What car did your MG4 replace?

[OriginalBigAl]

Arrived in France in 2007 and bought a 3 year old Peugeot 307 sw , ex rental, high mileage but 2000 Euros less than the rest. Kept that until we could take advantage of the scrappage scheme three years previous and ordered the MG. Working out the total costs for the Peugeot came to around 35 euros a week over our 16 year ownership. Trying to apply similar costs to the MG and that comes to 40 euros a week ( projected with a similar time frame ) cheaper fuel , slightly higher insurance costs, higher initial purchase cost ( the French subsidies paid for the first three years depreciation ) the service costs being similar to the Peugeot. ( just materials , self administered ). With the seven ? year warranty , new car , and more exciting performance, no brainer.

 

[OzricEV]

Already posted in the X Power forum, but just as relevant here:

TT 225. Great to drive and great balance of comfort and speed. Maybe not the fastest, but the turbo kick always makes you smile. Unfortunately was deemed impractical.

R52 Cooper S. Like a fast go kart. Incredible fun in the twisties, but a pig around town, would twitch and judder if the revs dropped below 2500rpm. Didn't like leaving 1st gear before 30mph and the constant leaks and electrical issues essentially killed it.

LDV convoy. Slow and like jelly going around corners, but just goes, been the most reliable vehicle I've ever owned regularly driving Edinburgh to Bournemouth whilst I was living in it for work.

Triumph Tiger. Bought new and was a dream, but 3 years and 50,000 miles later absolutely everything was knackered. Wheels rusting from the inside out, exhaust rusted through at the headers, completely gone at the muffler joint, side stand snapped twice, electrics all failing. Just a complete mess.

Ducati Monster. Love hate relationship, great fun, great noise, good looking, always had something to say if it wasn't happy with you.

All gone now apart from the Convoy, which is a mobile shed/day van when I get the mountain bikes out. So gone from 4 vehicles to 2.
As an everyday vehicle the XPower blows them all away. Yes, some of the others were more characterful, more playful on the road etc. They also all caused me constant headaches in some form or another, while the XPower has been faultless in every respect.

(There appears to be a theme to my pictures, all taken as show of why I was going to be late for work most likely)

 

[wattmatters]

I had worried how my wife would cope with regen, but she took to it straight away.

After the Golf, my wife loves the regen in her ZSEV (it's quite not as strong as MG4's default level 3) and one day came home after a short trip to town all worried because the regen wasn't working - it was her first time after a full charge to 100%. I'd forgot to mention to her about regen not working when fully charged!

 

[bedsev]

69 plate B220d

 

[salty]

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Nice. Always liked these. Interior is lovely, with the ambient lighting. And surprisingly
quick, with that engine.

 

[slmorgan42]

MG5 Trophy LR (frist ev) was nice but love the MG4 so much more.

 

[Yorkshire Hillbilly]

Unfortunately this... It was 1 of only 3 in Sheffield at the time and 1 of about 750 in the UK. I'd worked my ass off for it but, alas #divorce came and I couldn't afford £760 a month to spend on a gadget. That's what I say when crying myself to sleep about it
*the car, not the ex-wife

 

[haloweenhamster]

This is my first hatchback, this replaced a Saab 9-3 Aero 2L turbo petrol & a BMW E46 330ci msport 3L petrol

First car on L plates was a 1.8L vauxhall cavalier and I've always had large cars with big engine, always petrol, always manual (EV took some getting used to)

 

[bedsev]

Nice. Always liked these. Interior is lovely, with the ambient lighting. And surprisingly
quick, with that engine.

Yeah it's was just shy of 200bhp torquie diesel, so pulled pretty well tbh. Interior was super nice as you say, only thing missing really was heated steering wheel, which mg4 has

 

[Brian0]

Replaced our Saab 2.8 turbo convertible. It was only 300hp and drank petrol. Also difficult to park, as all ocean going liners...

We were going to get rid of the Mondeo as well, but the boot on the MG persuaded us to keep it for moving stuff (mostly to the dump)
and my wife wouldn't let the (very hairy) dog in the new car...

 

[Deepbluexl]

Did not replace any car but added beside my Ioniq Electric pre-facelift.. still love this EV..

 

[securespark]

Our 23 LR rear wiper model replaced a 2009 Honda FRV 2.2 Diesel with 176k miles. The FRV was great when the kids were growing up and at home, needing ferrying around.

The youngest plays rugby and we have either taken him or followed him all over the country!

I used to joke that 171k of that mileage was rugby miles! We have been to Cheshire, North Wales, South Wales, East Midlands, West Midlands, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Bucks, the North East and even watched him in a County final at Twickenham!

 

[reeze]

2014 Corolla Altis 1.8.
Pretty economical for a gasoline car. comfortable interior (albeit minimal feature), still love the shape until now. Tax a bit too much, weird local regulation.

Comparing to MG4.
same comfort (more or less). faster, nimbler, FAARRR more economical than anything really. tax so very cheap. better feature (well, newer by a decade)
TL;DR: no regret at all. still love the corolla, but will change to MG4 again. for now.