@@MrSimplesimon007 it's not the best. But, you'd need to be pretty determined to want that little bit of corner entry fun to spend £20k to get it. Add in the way cheaper running costs, and the MG4 is the only real choice.
Money aside - yes, I reckon the Golf R is the more fun car. But, a near £20k price difference...????? Us Brits love a bargain, so the XPower will sell by the bucket-load 😉
@@user-jh6vt8vx4v next to nobody track a golf r consistently. There are better cars for track use . Occasional fun on the nurburgring maybe. Both will be fine but EVs will struggle to charge there atm.
I've driven a xpower according to the sales guy, yes it is a bit of a one trick pony and they could have made it drive like a 4wd rally car, but in reality what people want something to show off at the lights, but in everything else 99.9% of the time something that is soft and comfortable and that is what the mg4 provides.
It may be the lesser car dynamically, but the MG 4 of course makes MUCH more sense financially. Especially to your average family man or woman with children to support. I just wish the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles was more substantial in rural areas. Especially in North Wales where I live. Running an electric vehicle up here can be a very anxiety inducing experience sadly. Can I make it to the next charging station, and will their be any free ports even if I do get there?, is always a worry.
Having owned an Xpower for nearly 2 weeks and 1k miles - to counter the comments about the regular MG4 being more fun due to balance - what you can do in the Xpower is set up a custom drive mode - 'Eco' power (which only really uses the rear motor) with 'sport' steering and 'sport' throttle response and you've got yourself a 280ish hp rear biased MG4 - 230hp from the rear with a further 50 or so from the front. BUT when you want straight line speed (i.e. not on a winding country road) switch the Xpower to SPORT and you've got 430hp and 4WD. That's it's selling point for me, the versatility - aside from noise, there's not much else significant you could need from another car.
@@Neil2022it always starts in normal mode, and custom only remembers the power setting I think, you’ll still need to set steering and pedal response each time
It's too heavy and weirdly proportioned. So no matter the price, Cars like the MG are flawed regardless of price. Hot hatches in the UK are popular for a reason from a fiesta ST to audi RS3. They are small
@trevorberridge6079 hot hatches are about balance of all aspects of performance not just Traffic light GP I can guarantee no one will take the MG to a track day for 2 reasons. Its heavy and it won't be fun to chuck around. The same reason a BMW M3 touring beat a tesla model s plaid around the Nurburgring
Cars that are £15000 apart are NOT comparable. Take which ever golf you can get for £36k and test it against the MG4 XPOWER and then see which wins. Also how did you release this video without a side by side drag race! What a missed opportunity.
@@mauricetoussaint7283 MG is the second best selling EV in UK after Tesla and forth in Europe. Wake up mate. Check out the video MG4 vs Lamburghini vs GT-R and then speak nonsense.
One thing I noticed driving the X-Power is that it is more predicable than the regular 4 which is no bad thing actually, especially if you aren't used to RWD, Push the regular 4 a bit and the rear end could catch you out.
£50k for a golf is absolutely insane no matter what way you slice it. Was tempted to replace my mk5 edition 30 with a mk7.5R but after the test drive it felt dull compared. It was definitely more competent but didn’t have that same fun factor.
When closet petrohead reviewers compare ICE and EV cars they forgive outrageous ICE prices if the car is good enough "fun". If the MG4 cost £53,000 they would have a meltdown about how all EVs are very expensive. Remember how everyone drooled over the £1m Bugatti Veyron? It could do 252mph but could happily run it's tank empty in as little as 50 miles (4 laps of the Nurburgring) and would never go near it's top speed anywhere outside of a dedicated high speed track. The original was beaten on the Top Gear track by a £50,000 Ariel Atom - 20 times cheaper. The £1.7m Supersport version was beaten by a £125,000 Ariel Atom. That's 14 times the price for a car 1.7 seconds slower. But, they all craved an opportunity to drive it because of it's top speed. The price became almost incidental. Funny that!
@@trevorberridge6079 but Ariel Atom is essentially a bigger go-kart - no roof, no doors, top speed 150ish the most. It's fun for what it is but it's not a luxury, speed breaking hypercar you could daily (if you were a billionaire)
@@trevorberridge6079 that's not the point I was making - it's just a completely different kind of vehicle. I have yet to see one in a wild but I've seen some Veyrons...
