Living with an MG4 51 Excite

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What's it like to live with the base model MG4 and drive it every day? Is it convenient to drive long distances? What little annoyances are there?
All these questions are answered in this week's video as Gav puts this affordable, electric hatchback through its paces.
If you missed the first video, be sure to check it out here: • MG4 Excite 51: New Zea...
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@ObiePaddles 11 месяцев назад

My favourite reviewer! NZ conditions and towns…awesome.

@GraemeFullerton 11 месяцев назад

Another Great review Gavin. And it's always a treat when you bring the family along as well. They are always a laugh and look great fun to be with. Hope your meal out was just as good. Cheers!

@raikukei 11 месяцев назад

There is a speed limiter using the right menu button on steering wheel and joy stick to the right. Only 1 limit at a time. If you EQ the volume and turn loudness on it sounds much better, just that rear passengers miss out.

@jharrylong 11 месяцев назад

I've got the same model. The Default EQ setting on the stereo is terrible. You can do a custom EQ. Turn the bass and treble all the way up. Leave 1kHz flat and dip the 500Hz and 5kHz by 2 or 3 decibels to taste.

@glennmorrell8964 11 месяцев назад

Thats one of the reason I got the 64 Essence, for the 6 speakers an Equalizer

@TheEtpulsar 11 месяцев назад

@@glennmorrell8964 Same for us

@philipepics 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing

@snich63 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for testing the base model, when so many reviewers take the posh spec ones. The sound on the base model plus the lack of rear lighting seems to be a consistent complaint, so will be interesting to see if MG tweak the spec.

@MikeCarden 11 месяцев назад

Great to see you bring the Whānau along for the ride. A top review and you almost want to make me move there from Oz.

@raymondmumford6255 11 месяцев назад

Love that velvet lined picnic box 😊☺️🤩 Awesome car.

@gmotdot 11 месяцев назад

Great to see a review of an EV (or any car) that isn’t the top, or near to top, trim model.

@leonkernan 11 месяцев назад

I bought a 51 for a daily. For one or two road trips a year here, it will be fine. You don’t need a subwoofer though, a new set of Sony or pioneer component speakers from supercheap will make a world of difference on their own.

@andy_mac1 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for your great review, I have one of these cars (64kw model) and one of the complaints you mentioned was not being able to time a charge without a smart charger, this is not correct, if you don't have a smart charger you can schedule the charge by pressing the battery on the main screen and looking for the "cog" icon and set a schedule, or using the MG app - under charging management

@standupmoto 11 месяцев назад

Nice review Gav 👍, I do the same with my motorbike reviews as in use them for an extended period (usually a month) before I do the review. It’s a good way to actually know what you are reviewing, simple things ie the shopping bag hooks and rear interior light etc. Cheers.

@CraigMiles-y4d 11 месяцев назад

Gav there is a speed limiter in the cars in Australia and would have thought it would be the same in NZ, and I have used it. You just go into the screen and turn off the cruse control and then just below the button will bring up the option of the speed limiter.

@jasonhutcheon5991 11 месяцев назад

yep. true story

@lcmortensen 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact: the Waipipi wind farm turbines are the tallest in New Zealand, measuring 160 metres from base to blade tip.

@jenerics 11 месяцев назад

Great review, I was suprised to see 3 adults seating comfortably in the back.

@jasonhutcheon5991 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Ive got the AU version (51 Excite). You can set the charge times in the App, it works well. I will definitely be looking for stereo upgrades though.

@deltajohnny 11 месяцев назад

Very useful review and nice family! 👏👏

@glennmorrell8964 11 месяцев назад

Glad you like the mg4 even if it is a base model, I'v just brought the 64 Essence in Grey and hope to get it in a week time, it has more tech on board and better looks, thanks for the review.

@FallenAngel53 11 месяцев назад

Well if you calling the rear spoiler better looks I disagree and I hate to tell you this but they do add 11% drag.

