XPower bargains UK November 2025

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It will be interesting to hear what you think about the quality of MG/Chinese vehicles with your history of migration through what looks like an incremental "perceived-quality-of-marque" ladder.

Having gone from Citroen to Ford to BMW to RR to Jag to Merc it looks like a bit of a full circle going to an MG now; though I guess you weren't happy with the 1-series, X3 or iPace, keeping them for less than a year each.

To add a bit more context as well because my initial post might be a bit misleading.

Saxo VTR - very first car, kept for 5 years.
Focus ST - kept for 6 years.
Volvo C30 - kept for 4 years.
M135i - kept for 3 years.
M235i - kept for 3 years.
X3 M40d - kept for 18 months - sold for more than I paid for it due to COVID. Great car, though.
Evoque - kept for 6 years, only just got rid of it very recently but was never really convinced by it and future reliability worried me.
I-PACE - kept for 12 months, salary sacrifice car, got rid due to job change but a great car.
EQB - still have, company car.
XPOWER - newest addition. Loving it so far!

So the XPOWER effectively replaced the Evoque, even though they are completely chalk and cheese, but I’ve had a fairly broad variety of cars over the years.

What I can say is that I paid less for my XPOWER than I did for my M135i nine years ago. That represents terrific value for money.