MG5 EV 2020: In-depth review with Tom Ford / 4K / Electrifying
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A glut of electric cars are launching at the moment, and most are pretty fancy with futuristic styling, bold colour options and equally out-there names on their bootlids. And then there’s the MG5.
It’s easy to overlook the MG5 but if you do look past it then we reckon you’re missing out. Yes, its styling is pretty unassuming, yes there are electric cars with better ranges and more performance, but that’s not what the MG5 is all about.
See what Tom Ford thinks about the UK's first all-electric estate car in our in-depth review.
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I’ve driven one of these and was very impressed. It’s fast, comfortable and composed on British roads. Feels well screwed together too. Might not have the look and feel of more premium brands but it’s two thirds of the price!
It will be a fantastic 2nd hand buy
@@David-bl1btHave had one for three years now and it’s been very good 👍
Wow, a real car that’s Electric, brilliant, well done MG
Great review! Maybe not the car for me but a lot of car, and battery, for the money. Makes you question cars like ID.3 1st at over £10k more expensive with cheap plastics and similar battery size.
Haven’t seen Tom Ford since the fifth gear days, always liked his style.
Me neither, I actually didn't recognise him without his wooly locks! Where's he been all this time I wonder?
I guess his boss didn't!
He looks so different
@@David-bl1bt me 2
And since fullychargedshow showed up, it replaiced fifth gear and Top Gear easy too...
I liked presenters, just the topic was off.
Like talking about powerfull smelly horses, compared to engined dolly.
@@MartinLV. shame fully charged now has Robert Llewellyn doing to the reviews. He's awful.
MG ZS evs are doing well with not many problems so this will do alright.
The perfect taxi.
Yes!!!!
@Corsham Viton - *taxis.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. Remember all those Skoda octavia estates that were taxis when Skoda was breaking into the U.K. market.? I can see that happening with this !
We will see im test driving soon then if good enough will order
Look at the prius. Perfect car
I for one think they will sell loads !! I would love one ! Ticks all the boxes... Just not so sure about the hammer comparison ;-)
this is the perfect ev!
we have a zs ev and it has been great!
Great car for what it does. Just put some love on the design please and add MG pilot like ZS ev. I’d still want to buy it like this rather than pay more for Kia eniro
blackhound rise agree - they should given it the same front as the other MGs - this just looks beyond bland - more bland than a Hyundai/KIA from 10 years ago.
I was actually trying to look for the MG5 machine gun but this is okay I guess.
😆
Now they have made this, companies like volkswagen need to up their game to match it
Sensible choice indeed. A lot of people choose a car that way, so this EV will do well! Great review Tom, loved the socks joke😆
I enjoyed this review and said to myself, finally an electric vehicle that has a purpose and knows its purpose. Well done MG. I just wish we had as many choices for electric vehicles in Canada (and that we didn't pay a penalty for range during winter months).
I think the time is right, delivery early Jan so time will tell. I wanted a simple roomy car at a reasonable price the MG5 seems to fit the bill....🤞
wait until they have been out a month or two, you can get a ZS Exclusive for £22k if you shop around and I don't doubt the MG5 will attract similar discounts.
Reminds me of a Subaru Outback, has that same understated, subtle charm.
I agree! Isn't showing off, or trying to be "sporty" when it's not. Just does its job well and for a good price.
Drove one today. Footwell a bit cramped as the floorpan a bit high with the battery underneath. If you're tall you can't raise the seat too much either - there would be roof space to sit higher but as the rear view mirror doesn't push up high enough it could badly block your view forward so you have to find the sweet spot for seat height and that's a little bit go-karty (low) especially if you are used to an SUV. Still, I did find a compromise that worked and I'm 6'4".The seats are comfy and supportive and not actually too low when you're getting in, and it drives very nicely to be fair. The speaker quality is absolutely terrible for audio. But for £10k cheaper than an eNiro I guess you can't complain (it'll annoy me tho). Not masses of places to put anything once you've filled the cup holders (no roof cubby for sunnies) but a couple of cheeky slots either side of the transmission (by your knee) to pop your phones - because you won't be looking at them while driving will you! Reversing camera good. Regen a bit weedy. Good value.
Had the MG 5 EV for a few weeks and done 1000 miles and extreme impressed with the performance and how comfortable it is fora long driver even with the family in the car.