@craybro 11 месяцев назад

Don’t be put off by the negative comment above. I’ve had the 64 Essence for a few a months and our family loves it

@FallenAngel53 11 месяцев назад

@@craybro I have a standard model and love it. Not negative just a fact

@craybro 11 месяцев назад

@@FallenAngel53 You have exaggerated as the spoiler only reduces range by 17km. This is pretty insignificant given the massively increased range of the Essence from a larger battery. The Excite is a great choice if you are on a budget or don't need the extra range. Otherwise the Essence is the way to go as the extra range and loaded features are impressive. I've driven both and it was a hard choice but I'm very glad that I chose the Essence over the Excite.

@t8polestarcyan22 11 месяцев назад

Definitely can't go wrong with Essence 64. Otherwise you'd have to ask yourself whether if you'd like to spend roughly extra $10K for the Long Range Essence 77. Personally I find the Essence 64 is the sweet spot.

@slaps101 11 месяцев назад

As far as I'm aware the base 51 model only has speakers in the front even though it has the grills in the back doors.

@lyledal 11 месяцев назад

This car looks great. Also, your family are great too!

@BurntFaceMan 24 дня назад

The opening statement is confusing, I thought the "excite" wasn't the base model its more like the "special one" that usually has nice mags and extra speakers inside or something?

@paulaschofield 10 месяцев назад

I did a drive Porirua to New Plymouth and back a month ago and there are some 180kW Z chargers in Strafford which I made use of. Maybe a quick squirt in Waverley and then a charge at Z might have saved you time. Friends of ours have just ordered an MG4, but I'm a bit shocked to hear that there is no scheduled charging timer 😞

@LittleSpot 11 месяцев назад

Its refreshing to see some kiwis from the other side of the globe :D. In Germany there was an update for the lane driving system. Maybe it will also be rolled out soon. Than the car is much more gentle.

@1DonFF 11 месяцев назад

Lane keep assist is annoying & why isn’t there just a physical button to switch it off easy 123?

@rvowles99 11 месяцев назад

Can't figure out how to get the mirrors to fold in

@1DonFF 11 месяцев назад

Definitely needs rear ceiling lights especially for the trunk

@honesty_-no9he 8 месяцев назад

Market is full of LED light kits.

@honestjohn6222 11 месяцев назад

Looking forward to comparing mg4 v BYD dolphin 60 kw hopefully. Soon , cheers Mate

@richardorchard3364 11 месяцев назад

Gday Gav,could we have an update on the Allegro,cheers.

@yggdrasil9039 11 месяцев назад

This is going to sell like hot cakes in Australia.

@theairstig9164 10 месяцев назад

It’s already outselling every other MG and apparently stealing sales from the MG ZS EV LR. So the price of the ZS was dropped by quite a bit. Everyone wants the MG4 and not the MG ZS EV. Apart from price and that they are electric cars, they are more different than they are the same

@dyu999 2 дня назад

The good news is its selling at A$27000 atm 😂😂😂

@nevillevaneerten 11 месяцев назад

It comes with the V2L, well at least the Essence does, not sure about the Excite. The Essence sound system is very good

@Phantoma3 11 месяцев назад

Is that a Chinese EV?

@Flaskkorv 11 месяцев назад

Awesome video

@davidpicard5376 11 месяцев назад

I've been thinking about the concept of polluting by proxy. It's something worth a consideration.

@theairstig9164 10 месяцев назад

Remote combustion. If the electricity is coming at you retail it could be from coal or gas but you would not know

@Sgten01 11 месяцев назад

u know its good when a dutchman wants to pay for it.

@MT-ys6ju 10 месяцев назад

It's definitely cheaper if you are lucky enough to be able to charge the car at home.. in Europe public charging is 0.70c (NZ$1.25)/kWh. It would cost €66.02 (NZ$118.08) to do the whole trip. On a petrol hybrid with a consumption of 6.5l/100km it costs €61.30(NZ$109.65) to do the same trip. This is with the current price of petrol of €1.80/l (NZ$3.21). Unfortunately at the moment, with the price of EVs, it's just not worth it, unless you have a garage at home. Also where i live, electricity is still very much generated with fossil fuels. In terms of CO2 emissions, there is very little difference at all. I really think EVs are cool.. but there is still much to be done before i would ever consider buying one.

