120K for a Chinese made roadster with no history, motorsport history and a shocking rep for reliability and after sales service. You are dreaming. No physical buttons for HVAC. 60K tops. Big Nup from me.
Great initial insights Ponch and will sell to fans of EVs as first convertible of its kind and I think the design is subjective but glad it’s not too retro.
Good balanced review. There are lots of reviews for owners overseas. Most rave about the car. It does not suit people over 2 metres tall though as the top of the windscreen is at eye level.
I like it, and I think a lot of others will too, but I think they focussed on the wrong things. It has nothing in common with a traditional British roadster, and the badge has become a farcical and cinical nod to the original company. Yes it's a great car. But it seems like it was built by computer nerds as much as engineers. Any twin motor electric car will shock you with acceleration, but does anyone remember MG for its blistering speed? No. They were loved because they were fun to drive. SAIC (who own MG now), had their own vision of what a new MG roadster should be, and didn't let history or the hugely successful examples of the MX5 and Boxster 'cloud' their judgement. I know that no one is asking for my opinion, but maybe they could have started down this road by making a car that had normal and more practical (and cheaper) doors instead of trying to wow everyone with showy scissor doors. Maybe it should have had non-touch screens in front of the steering wheel, or just one sem -circular screen that was clearly visible through the wheel. This is a GT car, for sure, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it won't draw people away from Z4s, Boxsters or Miatas. They could have saved themselves some money, at least to start with, by building a stripped-down version of the Cyberster. Simple doors, simple instruments, a real focus in the developmental stage on handling and steering, and just maybe they could have pioneered a type of semi-automatic where you have a centre shifter (not paddles), but without a clutch pedal - something unique to the marque. There are too many distracting gizmos for it to ever be a real driver's car. At this early stage, it seems it was designed to create a sensation in the media. Early sales may be huge, if the pricepoint is right, but a lot of buyers might find out the hard way that, beyond straight line acceleration and looks, it's just a whole bunch of computer modules on wheels.
It's actually not that horrible. The Lexus LC500 is 2035kg. Jaguar F-Type is about 1800kg. Mustang GT convertible is 1881kg. The MG is faster than all of the above, not that it means anything...
@@converdis449 Of course, the MX-5 is an excellent car and I used to own a NB turbo. However, the Cyberster, Lexus LC, Jaguar F-Type, Mustang GT etc are more 'grand tourers' and not really sports cars. Hell, even the Porsche 911 Turbo is now more than 1700kg! The fact is, all cars including performance cars are getting porkier year by year. Cyberster is not that much heavier than other high performance convertible/coupes shows modern EVs don't have that much of a weight penalty compared to ICE equivalents.
Nothing against EV, but the reality is, who cares about the listed RRP. Like many EV on the market right now, give it 12mths and it will drop by 15%-20% on brand new asking price. While 40% deprecation in 2nd hand market. 18-24 months and fall another 5-10% on the brand new asking price.
@dallasdrew2390 @dallasdrew2390 Name an ICE brand that dropped their asking retail price by 20% within 12mths and up to 40% of depression in the 2nd hand market within the same period. I can name a few EVs, Tesla, LDV, and MG. Those who know their vehicle market would know it is unique to EV at the moment, over supply, under demand, basic economic. No point denying it.
@@dallasdrew2390 🤣 Obviously you need to improve your Googling skills, you can only come up with one aspect of the entire point, which is depression. As I said, anyone knows about the vehicle market don't need to Google to know the most basic fundamentals of deprecation asset. 🙄 If you look at the brand new retail price of a RAV4, it went up over the last 12mths. Well done, and good luck with your life. Keep on Googling, you can do it one day. 😆
@@dallasdrew2390 Knowing how to do a basic Google search is one thing, but finding the relevant content and understanding the subject? That’s a whole different ballgame. So let me use some layman's terms by using the RAV4 and publicly obtainable figures from well-known sources like Carsales, Carsguide and Redbook. In Australia, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid's price rose from $34,900 in 2022 to $39,760 in 2024 (a 13.92% increase), while the Tesla Model Y's price dropped from $72,300 to $55,900 over the same period (a 22.68% decrease). If both were bought new in 2022, the RAV4 Hybrid would have depreciated by $7,654.97 (21.94%), compared to the Model Y's whopping $31,930.57 (44.17%). So who in their right would buy an EV that not only drops in retail value significantly but continues to depreciate even faster? Alright, basic maths and economics classes are over.
