FYI, I purchased a brand new one recently, reduced to $35,990 drive away, $34,490 drive away with ABN, we said to the sales person if you could do $1000 cheaper than that, you have a deal today. We ended up getting the car for $33,490 drive away, minus Queensland rebate $6000, and claimed the GST ended up $24,141 on the road, it is pretty damn good and the car is very good, prefer way more than the MG4 as size is nice, boot isnt an issue for me, it looks way cooler and it is a very rare car on the road which is what i love.
I have an Ora in NZ.I saw a lot a reviews "complaining" about the indicators before I purchased and was a bit worried about how they would operate. The dealer showed me how to use them and I have had no issues after 5 Months. My local GWM dealer has told me that they now have the Andriod Auto license and are just waiting for a couple of more updates before getting my car in to install.
That's excellent. So it's just getting used to them being a bit vague. Android Auto should be available in Feb in Australia.... though GWM has over-promised and under-delivered before on the carplay and android.
That is odd about the no voice control as the one we test drove late last year it had voice control. It was not the same as the one that ended up being released, but the salesperson at the time said the only difference would be that our one would get heated seats. The new Ultra and GT have a lot more extras like ventilated, massage, and even memory drivers seat, even a powered tailgate and auto parking, so it's possible those 2 could get voice control as well? They are due very soon
Cool! What other choices do you have there for EV's? I heard some brand (VW?) was selling a cheap EV in South America, but it has NO safety features so is a bit of a death trap. I'll try to find the video.
We have the BYD Dolphin, Volvo ex30, MG4, Seal, ioniq, many Leapmotor, Chery, and Dongfeng ev models, bestune nat, seagull, hozon neta v and upro, several JAC models, and there must be some others in this price range I'm missing @@stormjuice
Even Western Australia gets snow, although only on remote mountains. Snow mode WOUDL be useful in places like the Blue Mountains where there might be one fall per year, and to the west, where there is more frequent snow. And I do wander what conditions led to the Snowy Mountains being so named.
Well, I've only ever heard of snow falling on that 'mountain' (large hill)... Bluff Knoll, and it's barely any snow at all... melts pretty quickly on the rare occassions it snows there.
Could you do another review now you have owned it for a while? How reliable are all the tech parts like auto steer and the distance keep on cruise control? What's your average effeciency?
Will do in a few months. Efficiency is pretty good actually. Even got home the other day with 3% after doing about 300km (70% highway)... surprised me.
Cheers Rob. Ended up being done much later than planned. I had the blue one for a couple of days, nearly 2 months ago, but it had an issue charging at ABB chargers (known issue in UK and fixed via a software update), then I went on holiday for 2 weeks, then borrowed the white Ora (got some better footage with the DJI Action 3 I bought). Then borrowed the blue one again to take it to the World EV Day in Mandurah, and filmed a fair bit more, but the damn sd card got corrupted while I was copying files across (!). So eventually got it done with less footage (sorry), and then edited it wrong so it was 34 min (when you leave a bit of footage on another layer in Prem Pro it encodes the whole lot... anyway... dumb mistake), so had to re-edit, re-export and re-edit the posts on FB. Sorry, I'm ranting :) Glad you enjoyed it. Ludicrous Feed also released a review on the same day... it's very good (and more detailed on the settings). He also had an issue with the indicators, but explained it much better than I did :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nfblKByJ2AM.htmlsi=0TIyopBIWHYydRHl
Cheers :) Got it done in the end, in spite of all the technical issues (inc the horrible sound on the final video (sorry)... sounds like I recorded it on the toilet (I can neither confirm nor deny :) ). Well, now I've gone and bought one (SR) on novated lease through my work. 4 years. Scary! My partner was telling me to just stick with my 150km range Leaf, but I guess I wanted a change, and I hope it's worth it. Anyway, I'll be doing more in-depth stuff on the Cat when I get it (already bought some 'interesting' badges from AliExpress as it's not got much in Australia (badge-wise). Tom did a great job of looking through the menu's/options, and I'll do something like that in a separate video (inc playing Mp4's, which is footage I lost, otherwise, would have been included on this video).
I went to the sydney show and surprised myself by liking this car to sit in, the most in the show. Including with a new tesla and various SUVs. It just seemed that it would be so easy to drive...
To be fair, they are all really easy to drive, but yeah, the Ora is great to drive (not as great as the MG4, but it's nowhere near as well featured or value for money).
I found this, which may be helpful (it's a setting you can change): Creep function Turns the creep function on or off. When this function is on the vehicle has been started (the light is illu- minated), switch into Drive gear and release the hand brake and the brake pedal. The vehicle will slowly crawl for- ward without needing pressure on the accelerator pedal.
