MG Motor Vehicles

The vehicle began to cut out at low speed, for example when parking . Then it happened at high speed on a highway almost causing potential… Read more

fatalities. MG ran tests and said there was nothing wrong with it and I should just continue driving it. Customer service were almost impossible to speak to and ultimately were of no help at all. The company refused to acknowledge the issue. I would recommend avoiding them at all costs.

I actually quite like this car! We had one as a rental, and after my terrible experience with an MG ZS—which was an absolute bucket—I was pleasantly… Read more

surprised. It felt nippy, handled well, and was genuinely enjoyable to drive.

The interior was nicely designed. Sure, it’s made from cheap materials, but when the car was new it cost $18,990 drive-away—it’s not fair to expect premium finishes at that price. I liked the tartan accents, which broke up the dark, hard plastics and gave the cabin some character. The seats were excellent: supportive, well-bolstered, and comfortable over longer drives. Boot space was also impressive for a car of this size, easily swallowing groceries, bags, or even a weekend’s worth of gear.

On the road, it felt well-matched to its engine. It could use a touch more power, but it never felt anywhere near as sluggish as the ZS. Highway cruising was surprisingly good, although the gearbox wasn’t the smartest—on hills it wouldn’t always hold a lower gear without some coaxing. Visibility was another strong point, with slim A and C pillars and a tall, wide windscreen making it easy to see out in all directions.

Is it refined like my family’s 2013 Kia Sportage or my 2022 Kia Sorento? No—but for what it is, it’s impressive. As long as you manage your expectations and remember it’s a sub-$20k car, it delivers great value. I’d happily recommend it as a first car, a runaround, a daily commuter or a grocery-getter.

My MG4 has exhibited multiple ongoing faults for more than two years, all of which have been reported to Pickering Luxury Garage Southport Pty Ltd,… Read more

MG Gold Coast and Pickering Automotive Group on several occasions. The dealership's service department claim these faults are “characteristics of the MG4” and therefore not reparable. The defects remain unresolved and seriously impair the safety, reliability, and usability of the vehicle. Furthermore, [Name Removed], Group General Manager of Pickering Luxury Garage Southport Pty Ltd (from whom I purchased the vehicle), has refused to engage in any dialogue regarding this matter and did not respond to my formal letter of demand dated 25 August 2025. The faults below have never been fixed see attached service report: Intermittent Cabin Heater: The heater fails to provide adequate or any warmth. In winter, it often blows air that is considerably colder than the outside temperature, making the cabin environment uncomfortable and unsuitable for normal use.

Intermittent Regenerative Braking: The regenerative braking system operates inconsistently. Despite various explanations provided by service staff, none have been accurate or resolved the issue. For example, the braking may function correctly at one intersection and completely fail at the next, even under similar speed, road, temperature, and battery conditions. This unpredictability presents a potential safety hazard, as the driver may expect the vehicle to slow down and it does not, possibly leading to accidents. Additionally, this failure limits battery recharging via regenerative braking.

Inaccurate Speed Sign Recognition: The speed sign recognition system frequently displays incorrect speed limits. Often significantly lower than the actual limit. This can lead to sudden and unnecessary reductions in speed, increasing the risk of rear-end collisions, especially when other road users are maintaining the correctly posted speed. Again despite various explanations provided by service staff, none have been accurate or resolved the issue, the latest reason was that it is advisory only and not to be relied on.

Computer Screen and System Malfunctions: The infotainment screen and associated systems (including audio, brightness settings, reversing camera, and Apple CarPlay) operate erratically. These issues have been recorded and reported with supporting photo and video evidence where safe and practicable. One of the MG staff members have personally observed these faults while he had personal use of the vehicle for a number of days and nights, yet none have been resolved.

Unexpected Emergency Braking: The vehicle has exhibited abrupt and unexplained emergency braking in the presence of oncoming traffic—particularly at intersections. This has occurred without valid cause and has led to dangerous situations where vehicles following behind are not expecting the sudden stop, potentially resulting in a serious traffic accident.

Year of manufacture 2022, bought new in 2024. On the 12 month service had done about 7000 kilometres. On this service it was suggested I needed new… Read more

front wiper blades, for approximately $135, I said no. 4 months later they are still fine. 35 degree day yesterday, used aircon for the first time, very disappointed. It was only cool not chilled at all. The GPS is bad, plain and simple. Travelling through Patterson Lakes in Victoria and it literally showed the car travelling over the blue squares which were the lakes! It regularly freezes and has to be entered again while travelling. Needless to say I use my phone now. There is an option to turn off the entertainment screen but it randomly starts up again. Driving in EV mode at approximately 70 kph it loses power momentarily then picks up again. Very dangerous, use petrol to overtake and for entering freeways. I would not buy another MG.

This is a review after 1 month of ownership. Although purchased as a new car, it didn't come with any manuals, but the dealer sent me a pdf version… Read more

which might have been the official one.

THE GOOD: #1. Seats, driver position: This is a very comfortable car to sit in and to drive, with lots of seat and steering column adjustments available.

#2. The acceleration, braking and handling are excellent.

#3. The setup of these (e.g. regenerative braking level, responsiveness of accelerator) is easy via the main, infotainment touchscreen.