@amesoeurs 9 месяцев назад

is it true that you cannot schedule charging times with this car? other online sources say you can with the app.

@mysticchicken9780 11 месяцев назад

The only mg with a byd blade battery.

@GlenisRetiredNZ 11 месяцев назад

You did a long distance trip in a BYD and the mileage seemed much closer to the WLTP range - am I correct? I need a guaranteed 320km as the only charger would be within that 80% one way

@andrewcumming6319 11 месяцев назад

Sounds great, love the car. I read somewhere that it costs $285 for the first years service and $850 for the second years service. To me, the service charges are way too expensive. What do they do to warrant $285, let alone $850?

@nevillevaneerten 11 месяцев назад

You can prepay for the first 80k at a preset and lower price

@davidbrowne587 11 месяцев назад

First service is at 2 years. 40000 km

@kiwikrazykid 11 месяцев назад

Services are every 2 years as well, not annually

@theairstig9164 10 месяцев назад

The list is on the MG Dealer website

@twisted_panties 6 месяцев назад

Good presenter, very watchable.

@martiruda 11 месяцев назад

350km is beyond perfect. Anyone who thinks they can drive for more than 3 hours holding the guts tight not wanting to stretch or buy a coffee and use that relative time to fast charge the battery then they are lying.

@RushfanUK 10 месяцев назад

It's only 217 miles, I do a 335 mile run without stopping in the UK.

@FilmModeler 11 месяцев назад

Doesn't the phone App allow you to set a timer for charging at night??

@davidbrowne587 11 месяцев назад

I think so. Mine has this feature but not the one pedal driving he showed on another video. Might be an update thing

@theairstig9164 10 месяцев назад

MG iSmart is only available in higher grades. The option is there. Or get a wall box and program that

@davidblyth9507 9 месяцев назад

@@theairstig9164that's not true. MG iSmart Lite is available on all the models and it does have the option to set scheduled charging through the app. Edit: that's here in Australia but I'd be very surprised if Kiwis don't get the same.

@MikeKim-m1o 8 месяцев назад

When you turn on Air-condition MG4, you can hear very loud annoying noise anyone agree with me? (you have to hear it from outside of the car)

@robertoliver9619 11 месяцев назад

hey are your prices right? I see the 3rd level car at 54k on the mg site and 47k on your vid...hoping you are right!

@glennmorrell8964 11 месяцев назад

the 47 is after the clean car rebate $7015

@slavs94 11 месяцев назад

MG4 or used Model 3 ?

@FallenAngel53 11 месяцев назад

MG4 for me anyway 😂

@davidbrowne587 11 месяцев назад

Us to. The used teslas are 45 to 50 grand

@theairstig9164 10 месяцев назад

Depends on your view of the Tesla M3 dash layout. I hated it

@danielcolceru3840 21 день назад

Got a used MG4 SE with 14.5 k km for a very good price.

@balkanleopard9728 11 месяцев назад

350 km WLTP range is about 310 km real world. Next given that (in Europe) public chargers on motorways are about 40 to 50 km apart you need to keep around 40 km in your back pocket just in case the charger you arrive at is not working for some reason. The real world workable range is now down to 270 km. Next if we're traveling at motorway speeds energy consumption is about 20%+ higher than than mixed driving - so now we're down to about 210 km real world range, or about 1/3rd of a pretty normal ICE vehicle. Sorry, but that doesn't look like a deal to me.

@davidbrowne587 11 месяцев назад

We get 330km out of ours in normal driving. 300 on a longer trip

@WrathChild-NZ 11 месяцев назад

wait, cars have speed limiters?

@MasterChief37 11 месяцев назад

They do. On mine I usually set the speed limit to 5km over the posted speed, the car reads the speed signs and goes up and down depending on the limit. Adaptive cruise control is the bomb.