I'd go with the XPower and add a nice set of performance coilovers to improve handling/fun factor and pocket a ton of extra $$$ over the golf. Running costs should be lower on the MG as well.
You have to be sure to get any suspension work on an electric vehicle (more so than a petrol vehicle even) done by a knowledgeable professional. It is all too easy to end up with a MUCH worse handling and riding vehicle by throwing on the wrong setup. You will not void your warranty doing this however, which is something many people don't know.
@@neilmcguinness4422 I get that, but this is true in ICE cars and also with ICE motor/drivetrain mods. If you are moddin'g you are on your own to know what you are doing and for issues that may arise. I've modified two EV's for track use and done so in concert with a EV knowledgable speed shop with good results.
The Golf is a lot more expensive to buy, a lot more expensive to run and less powerful than the MG. But people like to moan about electric cars being too expensive 😂
Sorry... Had to laugh aloud at the comments that the Golf's transmission "doesn't waste an ounce* of power". So many things wrong with that statement I don't know where to begin. So, how about all the heat, noise from friction all through the thousands of moving parts that make any ICE remarkably energy inefficient against the energy input compared to a BEV. (* An ounce can be used to measure weight, mass and even fluid volume - but not power)
Before I bought my ID3+ I owned about 5 DSG gearboxes & I can tell you that you are on soft ground trying to compare a mechanical transmission with that of a seamless BEVs transmission with instant torque. My ID3+ cost me €34k, which was a lot less than your R Golf & with RWD was a lot of fun to drive, & a HELL of a lot cheaper!
Just get the MG4 Extended range, 77kW battery, 245bhp, still rwd, low sixes for 0-60 and probably handles better than the Xpower. I'll let you know when mine arrives :D
MG is upstarting VW hard with their MG4. Not only does it best the German brand's ID.3 EV hatchback in value & quality, the Xpower trounces the Golf R and the ID.3 R is still only a wishful thinking.
If the biggest issue is too much power to the front wheels out of a corner, that can be likely fixed in a software update. In fact they could just add a new preset 'hot hatch' where the power ratio is sent biased towards the rear wheels
Im sure thats a new set of tyres would make a world of difference to yhe MG handling. But to be truthful the roads are terrible, pot holes everywhere and slow running traffic everyone stuck at 50- 70 mph. Where do you go tge throw your car around and have fun when theres cameras and idiot's everyone???? Cars are just like appliances, take them out, use them and put them away....the world doest really exist where your driving fast and power sliding your Golf R everywhere!! Save £20,000 and but the cheaper more practical MG, it just makes more sense.
But they will be able to upgrade the controller power between the engine in the MG4, also the golf is twist the price.. so MG4 is a lot better not hatch
Were you in sport mode???Shuffles between 2 and 4 wheel drive if not, giving you an odd feeling when driving it hard. Sport mode keeps permanent 4 wheel drive and a much sharper throttle and steering response.
At that price point, does the reviewer expect the MG4 XP to handle like an M2, A45 or Audi RS3? How does the MG4 XP compare to the other electric hot hatches from Audi, BMW and MB? Oh, that's right, they haven't released ANY electric hot hatches yet. 🙄 When those manufacturers do get around to releasing hot hatch models, prepare to see prices of at least 50% more than the XPower.
They probably will be more expensive. Thats kind of how it works when you take the time to develop a chassis properly, don't put tupperware where the plastics should be and (mostly) avoid forced cheap labour. Of course don't let a little thing like massive human rights issues put you off that sweet, sweet sticker price - which will also get a lot less on resale meansing costs to own are likely to be pretty much the same. I suppose you would need to be able to count to notice that one though.
Good handling doesn't sell. Hardly anyone cares. If they did, Audi would have gone out of business years ago. Most buyers want headline figures for bragging rights and good finance deals, so from that perspective MG absolutely nailed it
And no mention that the MG also has torque vectoring so how hard did he really push it? Yes it might feel a bit understeery towards the limit but go beyond it and i bet it wakes you up!