#4. The range: Really does look like 400Km is practical for planning purposes, provided speed is limited to 80kph most of the time.

#5. Considering the above, this is pretty good value for money, once you have organised your workarounds for the bad points below.

THE BAD: #1. Switching from Drive (Forward) or Reverse to Park, getting out of the car and walking away DOES NOT TURN OFF ANY OF THE CAR'S FUNCTIONS: if the radio was on, it will stay on, and if it later gets dark, the headlights will come on and stay on until the battery is flat. The car will not give you any warnings or reminders. If you want to leave the car unlocked, either lock it again and then unlock it (not certain this works, though) or find "Power Off" in the correct submenu of the infotainment system (safer).

#2. Storage space is not quite so good as it might seem at first sight, with zero provided in the half-empty front compartment (bonnet), and a depression in the floor of the rear hatch which can be covered by a lid if you need a flat storage space - but that lid doesn't seem tough enough to handle my 30-40Kg SCUBA gear!

#2. Rear vision: (a) Just adequate in daylight with no rain, but the tiny rear wiper covers a totally inadequate area, half of which is obscured by the centre rear headrest, and (b) THERE IS NO REVERSING LIGHT!! Only a tiny reversing indicator light to satisfy regulations. - and the dealer warned me that fitting a usable reversing light would void the warranty. So reversing into an unlit driveway at night, the driver is virtually blind (the rear camera is not capable of operating in the dark, so the area behind the car is simply black).

#3. Collision Avoidance: There is no front proximity detector, so although there is protection against collision with obstacles at the rear, objects hidden below bonnet level at the front will not trigger alarm or braking, nor will an accidental creep forward in a traffic queue.

#4. Automatic Speed Limit Detection. This exclusively uses the A.S.* system to try to find numbers in the camera views and guess whether (a) the images really do contain numbers, and (b) whether those numbers are intended as speed limits. It works about 70% of the time, which is really good. However, it hallucinates 30% of the time, which is not quite so good, especially if it suddenly tells you the limit has increased to 100 in an 80 zone or 40 in a 100 zone. The output (DONT USE the automatic speed limiting!) is a 5+ second verbal announcement followed by a series of beeps, which blend in with the beeps from the 'hazard ahead' warning when the system notices there are cars parked at the sides of the wide road you are driving down

#5. Driver Interface screens and buttons. This is where the MG really falls down. Everything seems to be designed to draw the driver's attention away from the road ahead. The driver's central information screen is cluttered with low-priority inessentials, road speed is shown half way down the screen in less than generously sized numbers, any preset speed is off to one side, and pride of place is given to the vehicle's frequent guesses at the local speed limit. All the controls except lights and wipers are instantaneous-type pushbuttons, so there is no tactile feedback, and the status of the control has to be found by searching the screens. There are 3 independent systems for reaction to the random guesses of speed limit: (a) a simple warning system, with a long spoken announcement followed by beeps, controlled from one of the infotainment display submenus (b) an automatic speed limiter and (c) a standard cruise cotnrol. There are just 2 buttons on the left of the steering wheel which control many of the "driver assist" features, and their functions can change according to the order in which they are pressed, the direction they are pushed (5 directions for one button, 1 direction for the other) and how long they are pressed. These functions include cruise control and automatic speed limiting, and the driver can easily be surprised when the button which had just been used to initiate cruise control now changes to speed limiting. Just to confuse matters further, automatic speed limiting can suddenly self-self-enable after it had been turned off. I am sure there is a control sequence somewhere to enable/disable this function, but I can imagine nasty accidents during overtaking.

#6. Alarm and warning sounds. There are 2 different sounds which alert/confuse the driver to all manner of events. Sometimes it is just the presence of another vehicle, sometimes it is a car door not properly shut. There is also a voice warning, which is useful to identify a minority of issues, but more often there is little to indicate the source of the irritation. Sometimes, there is an inscrutable indication on the instrument display - such as "Warning: Ready Mode", which turned out to be an unsecured passenger door when attempting to change from Park to Forward.

#7. Charging is simple superficially -but the manual states that power must be turned off before commencing - and doesn't say how to do this. (the simplest way is to locate the "Power Off" button hidden in a submenu of the infotainment screen, otherwiselock the car - after unlocking it to connect the charger - then lock it again before turning on external power. According to the dealer, the car will actually power down automatically when external power is connected, but given the warning in the manual, I wouldn't trust that for rapid chargers, in case the switch is subjected to excessive stress. The manual also states that balance charging must be undertaken at certain intervals or after the battery has been discharged to a low level. Although references to this function occur in numerous places in the manual, NOWHERE is there any indication of how to accomplish this! (Eventually I found a UK version which told me that it happens automatically when needed, once normal charging completes and trickle charging has begun).

#8. The manual. As previously indicated, this is woeful. The English is good (no doubt proofread by AI), but extremely unhelpful. The instructions for the cruise control (p240-248) took a long time to decipher, owing in part to poor naming of features and failure to put diagrams on the pages that refer to them. As and when I have time, I will edit/rewrite parts before printing a copy fit for quick reference.

* A.S. : often misnamed A.I. but that's still in the future: there are specialist, algorithm-driven systems, and then there's A.S. Personally I'd rather trust H.S. (human stupidity), because it's more predictable.