@WrathChild-NZ 11 месяцев назад

So what if you need to overtake a long truck and you floor it and forget its on a limiter and it wont let you pass in time? sounds dodgy!@@MasterChief37

@paulcarter605 11 месяцев назад

Flooring the accelerator overrides the limiter, as one would expect it to.

@MasterChief37 11 месяцев назад

@@WrathChild-NZ it’s only on the limiter when it’s using adaptive cruise, floor it and you over ride it. The acceleration of my car is nuts, if you’re doing 100 and floor it to pass a truck if you’re not careful you will hit 160 in the time it takes to get past it.

@WrathChild-NZ 11 месяцев назад

@@MasterChief37 oh I seeee. Must've missed that bit.

@dicky-duck6632 11 месяцев назад

No speed limit is a deal breaker for me, I won't buy it for this reason alone.

@davidblyth9507 9 месяцев назад

There is a speed limiter, you just have to turn the adaptive cruise control off and the speed limiter becomes an available option.

@mikewant5230 10 месяцев назад

MG4 in China only costs you less than 20000 US dollars. Poor foreign customers!

@renbangbprd7236 8 месяцев назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M0c_CIbIRNg.html Hi can you please do rear passengers test on Dolphin?

@Goldfish1ful 2 месяца назад

Marmite all day long

@MasterChief37 11 месяцев назад

I don’t think you should call 50kWh a rapid charger, that’s a slow charger.

@Vaasref 7 месяцев назад

When you don't lug around a big battery 50kW is plenty fast. The battery is 51kWh anyway and can only go higher than 80kW (officially 88kW) on the best conditions, so on a 50kW you don't loose much that much time anyway. There is also the added benefit of those lower echelon of chargers, they are usually much cheaper and looked down at from other EV owners so less likely to be busy, and for the longevity of the battery on top of it being LFP already, charging at less than 1C shouldn't degrade the battery at all. The only thing the 51kWh model could really do better would be on AC charging, being stuck with single phase instead of a 22kW three phases of the MG4s with NMC batteries really hurts. Here in France a lot of supermarkets offer a free hour of 22kW 3 phases AC charging if you have their loyalty program card.

@MasterChief37 7 месяцев назад

@@Vaasref I have a Mini Cooper 50kW is adequate for that, the battery is small, but I also have a BMW iX, a 50kW charger is not what I want to use on a road trip. Anything above 150kW is what I prefer to use.

@paulcarter605 11 месяцев назад

Loved your previous videos but this one, I gave up after 6 odd minutes. You managed two glaring errors in that time. The car does have a speed limiter, if you haven't found it I'm not sure you actually had the car for an extended time. Secondly, you do not get 230volts by simply plugging in the V2L adaptor, discharge from the car must be set on the screen. Sorry, mate, not your best effort by far.

@stevenswann2835 11 месяцев назад

A little less lecturing and virtue signalling, and more info in the car would be great, thanks.

@MasterChief37 11 месяцев назад

The idea that Ecotricity is 100% renewable is also bs, if my neighbour is using Genesis and I’m on Ecotricity how the fuck are my watts any different to his? Anyone who falls for that is a moron.

@christophertan3195 11 месяцев назад

imagine being a snowflake about saving the planey 🤣

@MasterChief37 11 месяцев назад

@@christophertan3195 the. Planet is fucked, I also own to electric cars and live in a country where all electricity is from renewable sources, unlike this smoke and mirrors bullshit. It’s a disgrace that they can get away with it and that idiots buy into the ideas

@newbris 8 месяцев назад

Cooker alert

@MasterChief37 8 месяцев назад

@@christophertan3195 owning an EV is not about saving the planet, it’s about cheaper running costs and next to no maintenance.

@TimBorg 11 месяцев назад

it's a lemon that will probably blow up this guy is not telling the truth about the super low build quality and unreliability

@songlining 11 месяцев назад

As the owner of a MG4, I find your comment quite laughable. The build quality is very good actually. It's a new car on the market, so there's no way you can tell its long term reliability at the moment.