So the answer is that MG spend £5k more on tuning the handling and improving the interior slightly and then they have an objectively better car for £10k less...no brainer.
Some people don't realise two major things about EV software: 1) You can control almost any aspect of how an EV performs with millisecond precision; 2) ICE cars have to be tuned UP to their standard performance levels. EV motors almost always have to be tuned DOWN to their operating power levels. If you just put an EV motor into a car and let it rip at full power and torque it will rip the axle clean off the car or shred the tires or both.
The ongoing problem that every manufacturer has right now, when making EV’s, is they put way too much emphasis on marketing how fast their 0-60mph time is. While doing so, they forget about all the other important things that car making includes, and that is driving dynamics and range. I wouldn’t care about this as much if these EV’s were priced accordingly, but most of them are well over the $50k mark here in the states, and if I’m going to buy an EV for that kind of money, I expect the vehicle, as a whole package, to be good. They just aren’t…
@@hardywoodaway9912 I have. Tesla Model S, Model Y, and a Hyundai Ioniq 5 AWD. The Ioniq 5 I loved. Wasn’t that impressed with the Teslas, except for their auto driving, which was cool. But build quality sucked on the Tesla’s. Zero thought into the interior design of them, and they even continue with that zero thought even to this day. All of them sucked on range for their price points. The Ioniq 5 needs to be at least $15k cheaper than what it is, and the Teslas like $25-30k cheaper IMO.
But they just are. A £1m Bugatti Veyron will run out of fuel in less than 50 miles if you put your foot down. How's that for poor range? A Volvo EX30 costs from £33,795 which is $42,538. 0-100kmh (0-62mph) in 3.6 seconds and a range of 250 miles all day. Five times the range for 1/24th of the price. And fuel will be cheaper, maintenance will be almost non-existant, reliability will be higher. Also much better equipped for moving multiple people and luggage. But, the Veyron can do 252mph. So I guess that makes up for the price and the range? By the way, manufacturers of ALL performance cars make a big deal of their sprint time. It just so happens that EVs are far more likely to have better ones compared to similar ICE cars. And don't worry about prices for EVs anyway. China already make EVs that are cheaper than it's even possible to make equivalent ICE cars. Everyone has agreed for decades that once EVs can produce batteries (the major expense) for less than $100 per kwh it will become impossible for ICE cars to be made cheaper. In China it's already down to $80 per kwh and falling. There isn't an "issue" raised trying to undermine EVs that hasn't been crushed. If you're worried about the expense of cars get a horse.
Or a Civic R, Fiesta ST, Megane RS and all the rest. Unfortunately they seem to be stopping making the fun cars now in favour of boring rubbish that has a good 0-60 time.
MMM, honestly I think the reviewer is picking at straws. There is a cohort who will want the drifting slip out tail style of the VW but I would say most people would value speed AND safety and that's where the MG has it all over the Golf. For a brand that was making very questionable vehicles just a decade ago MG has come a long way and much faster than Hyundai and Kia did as they climbed the ladder to automotive acceptance. The X Power is great but the future MGs will be remarkably good. Time for the old automotive companies of the western world to pull their fingers out and do better on pricing, value for money and good packaging or they will face the same sorts of problems the American makers faced when the Japanese started taking over their market.
So totally spot on. The Japanese so totally dominated the car market in America that workers in Detroit (the most famous car making city in the world at the time - once known as Motortown abbreviated to MoTown) took to the streets and actually killed a Chinese man thinking he was a Japanse worker "taking our jobs". The EVs are coming and this time China is the car king.
Not hard to price them low while you're doing hardly any chassis development, using plastics that would be at home in a selection box and paying close to nothing for the labourers who feel obliged to work for almost free. Never mind about silly things like human rights though, eh?
@@siraff4461 SAIC Motor (the owners of MG) have partnered with GM for quite a few years now and have learned a great deal about chassis development. They are learning fast...much faster than the South Koreans did in their march to become high value trusted brands. Also there is nothing wrong with the plastics in MGs. They are the same plastics used the world over in car industries. Chinese workers are commanding ever-increasing wages and slowly becoming more militant in getting them. Yes, I agree, there are human rights issues in China but for the average worker who just wants to get ahead the living situation is the same in any workplace you can pick around the world. SAIC's factories are clean, well-managed and, like the Japanese before them, offer the workers housing, healthcare and education in factory campuses.