At $60K maybe. But +$120k for a Chinese made car with no heritage, dubious quality and poor resale, not a hope. Also he forgot about the MG F roadsters of the 1990s.
Agree maybe wait 12 months and it will be around $60,000 . Charging speed, and approx 400km per ‘tank full’ isn’t impressive. It will sell to the image conscious ‘look at me’ crowd.
Chinese car quality has actually increased substantially in recent years and I dare say match some of the less reliable Japanese brands. Agree with you on heritage and resale value though, 120k is way too much for a brand that hasn’t gained the public’s trust although it’s probably just a matter of time if they keep making decent cars.
I totally agree with poor Chinese quality! Like the electronic device of nowadays, they are all made in China so a new version has to come out every year!😉 Back in the days a good home phone can last for years, decades even!😂 Yeah we should totally return to the good old days when all the crap quality stuff were made in Japan!🤭 Oh oh, better even, return to the time when German quality were so poor we Brits have to make a new law that all German imports must have “Made in Germany” labels so people can avoid them!🤣
It is for the time being the only electric roadster (other than the orignal Tesla prototypes) , it is in a class all its own. That would be the reason you would buy one.
In hindsight one of the made in Australian MGBs driven by the late Majesty the Queen and then-Prince Charles with Diana. Times changed unbeknownst to the Queen when UK MG goes into hiatus so-called SAIC acquired yet colonized to restart MG Motors until the day Longbridge has closed no more made in UK MGs permanently continued with cheap made in China MGs. Reap what you sow King Charles rather push an MG Cyberster or an ironic MG4 than drove his first MGC.
That name is just terrible, could have gone with MG-E at least. Not convinced by quality/reliability long term either. I wonder how those doors will fare.....
Dept of Energy and Climate: 6 EVs caught fire in Australia between 2010 and September 2023. 3 where a house fire spread to the car (not caused by the car), 1 Arson leaving just 2 and they were both due to high speed impacts damaging the battery. Worldwide, the likelihood of an EV fire is around 20 times less than a petrol/diesel vehicle fire. Facts.
@PulsarProductions1 stop it with facts. It's more fun reading about people here raging about EV. Being EV and made in China have really got some here in a fit.
Wish these motoring journos would stop relating back to the real British brand MG of old. This is new chinese junk leaning heavily on our memories to sell cars to people who have no idea that China bought the MG brand.
Dept of Energy and Climate: 6 EVs caught fire in Australia between 2010 and September 2023. 3 where a house fire spread to the car (not caused by the car), 1 Arson leaving just 2 and they were both due to high speed impacts damaging the battery. Worldwide, the likelihood of an EV fire is around 20 times less than a petrol/diesel vehicle fire. Facts.
Awesome. Picking mine up early in January!
老哥觉得这车咋样
Looks like a Maserati Gt.
Those rear lights though.....shocking 😷
Those arrow lights on the back kinda make the car look less expensive & attractive IMO..
Duplo styling from the Chinese. Lame.
What about the decibels in car on soft or hard surfaces. Is there a reversing camera or 360 one?
Those tail lights are truly awful. MX-5 at half the price seems the way to go.
MX5 you have to manually open or close the roof and it does not do 3.2 seconds zero to 100. Big difference you’re not comparing like with like
Correct answer. This is a hairdresser's car.
Omg... those arrows 😂😂. The rest looks great, though.
It's a beautiful car
Have you seen the back Arrows. Like a Duplo car. Chinese (lack of) taste.
Looks Cool. Beautiful design. Thanks Nathan.
120K for a Chinese made roadster with no history, motorsport history and a shocking rep for reliability and after sales service. You are dreaming. No physical buttons for HVAC. 60K tops. Big Nup from me.
😂
Great initial insights Ponch and will sell to fans of EVs as first convertible of its kind and I think the design is subjective but glad it’s not too retro.
Good balanced review. There are lots of reviews for owners overseas. Most rave about the car. It does not suit people over 2 metres tall though as the top of the windscreen is at eye level.
without looking at the brand I like the car - EXCEPT back
The back is wack.
I like it, and I think a lot of others will too, but I think they focussed on the wrong things. It has nothing in common with a traditional British roadster, and the badge has become a farcical and cinical nod to the original company. Yes it's a great car. But it seems like it was built by computer nerds as much as engineers. Any twin motor electric car will shock you with acceleration, but does anyone remember MG for its blistering speed? No. They were loved because they were fun to drive.
