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.

My favourite reviewer! NZ conditions and towns…awesome.

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!

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.

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

9 ай бұрын

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

@TheEtpulsar

8 ай бұрын

@@glennmorrell8964 Same for us

@philipepics

18 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Very useful review and nice family! 👏👏

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

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

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

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.

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

Good presenter, very watchable.

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.

Awesome video

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

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 😞

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.

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

9 ай бұрын

yep. true story

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

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

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.

@MUFC1933

9 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

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

@MUFC1933

8 ай бұрын

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

@craybro

8 ай бұрын

@@MUFC1933 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

8 ай бұрын

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

@t8polestarcyan22

8 ай бұрын

Essence 64 have 6 speakers if that suffice.

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

Definitely needs rear ceiling lights especially for the trunk

@honesty_-no9he

5 ай бұрын

Market is full of LED light kits.

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.

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

@theairstig9164

8 ай бұрын

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

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

9 ай бұрын

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

@davidbrowne587

8 ай бұрын

First service is at 2 years. 40000 km

@kiwikrazykid

8 ай бұрын

Services are every 2 years as well, not annually

@theairstig9164

8 ай бұрын

The list is on the MG Dealer website

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

9 ай бұрын

the 47 is after the clean car rebate $7015

The only mg with a byd blade battery.

wish I liked the look of it

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

@davidbrowne587

8 ай бұрын

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

@theairstig9164

8 ай бұрын

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

@davidblyth9507

7 ай бұрын

​​@@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.

This is going to sell like hot cakes in Australia.

@theairstig9164

8 ай бұрын

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

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.

Is that a Chinese EV?

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)

wait, cars have speed limiters?

@MasterChief37

9 ай бұрын

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

9 ай бұрын

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

9 ай бұрын

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

@MasterChief37

9 ай бұрын

@@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

9 ай бұрын

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

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

MG4 or used Model 3 ?

@MUFC1933

9 ай бұрын

MG4 for me anyway 😂

@davidbrowne587

8 ай бұрын

Us to. The used teslas are 45 to 50 grand

@theairstig9164

8 ай бұрын

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

kzread.info/dash/bejne/f2SXwaWCkqy4fso.html Hi can you please do rear passengers test on Dolphin?

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

8 ай бұрын

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

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

9 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

So crickets then?….😂😂

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

@theairstig9164

8 ай бұрын

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

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

@davidblyth9507

7 ай бұрын

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

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

@Vaasref

5 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

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

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.

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

8 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

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

@r1chardbwrn

3 ай бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

@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

3 ай бұрын

@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.

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

@MasterChief37

9 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

imagine being a snowflake about saving the planey 🤣

@MasterChief37

8 ай бұрын

@@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

6 ай бұрын

Cooker alert

@MasterChief37

6 ай бұрын

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

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

9 ай бұрын

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.