@@siraff4461 VW and others seem to have no problem with partnering with these human rights abusers. You do know the BMWs being sold are Chinese built cars right?
The reality is, you only want to spend the cash for the Golf if you want a collectors item in 30yrs. 5 yrs ago, hitting those speeds/0-60 was the stuff of 100k super cars, Doris can now do it on the way to the post office for 37k!
I expected the Golf to come out on top by a huge margin, after all they’ve been refining it for nearly 50 years. I love my mk7 but if MG are anywhere near close with a brand new model, VW have work to do !
Not least because MG could potentially do an Over-The-Air update to tweak the front-wheel power delivery etc (addressing the understeer coming out of corners), given that it's a separate electric motor driving the front, not a mechanical differential, etc.
Trouble is, I like ICE cars and manual transmission and have no desire whatsoever for an EV. Happy to pay over the odds for a less efficient, harder to drive car and I reserve the right to select the wrong gear at any point during my journey! DOI: I have a chipped Golf R 7.5 which I may well end up keeping for far longer than I originally intended...
Agree and maybe I am getting old but the sound and feel of an ICE with a decent manual and great handling to boot will be missed...That is why I got the last of the RS's in the Megane 280 CUP...nothing but enjoyment from the moment you start the engine. Still the world is going EV and that will be the end for ICE soon but for the new generations that is all they will know and who knows they might even make great affordable hot hatch type EV's soon.
Yep. I'll be holding onto my 2018 Cupra 300 for as long as it takes for the world to realise that synthetic fuel, NOT boring, quiet EVs are the way forward.
Interesting comment, as I used to think that too. In fact I recently could have bought a ZT260 quite reasonably which I had really wanted for many years (and have had them in the past). But now? EVs are well-built, very fast acceleration, enjoyable to drive, MG gives a 7 year warranty, easy to recharge at home etc etc. Once you've had an EV it's hard to go back. No worries about fuel systems, water pumps, changing spark plugs.....
MG is so much cheaper than the Golf. For the cost of the Golf you could get a Tesla model 3 long range AWD - compare the Golf to that! No contest. The Golf is way overpriced.
You forgot to mention the Golf R is at least fifteen grand more. And then there are the running costs. But I suppose it does have four exhausts. Assuming they are real. And that is why the Golf is the better car (?)
MG isn’t in North America 😢 If it were, I’d buy this car. I love it. Still, the mk8 GTIs & Rs are so much better than silly journalists. I’m extremely happy I traded my 7.5 for my 8.
The 7.5 can thank the 7 for everything it is lol. So essentially, the 7 is peak GTI/R, especially when you could buy a base 7 brand new for $23k. The 7.5 was close to $30k base brand new.
@@JacesOwnWorldI think that any owner of a Golf 7R or 7.5R has reason to have a big smile on their face following the introduction of the 8R. For so many reasons.
I disagree, the 8R is better in every way, as stated in every review out there. no chrome on the dash or touch controls ? Who cares when you drive a better sporty car. Plus, the 8 is sharper and more aggressive when it comes to looks. I’m personally not into nostalgia. You might not have seen or driven one, obviously.
@@geronimooo260 Fair defence of the 8R. It is good that someone at least is standing it's corner out here. I have driven two DSG 8's and found the straight line performance and handling brilliant. VW's quoted power figure is rubbish, as these things have hit 340 bhp on a dyno. They FLY. The cabin is an ergonomic and tactile disaster though. This is the OVERWHELMING opinion of reviewers and test drivers and even honest owners alike. Did you actually even watch this video??. Such a brilliant driving machine deserves better than this appallingly thought out touchscreen mash up. The driver environments on the 7 and 7.5R are so much more smart and intuitive and a much nicer place to be. Not nostalgia. Just fact.