SAIC (who own MG now), had their own vision of what a new MG roadster should be, and didn't let history or the hugely successful examples of the MX5 and Boxster 'cloud' their judgement. I know that no one is asking for my opinion, but maybe they could have started down this road by making a car that had normal and more practical (and cheaper) doors instead of trying to wow everyone with showy scissor doors. Maybe it should have had non-touch screens in front of the steering wheel, or just one sem -circular screen that was clearly visible through the wheel.
This is a GT car, for sure, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it won't draw people away from Z4s, Boxsters or Miatas.
They could have saved themselves some money, at least to start with, by building a stripped-down version of the Cyberster. Simple doors, simple instruments, a real focus in the developmental stage on handling and steering, and just maybe they could have pioneered a type of semi-automatic where you have a centre shifter (not paddles), but without a clutch pedal - something unique to the marque.
There are too many distracting gizmos for it to ever be a real driver's car. At this early stage, it seems it was designed to create a sensation in the media. Early sales may be huge, if the pricepoint is right, but a lot of buyers might find out the hard way that, beyond straight line acceleration and looks, it's just a whole bunch of computer modules on wheels.
It is perfectly cool !
Nice
TWO THOUSAND KILOGRAMS????
Batteries aren't light....
It's actually not that horrible. The Lexus LC500 is 2035kg. Jaguar F-Type is about 1800kg. Mustang GT convertible is 1881kg.
The MG is faster than all of the above, not that it means anything...
MX5 weighs half…… light weight sports car is more for me
@@converdis449 Of course, the MX-5 is an excellent car and I used to own a NB turbo. However, the Cyberster, Lexus LC, Jaguar F-Type, Mustang GT etc are more 'grand tourers' and not really sports cars. Hell, even the Porsche 911 Turbo is now more than 1700kg! The fact is, all cars including performance cars are getting porkier year by year. Cyberster is not that much heavier than other high performance convertible/coupes shows modern EVs don't have that much of a weight penalty compared to ICE equivalents.
Cool story @@converdis449
Funny that Budget is sponsering you guys considering they are so averse to insuring EVs.
Exactly, I can’t even get a quote from them to buy this car
Should be called the MG Battery
looks great! out of my poor budget and thats heavy for the roadster.
Nothing against EV, but the reality is, who cares about the listed RRP. Like many EV on the market right now, give it 12mths and it will drop by 15%-20% on brand new asking price. While 40% deprecation in 2nd hand market. 18-24 months and fall another 5-10% on the brand new asking price.
No different to an ICE car.
@dallasdrew2390 @dallasdrew2390 Name an ICE brand that dropped their asking retail price by 20% within 12mths and up to 40% of depression in the 2nd hand market within the same period. I can name a few EVs, Tesla, LDV, and MG. Those who know their vehicle market would know it is unique to EV at the moment, over supply, under demand, basic economic. No point denying it.
@@kl9794 Toyota RAV4 depreciation rate is 33% for the first year! You don't have to ask me that 5 seconds on Google would have told you that!!
@@dallasdrew2390 🤣 Obviously you need to improve your Googling skills, you can only come up with one aspect of the entire point, which is depression. As I said, anyone knows about the vehicle market don't need to Google to know the most basic fundamentals of deprecation asset. 🙄 If you look at the brand new retail price of a RAV4, it went up over the last 12mths. Well done, and good luck with your life. Keep on Googling, you can do it one day. 😆
@@dallasdrew2390 Knowing how to do a basic Google search is one thing, but finding the relevant content and understanding the subject? That’s a whole different ballgame. So let me use some layman's terms by using the RAV4 and publicly obtainable figures from well-known sources like Carsales, Carsguide and Redbook. In Australia, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid's price rose from $34,900 in 2022 to $39,760 in 2024 (a 13.92% increase), while the Tesla Model Y's price dropped from $72,300 to $55,900 over the same period (a 22.68% decrease). If both were bought new in 2022, the RAV4 Hybrid would have depreciated by $7,654.97 (21.94%), compared to the Model Y's whopping $31,930.57 (44.17%). So who in their right would buy an EV that not only drops in retail value significantly but continues to depreciate even faster? Alright, basic maths and economics classes are over.
At $60K maybe. But +$120k for a Chinese made car with no heritage, dubious quality and poor resale, not a hope.
