What car did your MG4 replace?

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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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).
 
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 ;):rolleyes:
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 :LOL:

T1 Terry
 
Nothing against anybody who has a car with CVT that works, but I dislike it.

We hired two cars when we visited NZ, an X Trail on the North Island and a Rav 4 on the South. The Toyota was slightly better, but the Nissan just seemed to do a lot of revving when you put your foot down, especially uphill, with not a lot of going anywhere, a bit like a manual whose clutch was slipping badly.
 
Nothing against anybody who has a car with CVT that works, but I dislike it.

We hired two cars when we visited NZ, an X Trail on the North Island and a Rav 4 on the South. The Toyota was slightly better, but the Nissan just seemed to do a lot of revving when you put your foot down, especially uphill, with not a lot of going anywhere, a bit like a manual whose clutch was slipping badly.
Always thought they should have been called a CRT rather than a CVT, constantly revving tragedy, although the Gen 2 Prius knows how to get amongst them on a hill it you let the cruise control have it's way .... anywhere from 4.500rpm to 5,200rpm ..... the MG4 is just so peaceful as it cruises past everyone up the hilly bits .... but I make a point of not looking at just how much of the available output from the poverty pack 125kw rear motor ...... I can be conservative if needs be on the last few legs home from Adelaide up the big hills ....

T1 Terry
 
Regular viewers will know that my previous car was a 2009 VW Golf GTi Mk6. It was getting a bit long in the tooth and I was thinking about replacing it anyway. But then in December 2022 an idiot in a BMW came out of a side road without looking and T-boned me. The insurance initially said they'd fix it, but then when the car was actually delivered to the repair garage (in March 2023) they decided it was uneconomical to repair and they would write it off.

I was furious, give me my car back, and so on. I went and got it too, but once it was back on my drive I calmed down a bit and started to think sensibly. The car was 14. I had been talking about changing it in 2024 anyway. It needed four new summer tyres (I'd been driving it on its winter tyres and they weren't too great either) and it had a string of MOT advisories from November 2022. The bodywork damage was an MOT fail so if I wanted to go on driving it I would have had to have that repaired and that would have cost around £2,000. The insurance were going to give me £4,000 write-off value. Go figure.

So I spent an evening watching YouTube videos about electric cars, because I didn't want to be left behind by the new technology (and I also reckoned I could save a packet on running costs). The MG4 was a no-brainer, and less than a fortnight later I was driving my new car.

Here he is when he was new, meet the late lamented Prospero.

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Good choice @Rolfe, but having moved on from the MG4 and now with the MGS5, no real regrets, it's very nice to drive, but has a few glitches, outlined on the S5 forum and now not happy with the headlight auto dipping, I'll moan on the S5 jobby to see if there's a fix.
 

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