@@neilmcguinness4422 thanks 😊 I understand the criticisms about the ergonomics, there’s a real learning curve. I’ve been living with one for a year and a half, and after 7 to 10 days of getting used to, everything is in fact very simple and customizable. But not all reviewers have the time to do that, which makes sense. He says he hit the heated wheel, well I never did. Just because all testers don’t take time to learn the system, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. But I agree on the fact that if you have to take that time in this vehicule and not in its predecessor, then the predecessor’s ergonomy is better, no question. But is it a dealbreaker, given it’s more important qualities, certainly not, at least for me ! You mention honest owners reviews, well, most owners I know are very happy with it, but I’m open to being proven wrong. Given those facts, the 8 is a better vehicle overall, in my opinion.
Who is going to drive this pushing the back end out on our roads. Dear me do a review for regular roads not a track. Driven both and have more fun in a base one? The guy is absolutely tripping. Go and. Test drive one and ignore this guy.
The MG XPower is the ultimate werewolf in sheeps clothing. Get it in white and get rid of the yellow brake covers and you have the perfect sleeper, beware Porsches!
Imagine where the MG will be in a couple of generations' time. Oh and... y'know... it's electric? No more blown headgaskets and knackered water pumps. No more war in the [insert country] making the price of fuel go crazy. Etc, etc, etc.
Great. Ev's will stop wars. Lets not let things like human rights and child miners take away from that, eh? They will never break down either. Again lets not let little things like them consistantly coming at the bottom of reliability surveys put a smudge on that. Its great to know we won't need to import fuel though. I mean power stations run on fairy f4rts and dreams, right?
@@siraff4461You can buy the MG4 with LFP battery, so no cobalt involved. In the meantime big oil is still one of the biggest consumers of cobalt to desulphurize every single liter of fuel. Renewables already concern a big part of total electricity production.
@@Simon-dm8zv Average scrappage age in the UK is currently 14 years - it was more until some bright spark thought it was a great idea to throw away and build new cars. Anyway lets see the math over a 14 year lifespan - remembering most ice cars will have done that before any major work as thats usually (ignoring crashes and so on) the reason for scrapping. An ev won't be doing that on its first battery and judging by a lot of them it may well not on its second either if you want it to be anything like usable. So you're talking a car with over three times the inbuilt carbon footprint which will then need a big chunk of that replacing again at least once but somehow you think emissions will "always be lower"? Even if we take the production and recycling differences out - which are massive - then you still have power stations which run at around 45% efficiency and overall to the wheels efficiency around 20% - which lines up pretty well with a modern, efficient ice. If you have numnbers you can back up with fact and not Bobby Llew's kind of nonsense then I'm all ears. Oh and feel free to fact check anything I put - its all available freely online.
I think I would take stability and ride comfort over the rear slipping out and shredding the tyres, especially with it being faster and better accelerating. So I would buy the MG4 Xpower, but then I am no longer in my 20’s.
I'm with you, I don't get this "hot hatch" thing. My VW Polo is light, agile, go kart like. Rented Golf GTIs I have with 180kW are fast but don't inspire confidence in really winding roads. Reviews have always spoken of Golf Rs not being as "hot a hatch" as Civic Rs, Hyundais etc. But in creasy conditions I don't want FWD wheelspin or with RWDs, the tail hanging out. So are AWDs slightly duller by nature? A rented 911 4S was like this as well. You only have to watch RU-vid videos with RWD Mustangs crashing, after loosing traction. Here have an X-Power on order. But if after a test drive prefer the feel of a rear wheel drive Essence 64 will go with one of those. In this video would have liked to see a drag race and a 50 to 110km comparison. Otherwise enjoyed the video.
The Golf R is way more expensive. The better comparison would be with a Golf that costs £37k not £53k. The XPower is MG's first go at a hot hatch, it's only going to get better. Fossil burners are being left behind in terms of power, speed and technology - and they cost a fortune to fuel
I think it’s worth bearing in mind that the Golf is version 8 of a platform and has been developed and refined over a long long time. The MG is version 1 and yes it will always be different than an ICE car due to the EV tech and battery chassis, but imagine what it will be like in a couple of versions time. Batteries will be lighter and the chassis will get a lot of development. The Golf R is a classic and rightly so but in 10 years time there will be quite a few fantastic hot EV hatches out there.
