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I have this XPower in the (exclusive, since you were wondering) green matte paint. The Bluetooth works perfectly as does Apple Car Play. The infotainment is fine generally as well. In fact since I bought the car last year I haven’t had a single issue with it. The acceleration as noted is wild. But not just in Sport mode. Even Normal mode gives you a genuinely hot hatch with acceleration that puts ICE cars in the shade. No, I don’t need 0-60 in 3.7s, but that isn’t the point because no one does or ever did. You don’t need 0-60 in 6.0s either but no one will blink if you take it. This car is a rare bargain - more fun per pound than anything else on the market - and MG deserve congratulations for launching it (no pun). The Smart #1 Brabus and Volvo EX30 have similar performance for much more money so it’s hard to make a case for either. Sincerely yours, One Satisfied Customer

I like how MG has catered for all with this going for Performance on one version and Range on another for a similar price 👍👍👍

This is how the VW Group should have dealt with Seat/Cupra mark.... Rather than having a Cupra Born which is basically the same price as an ID.3, they should have made a Seat Born for the same price as the MG4 range and given it a 'hot' Cupra halo model. The original ID.3 interior is probably good enough for a £25k car! 😀

Saw a 1/4 mile test with the X-power vs Audi e-tron GT. The MG won 2 out of 3. They are around 4x the price.

Thanks, yes rapid acceleration is great fun, my EV will get to 60 in under 5 secs but I rarely use it in sport mode, except to show passengers just what it can do. I would also choose the RWD.

Good honest review Jim - thanks👍

Nice balanced review of the X power. Thanks.

Another great video

Great vid. I tried one from my local mg garage and it was scary! Incredible performance for the money. The lane keeping assist tried to kill me four times though.

Definitely looking forward to the Cyberster with all wheel drive.

Nice review ❤ I have a ev6 325bhp plenty power 🔋 Beautiful car Beautiful drive Might get this Xpower too 😅

Nice review, Jim 👏🏼Insane performance for the money...but actually, it's just insane performance when you consider the type of car it is! Just a few years ago this sort of performance was only had with proper out and out sports cars and above. Crazy...but I love the idea of it haha! Totally agree with you on the brakes, those covers are a weeee bit tacky! Thanks for creating a really decent review to watch 👌🏼

A very interesting video. A Smart #3 Brabus will give similar performance for around £45 000 ,as will the Volvo EX 30 with 4 wheel drive. I prefer 4 wheel drive especially in poor weather but many think the rear drive cars handle better. I am thinking of buying the Smart and the problem with the Volvo is it just has a large central touch screen with nothing in front of the driver and no head up display.

I have the entry level MG4 and also the IPhone 14😊 On Saturday I was listening to football commentary on a local radio station on my phone and but needed to pop out. The radio station came through the car speakers as I got in wirelessly. It must have been that particular car that you was in 🤷🏼‍♂️ Great review of the Xpower by the way 😊

Great review. Bluetooth issues aren’t just your press car. I got my XPower lease in Dec 23 and while the drive/performance is great. Amazing value performance and the charging / range all seem pretty good. 200 miles on a full charge is about right. It’s just let down by the infotainment system - shocking. It won’t connect to Bluetooth, nor retain a connection when you return to your car and the iPhone CarPlay only works some of the time (genuine Apple cable by the way). The software takes forever to start up and regularly resets itself mid-drive, so heated seats and steering wheel just turn off just as they’re starting to warm up. Lastly, the lane keeping assist and emergency front collision need to be updated, they can nearly kill you as I’ve experienced to my horror. At a filter traffic lights turning right with nearside to nearside, it did an emergency stop. If anyone had been behind me, they’d have likely pilled into me.

Great review, and I agree with your comments, I have had the MG4 Trophy for 12 months now and it’s a great car to drive, but sadly let down by the abysmal software.