If you are thinking about buying one, then don't think about it...
Just go test driver one and I bet you will buy it.
Got my one in Scotland for £20667 brand new!
Complete no brainer
Killing time whilst my wife's MG ZS 1.8 we've had from new was having it's annual MoT test ( it passed ), I wandered along to the close by MG Motor Showroom. Lots of MG EVs there but what caught my eye were two MG5s in the main showroom display area. Had a close look at both.
My own daily driver for the past six years has been an MG ZT-T 1.8T. A very useful workhorse and still a nice place to be and drive as ordinary cars go. Lets face it, most cars are ordinary. We also have and nine year old MG6 1.8 TSE GT in the family fleet. These Chinese MGs are much better "ordinary" cars than for whatever reason, UK car consumers we led to believe they were by some of the Motor Media journos. My hands on experience of three MG6s now shows these are indeed much better means of getting about than some would have us believe when they first appeared.
Based on what I saw and the favourable reports on UA-cam, if and when my old ZT-T needs to be replaced ~ It's an estate ... like the MG5 .. whatever happened to the Estate car? Killed off by the multiplicity of SUV/Crossover lookalikes which now infest UK roads. None of those appeal and never will. The MG5 does.
These Chinese built MGs appear to be selling in my UK neck of the woods and elsewhere in many other parts of the World too. My immediate next door neighbour recently had a charging point fixed on his garage wall. A new shiny MG ZS EV is now parked there. It carries a personal plate which previously was on a Lexus and Mercedes... Think about that. Car consumers like them.
The "Electric" MG5 is the nearest car to an Old School Rover 75 "Tourer" or the MG ZT-T "Estate" to be offered so far to my way of thinking. Suits me Sir ... Double 👍..👍from me ..
Finland needs that car, Octavia Combi and Corolla are our most sold cars
Good video and wondering if you can you navigate to a electric charging point using the MG sat nav or do you have to use your phone as I understand you had to in the older MG electric cars Thanks
Tom is awesome in his delivery 👏
everyone likes to say MG have lost the plot since being run by the Chinese, but what they've made here is just a modernized electric Montego estate-now they just need to create a high-performance 'turbo' model and the circle will be complete!
Its a great affordable EV and drives well, be careful quoting the 7 Year Parts and Labour warrantee, I'd recommend reading the warrantee policy on MG owners site, 7 years covers battery and hole in bodywork due to rust, most things are 36 months or Millage related.
How many miles till you have to change the batteries or motors?
Batteries and motor will outlast the car itself, easily.
This would be a great replacement for our Leaf. I was thinking about the ZS EV but this car maybe isn't the prettiest but tick all the boxes for family of 5 plus + dogs 😃
Why list an electronic handbrake as an 'extra' when i would rather have a real hb?
Do you get a real spare wheel and does it have electric folding mirrors?
Very good review!
PS. I quite like this sensible MG5
Good review. The previous MG EV had adaptive cruise, but I can’t find any info on whether this model has it. For me, if it doesn’t have this feature, it’s a showstopper.
@Wooly Chewbakker my 2 year old £20k Golf does as does the incoming ID3 Life at £26k. It was also in the previous model.
@Wooly Chewbakker I was just giving an example of a few I’m aware of. Toyotas, Kia, Ford, Skoda etc. all have models with adaptive. For me, pre-pandemic, when I had to drive a 500 mile round trip twice a month, it made a big difference. But each to their own.
and when we can expect facelifted MG ZS EV? with LEDs and AC?
mid 2021 apparently
@roadking080161 I was thinking about XXI century AC, you know, where you can set up a fixed 19 Celcius temp and forget about changing it for the next two years
Let's face it - we're all missing the estate/tourer'/wagon car form factor after realising most lifestyle SUV's and crossovers are bulky on the outside and a bit cramped on the inside - rather like an 'inverse TARDIS effect'. Was hoping someone would make an EV estate car. Never expected MG to be the one to do it. Hoping other manufacturers will follow.
tom is 1046 litres in size . who knew ???
the MG5 is replacing the leaf as a low priced car brand.