Well.. I’m no driving god, last thing I want is the back end stepping out going into a corner, therefore Xpower is my preferred choice of transport especially when it’s £17000 cheaper as well!
i think the mg for me , dont get me wrong i have had a lot of golfs right from mk1 gti , but when i factor everything into it , the golf if more expensive to buy , the running cost , car tax ( golf would be £500 a year on new ) and the thing with golf r is how long will it sit on my drive for before someone takes it ? i think i would like to test drive the mg , i always hated mg , but as a kid a said i would never own a skoda , sold my superb 272 sportline plus last year and that was one of the best cars i have owned ..........
Anyone interested in a Golf R will probably never cross compare it with this Prius looking copy cat plastic thing. The MG interior doesn’t come close the the Golf R interior
Ironically, the Golf R interior is from an EV. And ID3. So you are comparing an EV interior with and EV interior. The VW however does not have backlit buttons to make them safe to drive at night.
I wonder if the MG4 could fix many of the handling issues with a bigger swaybar in the rear, to entice some lairiness, some stickier tires to give it more mid corner grip, and adaptive dampers.
The weight is a factor, but because the battery back is under the floor pan. So your C of G is lower compare to petrolium car and the weight dis is closer to 50/50. And the R is defintly bit head heavy, and the c of G is around where your crank shaft is. Hence, the EV is actually very fun to drive. And because its low C of G, you can corner more aggressively
He says fun is the only factor, I'd say fun and a rather huge 20k difference are the two factors and if you take both the mg4 wins hands down. A equally priced BMW would be a 320 sport (ie the base model with no options), still a good petrol car, but nowhere near the performance.
If thats all you're concerned about just go buy any old litre bike. Or any bike above about a 600 sports. Sub £1000 will easily get you something that won't break a sweat at a 4s 0-60.
At that price for the R probably better to compare to Tesla Model 3 performance. Which baring in mind 2.5p per mile in electric and tax savings on salary sacrifice, I’d take the Tesla everyday even if the Golf is better looking
You say the basic MG is more fun to drive, what about the MG4 extended range with 241 bhp and 350 nm of torque, and 6.5 sec 0-62 mph, how would that handle compared to the x power.
@@patpong5873true, but MK5’s are old. Body style is cool, but other than that, horrible maintenance issues, small engine, and throwing $8k to only make 350hp, when you don’t even need to spend $1k on the MK7 to make 350hp, is laughable, in regards to the MK5. The MK7 is great because it’s literally V8 fast for $1-2k in mods, very reliable (lots of 200k+ mileage MK7’s out there with zero issues), has all the modern tech, and gets great mpg’s. The MK5 is cool, but it isn’t close to the MK7.
@@JacesOwnWorld 8k is to buy the ed30 at stage 2+all done I never said 8k on modified parts shows how much you know about modified Golfs Ed30 Ko4 turbo very underrated Car considerably it's 2006 and 17 years old but will still surprise 😮 a few modern cars that cost alot of money 💰 show me a 2006 fwd car with 375bhp Rtech remap for 8k ? Mk7 R is quick and stage one is 380bhp but 1k plus 20k to buy makes it almost 3 times more expensive and alot of people that have changed from ed30 to mk7 R say its a bit safe and boring 😴 not as fun driving a fwd ed30 with same power every one has their own opinion
I had the mk 7 golf r for four years and now i've owned the mk 8 golf for 2 years, the performance and handling of the mk8 is head and shoulders above my mk 7
Going to 4WD was always going to dumb the fun down. If the Golf R was RWD and a 4WD came along it would be the same story, but Electric is never going to be as fun as petrol in a hot hatch, even if it is an auto. I had a mk 7r and the handling was fairly dull. Heard the FWD Clubsport was way more fun to drive.
With the infinite amount of performance control you can get in an EV it's only a matter of programming to determine how much "fun" you get out of it. EVs have far more potential for "fun". Being able to shred your tires with torque used to be a big deal with ICE cars. But the fact that EVs can spin up so easily is now seen as a bad thing. They also play down the EV "fun" factor of being able to sprint off the line really quickly. It had long been a selling point for ICE cars. Funny that.