Can't trust many of the resources though, which is why I went direct to GWM. They didn't specify anything except Svolt. I don't think they would outsource NMC as they already make their own, anyway. Probably a big part of the reason BMW went to them to make the new Mini.
The way i see it MG fun but ugly. BYD good but slow. and not as stylish. GWM perfect other then the indicator lol. you're ORA is just like mine will be. I saw the mods on the group ( i loved the Fuck it edition lol ) The style is 100% stunning i see lots of classic German cars on it with a HINT of fiat. and Forget the NEXT gen Mini. Just get a ORA LOL hehe Love the video. very well made :)
Shame that GWM have skimped out on the sunroof for the base and long range models, unlike in Asia and China.😞 And why boring black interiors for the lower priced models?? Not so in the UK.
The only one's which have two-toned interiors elsewhere are the Aurora and Red one's. We still have the Aurora two-toned in Australia. I don't like sunroofs.... especially in Australia. Too hot, can't tint them (risk of cracking), and can leak after time.
You must love it even more now that it's $36k on the road. The Ultra or GT (or both) have a sunroof. They'd be a fair bit cheaper now as well. If you are in QLD then you also get another $6k off.
You will never get the driver monitor to work. Gwm didn't install it on all the cars except the GT model in NZ and Australia and didn't tell anyone. They have yet to be able to find a fix for it. Maybe this week they will. Yeah right.
I thought it wasn't in there (cost cutting). I'm glad though.... rather not have it annoy me every time it thinks I'm asleep while driving (I need my beauty sleep).
Fair enough... also a great car (better to drive and brilliant one-pedal-driving). It was very close.... I think the warranty service costs killed it for me, and also the lack of features in the base spec vs the Ora or Dolphin. If they'd had blind-spot assist at least, in the base, I might have been persuaded.... actually, no... would have to have birds-eye-view to have made me try to forget the warranty costs.
Nothing wrong with that, it's all about your priorities as to which one is more suitable. I think those who find MG4 lacking will definitely find the ORA fills the gaps and vice versa. They do the opposite things really well, but both still EVs meeting a price that more people can get into. Style will have a lot to do with which is selected. Some will find the ORA too out there and others will appreciate it's style. I think you will fall into one of those boxes. I thoroughly compared the Standard Range MG4 and ORA as that was the budget for a second EV and not a cent more before landing on the ORA, but not by a huge margin.
Totally agree. Both great cars, but in different ways. When I first went to pick up the first Ora for review, I took a car-nut friend (who is an architect and loves good design/styling, so he's owned Audi TT etc and now has some 3-cylinder BMW hatchback). He has a sarcastic soh and made me laugh when he said the Ora looked very MANLY. Funnily enough, he loved the MG4 (styling and drive), and wasn't bothered by the cheap plastics. He lives in an apartment though so isn't as easy for him to charge if he did get an EV. You are right... I like cars with personality. I have owned 2 Nissan Cube Z11's (the squarer one than the Z12).... my favourite car design of all time (if only it was affordable to convert one to EV). So what made you choose the Ora, if they were so close? The service warranty costs?
@@stormjuice my daughter is the primary user, so that was a factor. Safety tech was important. I know I'll be a passenger more than driver for this car, so accepted that was important. They loved the look of the car, whereas I liked the look of the MG4. We all drove (the licensed ones) and were passengers in both cars. Basically we all came to the same conclusion. The comfort and tech in the ORA edged out the nice driving feel in the MG4 and it's darn nice, the steering feedback is excellent in the MG4. We wanted a bit of both, but strangely enough that's what a Tesla has the best of both in many aspects. The ORA is darn cute, but yet not tiny in the cabin so a family of 4 without young babies, it just was the right choice. Both can do many things better and I don't think a Tesla is perfect either. First of all, wanted to go to all EVs. It's pretty easy to get $0.08 per kWh electricity plans at the moment (if you can schedule charging). We have some solar, a Tesla Wall Connector and off street parking sorted. So it all just makes senses right now and I've been watching the EV space for a while. It made sense for ride share/taxi a while ago to get into an EV. Now I think makes sense for more than just early adopters. Super early adopters often pay a large price for entry and that seems to be over or on the cusp of finishing up.
One more factor for heavy consideration, is the model 3 refresh was potentially also a very good choice, but this was substantially cheaper and available within days. I waited almost 4 months for a Tesla. Nobody likes waiting :) and didn't need something that big for this job.
