronger and also really should work when using cruise control. When I did the test-drive, it did feel similar to the Kona but now it is nowhere close. I don't know if this is a configuration issue.
- The cup holder is in an odd position - if I have a cup in it, every time I go to use the indicator or cruise control stick, I bash the cup with my elbow.
- No way (as far as I can tell) to import places into the sat nav (e.g. from a kml file)
As I said, any one of these on their own wouldn't be a problem - no car is perfect after all - but there are just so many little niggles. I didn't pick up on these in the test drive because most of the software related ones I honestly didn't and wouldn't think to check. I generally expect software to work to a certain level but such basic things as an mp3 player having standard features that have been around for years - especially on an Android-based system - I wouldn't even ask about it. Also, in a 15 minute test-drive, you don't generally pick up on the little things anyway.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has suggestions for these niggles - it may well be there are solutions or workarounds.
Thanks