@@trevorberridge6079 having owned an ev I can agree with some points. They are terribly easy to drive quickly and it is quite good fun being able to get the perfect braking & balance of throttle through and out of a corner, as well as being able to keep both hands on the wheel at all times. It’s also nice to have the instant torque on demand and the quietness brings an odd satisfaction. However, all of this also means there is less to do and less skill involved. For me, a rear wheel drive, manual, petrol engined car is always going to be more engaging and exciting, the fewer driver aids the better. The sound of a nice n/a engine is difficult to beat, even the smell of some ic cars helps. Even though 0-60 times etc seem still to be a bench mark of a performance car and the ability to do wheel spins and donuts is cool, you never really use those elements so have never really seen the point. Not ev bashing, just in my experiences they are not as fun and they don’t stack up to a great family car yet either. That said, I’m also a massive MG fan, so appreciate what they’re having to do and glad they don’t just have a crop of city run abouts. Despite all I’ve mentioned, I’d rather have the MG4 XPower over that Golf R because I think they are quite dull. It will be interesting to see how the cyberster does.
Jesus.imagine jumping an rs3 off the lights in this MG that just looks like a bloated renault clio. Lol. The golf R was fast but these new ev's are next level off the line. Wheres my hanky for the ICE car.
Personally I think it's astonishing that a Chinese EV even came into the running against a Golf, hats off to MG for that if nothing else. But if SAIC can get that close, just imagine what the likes of Audi, Mercedes, and VW could do if they really tried
Chinese EVs are WAY further on than you realise. They really are Tesla rivals and they are developing EVs at every level on mass. Battery prices are $80 per kwh in China and falling. Once China start exporting more of their cars legacy companies will have to watch out or they will cease to exist within ten years if they don't REALLY get on board instead of just playing pretend.
@@BSPBuilderAnd yet iirc they (SAIC / MG) are still supplying EV platforms to VW in China, because their platform is cheaper and better than VWs own (and VW are getting rinsed in the Chinese market atm)
One thing you never see mentioned in these Petrol vs EV tests - how much does the range drop in the EV given say, 30-60 mins of spirited driving? I bet 50 miles of driving in the MG would use well over 100 miles of range if using the performance.
I know someone with a mk5 edition 30 (same car I have) who tracks it and gets 8mpg when going hard on track. Anything will use a shit load of fuel driving fast. Even if you got 1 mile per Kw (normally achieve 4-5 from an EV) on a cheap tariff you’ll pay around 60p to drive 8 miles hard vs a gallon of fuel in the petrol car.
Having had an MG EV for over three years, you get used to plugging in at home, and to just leave it charging overnight feels easier than going to a garage.
@@CARmagazineTV Assuming you are near one of the few remaining Fuel stations left in the UK (this message is from 10 years in the future). But already well over 30% of fuel stations have closed in the last 10 years. Don't assume the whole country has access to stations. Once Supermarkets see EVs as having higher disposable income, those forecourts will disappear in a puff of profit.
You spent twice the amount of time talking about the MG, which makes me wonder if you’ve been paid by or asked by MG to do this review? I’d welcome clarity that this is an independent review of 2 comparable cars, and not marketing under a guise ….
Just wait till Hyundai ioniq 5n comes out, ive seen someone on RU-vid driving one, full electric over 600hp, can switch it so it sound like real hot hatch inside and outside an even fake gear shifts that sound real, or just have it on normal quiet mode, seems like a real fun car but got a feeling its going to cost a fortune here in the uk, we pay so much more for cars here than most other countries especially electric ones and our electric price per kw is really expensive too 🫣 kinda puts me off electric cars, they should just keep petrol and diesel cars in production for good,once petrol and diesel cars are gone i dont think many people will drive anymore
The MG Cyberster is coming and its alot bigger than an MX5 .... we can already guess it'll have the power, but will a drop top EV have the balance and poise?
I think the Golf is worth the Extra. It's a much better driver's car , with the added bounus of engine noise Plus I am sure the golf would be much faster on mountain roads or tracks . The MG is good for anyone who want just a traffic light beast and that's it. maybe they would introduce an Xpower Sport Plus with handling pack who knows lol.
