SimonS
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My MG4 journey comes to an end. My Red SE LR is sold and will be collected tomorrow.
It was purchased as a cheap experiment into EV ownership and it has excelled at showing me that EV’s and the charging structure are now at a level where an EV makes sense especially for those that can charge cheaply at home.
It has been 7 months with a car that is nice to drive. A car that is good value for money but a car that you never know what error message or tantrum it will throw up next. Note that I said ‘what’ not ‘when’ because you can virtually guarantee that something will show up on every drive. I can live with most of that but it is the unpredictability that haas got to me. My wife refuses to drive it for that same reason and also because it is too different to a ‘normal’ ICE car. Too much is driven through the screen.
As I posted here at the time, a couple of weeks ago we decided to sell our BMW 320i and test drove some other EV’s and the i4 won through. For my wife it is virtually identical to operate as the 320i the we have traded in against it and she likes that familiarity. I love the fact that it has a Start/Stop button (no pressure pads in the seat) and as soon as I press that button a box appears on the screen for me to untick to disable LKA. That’s it. No diving into menus. No ‘what’s it doing now?’ or god forbid ‘oh look, it’s doing it again!’. We haven’t had a single bing, bong or pop up message since we bought the i4. It just works. It’s also more efficient than the MG4 despite the extra weight and the higher charge speed means we haven’t spent more than 22 minuets at a rapid charger enroute.
The i4 is what all EV’s should be (except maybe the price). It is comfortable. It rides well. It has physical buttons/stalks/levels etc for all the important stuff and voice control that works for anything else. It’s definitely a keeper.
I wish you all well on your MG journeys and I hope MG sort out the software for you sooner rather than later. I’ll still pop in here now and then and if there’s ever a Scottish meet up arranged I’ll come along and hide the i4 in the corner
It was purchased as a cheap experiment into EV ownership and it has excelled at showing me that EV’s and the charging structure are now at a level where an EV makes sense especially for those that can charge cheaply at home.
It has been 7 months with a car that is nice to drive. A car that is good value for money but a car that you never know what error message or tantrum it will throw up next. Note that I said ‘what’ not ‘when’ because you can virtually guarantee that something will show up on every drive. I can live with most of that but it is the unpredictability that haas got to me. My wife refuses to drive it for that same reason and also because it is too different to a ‘normal’ ICE car. Too much is driven through the screen.
As I posted here at the time, a couple of weeks ago we decided to sell our BMW 320i and test drove some other EV’s and the i4 won through. For my wife it is virtually identical to operate as the 320i the we have traded in against it and she likes that familiarity. I love the fact that it has a Start/Stop button (no pressure pads in the seat) and as soon as I press that button a box appears on the screen for me to untick to disable LKA. That’s it. No diving into menus. No ‘what’s it doing now?’ or god forbid ‘oh look, it’s doing it again!’. We haven’t had a single bing, bong or pop up message since we bought the i4. It just works. It’s also more efficient than the MG4 despite the extra weight and the higher charge speed means we haven’t spent more than 22 minuets at a rapid charger enroute.
The i4 is what all EV’s should be (except maybe the price). It is comfortable. It rides well. It has physical buttons/stalks/levels etc for all the important stuff and voice control that works for anything else. It’s definitely a keeper.
I wish you all well on your MG journeys and I hope MG sort out the software for you sooner rather than later. I’ll still pop in here now and then and if there’s ever a Scottish meet up arranged I’ll come along and hide the i4 in the corner
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