Also he forgot about the MG F roadsters of the 1990s.
He mentioned the TF which was an updated version of the F
Agree maybe wait 12 months and it will be around $60,000 . Charging speed, and approx 400km per ‘tank full’ isn’t impressive. It will sell to the image conscious ‘look at me’ crowd.
@@converdis449 Hairdresser car. With knee-buckling depreciation.
Chinese car quality has actually increased substantially in recent years and I dare say match some of the less reliable Japanese brands. Agree with you on heritage and resale value though, 120k is way too much for a brand that hasn’t gained the public’s trust although it’s probably just a matter of time if they keep making decent cars.
I totally agree with poor Chinese quality! Like the electronic device of nowadays, they are all made in China so a new version has to come out every year!😉 Back in the days a good home phone can last for years, decades even!😂 Yeah we should totally return to the good old days when all the crap quality stuff were made in Japan!🤭 Oh oh, better even, return to the time when German quality were so poor we Brits have to make a new law that all German imports must have “Made in Germany” labels so people can avoid them!🤣
Nobody remembers MG glory days,even people that were just born then are in the retirement homes now.
At this price range, for a roadster, there is no reason to choose a Chinesium electric car that weights 2 tons over a Toyota Supra or a BMW Z4.
get a Miata and invest the rest
Or a Miata. Turbo conversion if you need more poke.
It is for the time being the only electric roadster (other than the orignal Tesla prototypes) , it is in a class all its own. That would be the reason you would buy one.
@@narvuntien It's a niche market, and this is hardly an excuse to venture into it.
😂
At that price, they’re joking.
You can buy a model 3 dual motor and an mx-5, plus a lifetime of petrol and insurance for less.
Nice machine… price means that they will only sell a handful
My back hurts thinking about getting in and out of that car, doors look cool but totally impractical
This has absolutely nothing to do with the real MGs.
Nope!
am vibing dodgy quality...
RTFM brother, RTFM.
Since 1924 to 2005 MG stood for her Majesty Garages til 2016 Longbridge was history then SAIC MG resumed as his Majesty Garages.
MG stands for Morris Garages.
In hindsight one of the made in Australian MGBs driven by the late Majesty the Queen and then-Prince Charles with Diana. Times changed unbeknownst to the Queen when UK MG goes into hiatus so-called SAIC acquired yet colonized to restart MG Motors until the day Longbridge has closed no more made in UK MGs permanently continued with cheap made in China MGs. Reap what you sow King Charles rather push an MG Cyberster or an ironic MG4 than drove his first MGC.
That name is just terrible, could have gone with MG-E at least. Not convinced by quality/reliability long term either. I wonder how those doors will fare.....
Electric vehicles don't burn?... but they do catch on fire 🔥 plenty 😉
Dept of Energy and Climate: 6 EVs caught fire in Australia between 2010 and September 2023. 3 where a house fire spread to the car (not caused by the car), 1 Arson leaving just 2 and they were both due to high speed impacts damaging the battery. Worldwide, the likelihood of an EV fire is around 20 times less than a petrol/diesel vehicle fire. Facts.
@PulsarProductions1 stop it with facts. It's more fun reading about people here raging about EV. Being EV and made in China have really got some here in a fit.
have min 3 month in phuket yes its super car 70 000 pound cash its pip pip when drive can not take all info old car heat oil pressure gas tank
Wish these motoring journos would stop relating back to the real British brand MG of old. This is new chinese junk leaning heavily on our memories to sell cars to people who have no idea that China bought the MG brand.
😂😂😂😂
This is far too expensive and definitely won't sell buy an mg4 xpower and save 60000
Or steer clear of autocratic dictatorships altogether and don't by Chinese crap.
What car can we buy without something in it from China?@@Thisonegoestoeleven666
expensive rubbish
Chinese junk , I can see the depreciation before it leaves the showroom… I wouldn’t buy one at half the price…🥴🤢🤮
"electric vehicles don't burn"? Are you serious? Thanks for reviewing this car so we don't have to buy it.
Dept of Energy and Climate: 6 EVs caught fire in Australia between 2010 and September 2023. 3 where a house fire spread to the car (not caused by the car), 1 Arson leaving just 2 and they were both due to high speed impacts damaging the battery. Worldwide, the likelihood of an EV fire is around 20 times less than a petrol/diesel vehicle fire. Facts.
@@PulsarProductions1shhh don't burst his bubble with facts