👍👍👍😁.Thanks Jim

Great video

Thanks for the vid, thanks for the review. I think as you say it at the end I owe it to myself to take this one for a drive. They have one of these right next door to where I took my daily yesterday. I think there could be a niche for this car. A family hatchback without the claim to be a full on hot-hatch drivers car, but a hatchback which in those rare five to six second windows when you can it goes from here to over there. I love my car, but it is despite its appearance so full on. I reckon the MG comparatively would be a lot less engaging as a drive, but it would get me from "here to over there" in those six seconds quicker than I can now. Those five or six seconds are so very sadly these days the extent of driving in the UK. Mine I know for a fact I will never drive at the speeds over the distances I did my MG Montego Turbo back in the early 90s, because every car is a plain clothes police car with a cam front and back, where can you find a road without a camera these days? So many glorious roads are now single lane traffic, gone are all those extra lanes filled with hatches, for over taking the three slow cars ahead on the next bend and the amount of vehicles on the roads these days...... Mine would be a dream but I would lose my licence and kill myself because of the volume of traffic within ten miles. Oh and I forgot, we don't have roads these days do we. We have crumbling, cracked, pot-holed cart tracks. Hardly conducive. My daily, she's good through the twisty stuff. Ford Focus ST Mk4 M330. As I said, would be interesting to compare the two.

That's a lot of bang for your buck 👍

Great review as always. Looks incredible for acceleration though not for me as I prefer my intestines in the place god intended. Shame about the Bluetooth playing up but as you say probably just an issue with your press car.

I've owned my XPower for a month now and very happy with the performance, but would like a bit better mileage. My USB C slot does not connect my iPhone 15 to the car, nor does it even power my phone. I'm still waiting on an answer from my dealer. I got what i paid for, a great performance car. Not a Mercedes, BMW, or Porsche...Well beyond my budget. My last two cars were an Audi A3 and a Q3. The Q4 is near double what i paid for this XPower

I agree with everything you mention here. I found inside the back of the MG4 I looked at a year ago very dark & claustrophobic, mainly because there was no rear overhead lighting & no sun roof option. A dark tint to the rear windows doesn't help either. Only two rear head rests as well. The boot is not huge & the original MG4 had no rear wiper which I think the newer models now have. Personally I would bother with the X Power model. Too much power for everyday use & who really needs 3.8sec 0-60 in a car like this? My wife's 64kWh Kona is plenty quick enough for us in std drive mode. I admit it does struggle with front end tyre scrabble in the wet but that's a common problem with many FWD cars. MG need to make a larger version of their MG5 Estate car. Then I might be tempted to replace my full size petrol estate.

Can I program one of the buttons on the steering wheel to change the drive modes. I have a dedicated drive mode button on my Hyundai Ioniq 5 which i can change in an instant with out fiddling via the touch screen.

Hi Excellent review, one thing concerned me wear and tear on the door panel, should this be after such a short time, maybe it might be an early Monday assembly or going home time on a Friday, this has put me off this model, Have you reported to MG of your problems, and what is their reply. Sorry for my comments, Regards welshman 2081

Thank you for the review, i enjoyed watching. Possibly mg could offer upgrade options for the seats that way it will still have the cheapest price if you want it .

Nice review. I test drove a standard Trophy model today. Very nice car to drive, but my word, what c**p the tech is. The satnav was telling me the correct speed limits (mostly) but the driver’s display was mostly showing 30mph in 60 limits. Couldn’t use the screen. Trying to swipe left from the Home Screen to access the rest of the icons, wouldn’t work. The screen kept reverting to the Home Screen. Every time you open a door the bloody thing beeps at you constantly. It’s a real shame, but I can see why it’s cheaper than perhaps an ID3.

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The 'problem' though is two fold, firstly if you brought one of these Brand New, within 12 months it's likely to lose almost if not exactly 50% of it's value. Secondly although the MG cars in general are pretty good, the service network in my experience is awful.

Need some updates, rear arm rest, sunroof

It's good value, a similar ID3 is way more, so you can excuse some deficiencies. I'd be worried this will become a bank robbers car, like the Golf R.

I'd rather have more range than all that power.

MG Cyberster will be 3.1 seconds to 60. The xpower can be improved in the meantime.

Drive that in london and your licence will be gone in less than a day

£48k BYD Seal 3.8s compares on performance

Good video, Jim. Can we invite you to do a review for our product? We have emailed you to inquire about an opportunity

Seems a bit one trick pony . Agree that a better drive would be RWD for the feel through bends as opposed to sling shot straight line .

It's a shame that they can't create better range instead of ludicrous acceleration.

No mention of the terrible vibration that ALL of the Xpowers get? 60mph on he highway its horrific. So much so MG stopped importing them into Australia

Seems rather odd concentrating efforts on it's performance....thought range would have taken presidents ?

Just boring though isnt it? People want to hear some noise with the performance!