What car did your MG4 replace?

[wattmatters]

And she couldn't work it out for herself...

My wife only learned to drive a few years ago, mostly learning in a Mazda 3, then she drove my old diesel Golf after getting her license. She has not the 40+ years of experience of driving scores of different vehicles that I do.

When the car behaved (significantly) differently to what she had experienced up to that point, she was concerned something was wrong.

Braking level when you lift the foot off the accelerator pedal should be a consistent experience when the settings in the car have not changed. It's a system design fault IMO.

 

[decrep]

Braking level when you lift the foot off the accelerator pedal should be a consistent experience when the settings in the car have not changed. It's a system design fault IMO.

You do get a warning that braking levels have changed.

Very hard to get a consistent experience with no regen, you'd have to electronically activate the brakes, when you lift your foot off, (not something I'd trust MG to do safely), or have level 0.5 as default.

 

[wattmatters]

Very hard to get a consistent experience with no regen, you'd have to electronically activate the brakes, when you lift your foot off, (not something I'd trust MG to do safely), or have level 0.5 as default.

Her car is the ZSEV, not the MG4.

You do get a warning that braking levels have changed.

Yes, on my MG4 at least, the cryptic message lasts for about a millisecond which you may be lucky to see.

Very hard to get a consistent experience with no regen, you'd have to electronically activate the brakes, when you lift your foot off, (not something I'd trust MG to do safely), or have level 0.5 as default.

Many EVs do blended braking, indeed the MG4 does too, just not in this instance.

What is level 0.5?

 

[decrep]

What is level 0.5?

Obviously half of level 1.0

 

[Corindikev]

My last car was a 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Platinum. Very reliable but by 2023 a few cracks began to open. Bluetooth gave up & a couple of other electronics were on the way out & an idler bearing became noisy but about 240 km on the engine & CVT were still great.

I spent over a year looking at EVs on line &when the MG4 was released in the UK and motoring reports gave good to excellent reviews especially the driving experience, I committed to going for a test drive when they came to Australia. Took a test drive in one of the first off the boat & was very impressed, put in an order and was told available in a month in Essence 64 Diamond Red trim. A week later they rang to say it had arrived.

Everything is great & I'd never go back to ICE. My niggles were crappy software, No OTA, no ability to save personal settings & no interior light in the back. None were deal breakers & I am finally getting the software updates after a bit of a disagreement with the dealer (see MG in Aus thread).

 

[T1 Terry]

My wife thought she had broken something when the regen didn't work initially, actually, if it hadn't been for the adaptive cruise control and that gap monitoring thing, she probably would have broken something. Fortunately, it was in the 50km/h zone in town, then when it worked later, she was a tad confused but when she asked about it, you could see the light bulb moment when the dash warning and no regen linked
As once said by one of the blokes after his wife accidentally said something dumb .... "You'll have to excuse my wife, but she's pretty" and the roar of laughter around the campfire drowned out the noise of him getting a beating from said wife

T1 Terry