@jonathankapoor2389 11 месяцев назад

I purchased this car today, same spec. We do road trips a handful of times a year and realised the 51kw would be enough because we stop every 1.5 hours when driving for at least 15 minutes.

@sleepeasyrelax 11 месяцев назад

Great review thanks Gav, nice to get a longer term picture of how it is to live with the car and its day to day performance. Really like your videos. Cheers Keith.

@shaunhowarth 11 месяцев назад

Another brilliant episode, I lived (actually born in Patea) near here and was there at the end of 2020 and the wind farm could been seen easily from the Patea Beach area. I believe this is the way to go, given the area the electricity should be produced close to where it's needed, the energy losses be transmitting it over large distances can be significant, lots of power probably used here as a very dense diary farm area in South Taranaki.

@budawang77 5 дней назад

Price has just ben slashed in Australia to $31k drive away. Great value!

@dyu999 2 дня назад

27000 @ carsales aus

@justice4g 5 месяцев назад

wish I liked the look of it

@1DonFF 11 месяцев назад

They should give the options to put in a better speaker if we wanna decide to pay for it, also cooled seats

@t8polestarcyan22 11 месяцев назад

Essence 64 have 6 speakers if that suffice.

11 месяцев назад

thanks great video, I think the only thing that needs this car is a panoramic roof, by the way do you have a review between this car and the BYD dolphin? saludos from Mexico

@rwayle 11 месяцев назад

Don't have an MG4 but the light issue in the back is a problem with the ZS EV Excite too and it's not something you think about it until you're trying to get your kid out of their carseat at night

@alaznispireli7481 11 месяцев назад

tooo expensive must be half price than it has, even less.

@theairstig9164 10 месяцев назад

Until the price of a base model Corolla rises to be $40k and there is a two year wait. Then it’s kind of ok

@tonymartin9938 11 месяцев назад

RUC's would add about $37 to your trip. It's also $17k more than say a base Jolion. That is about $150 per month in interest charge. It will be good when EV's are not artificially supported. And let's not start with fires.

@richardweaver8696 11 месяцев назад

The minute you mentioned fires I knew you didn’t know what you were talking about. Can you explain the maths for your road user charges please.

@devonbikefilms 11 месяцев назад

So crickets then?….😂😂

@bartdeking 11 месяцев назад

Okay, 31 bird killing and horizon poluting and future waste turbines for 56000 homes at a cost of 300 million$. Nz counts 1.900.000 homes this means another 1000 of these and it would just covering nz homes. Or $10.000.000.000 Not taking into account EV drivers. EV users use 2/3 more electricity than a normal home so that means if everyone is forced into an EV that you need another 700 of these killing machines or 1700 total. Just to cover homes. Not industry. To cover all you need around 3 times that 5100 or 51,000,000,000 Know that wind energy is the most dangerous and has the highest life costing form of energy.

@davidbrowne587 11 месяцев назад

No they don't. We've got solar panels and we now use a third less power than before we had the panels and the electric car.

@bartdeking 11 месяцев назад

@davidbrowne587 nice man that YOU have that. I bet that 99% of ev drivers don't.

@r1chardbwrn 5 месяцев назад

The RSPB here in the UK, allowed a wind turbine to be build next to one of their nature reserves; the data shows impact on wildlife is minimal and far less to most other power generating methods. Had the MG5 estate for the last year, great car. If we needed a second car the MG4 would be high on the list. Firmware updates fixed the issues we first had and now no complaints.

@bartdeking 5 месяцев назад

@r1chardbwrn super nice that 1 research contridict all other research out there dispite that these people conducting that kind of research are often indoctrinated by the religious climate cult. often these research projects are funded by the climate cult to make wind turbines look pretty. Any rational person can see that wind turbines are heavy industry in nature and often destroying views. Anyone else that wants to build industry in those location would never get a permit or would need to pay huge money where these religious status can be planted anywhere.

@bartdeking 5 месяцев назад