They have tried to remove the problems the MG ZS ev had. i did notice there was no showing the sat nav working or the start up time
and no mention of the driver aid that the car no longer has
I don't understand why more manufacturers don't have a REAL base model EV available, take out all the tech make one as cheap as possible. why do we need electric windows or sunroofs or tailgates, poeople will buy on the looks and not what you can tell someone it has
James Dean model sales would disagree - they put this stuff in them because that’s what the majority want. When you haven’t got much of a brand presence, price and specification are your two biggest plays. It’s precisely what Hyundai/KIA did and it didn’t harm their market share. I know what you’re getting at though but the sad fact is that the batteries of EVs are so expensive that shaving a bit off here and there specification wise still means you’re paying massively over the odds and probably feeling shortchanged with your base spec £20k supermini EV.
That would be nice for us who do not like all the electronics, and multimedia solutions.
But a basecar would be perfect for smaller buisnisses, and mabye even rentals.
Allso, it will be more interesting for those who is sceptical about electric cars.
If the price is low, they can be more willing to try the car, and perhaps upgrade the standard.
Lada did it, and they where not successfull, but on the otherhand, their cars where 20 years old, by design.
very nice but for an estate no "flat" floor is a no go
Yep I agree 100% and just made the same comment on the Fully Charged video review of this car. It’s not really an estate car/SW my view. I love estate cars and have owned them for decades ...from Audi, VW, Mercedes and Ford...and they all had fold flat rear seats....without that it’s not an estate car.
That puts me off. Try lifting an electric golf trolley and bag over that huge lip.
You're spot on. It's a tool to do a job. But a lot of people used to 27k cars will be used to a 'premium' badge. This is asking a lot of its owner to 'step down'. Private buy, unlikely. Company car, maybe.
Finally an EV which looks like a normal car.
Finally an EV for the normal man
Sadly we don’t have the mg5 here in Holland. Only the zs sub ev
I think it's a Good Thing That there is an ev estate finally, but it Looks so agent
At last. This car ticks almost all boxes for average European driver. Range is adequate at last for the price. Proper control knobs instead of single touch screen. No unnecessary Asian bling in body and interior design. Would only like to have matte surface for navigation/media screen.
VW should look on this to realize about what they forgot in designing their new ID.something.
The running costs are still obscene for this, though - cheapest quote I got on compare the market for one of these was £3,700. Compare that to £440 for a new Kia sportswagon. £3,300 a year is a lot to make up for in car tax, fuel etc.
I've seen this written on a few MG5 videos, I'm mid 30 and I'm getting £225 as my cheapest quote, don't know what you've been doing to get it so high!
@@directresolution 35yo, 10 years+ NCB, no points on my license. Maybe my profession (epidemiologist), location (central Bristol), or the fact it'd be parked on the road outside my house?
@@jongmassey I tried my old London address which would be much worse than Bristol for insurance and on street parking and the price went up but still only to £550. I've only got 5 years NCB as well as I didn't have a car whilst I lived in London. All at comparethemarket
@@jongmassey This is for the old (current) battery size model, the new model which I'm looking at will probably be cheaper because of the auto pilot safety features but the quotes fail on that at the moment as they probably aren't registered with customers yet. So I'm expecting to pay under £200 for the year.
@@directresolution Just re-ran it now and got £405. Must have been some pricing weirdness when it was first released
Shouldn’t be an MG, not sporty enough. Not very practical either, the seats don’t fold flat and there’s a huge load lip. But this video was very nicely done
Oliver Stemp I think that ship sailed sometime ago.
its like people have a very selective memory about what the mg badge appeared on.
I don't mean that MG should only make sports cars and roadsters. I mean that an MG should always be dynamic and sporty, in the same way SEAT is. The MG5 is just a rebadged Roewe, based on the Vauxhall Astra
@@oliverstemp9132 can confirm that the other models even the SUVs have decent handling. Especially the MG3, damn fun down a B road.
@Corsham Viton it doesn't make wrum wrum noises = not "sporty" 😂
Is it just me or does it remind you of a montego estate?
The MG5 is finally on sale in Europe.
Citys the length and breadth of the UK are bracing themselves for entire Taxi fleets of these things - and fair play to MG, I’m sure this is precisely the market they want. Reminds me of when Skoda dominated taxi ranks with their MK1 Octavia.
I've seen this being sold in Exclusive trim, multiple colours for under £23k. How can you argue with that?!
That's it I'm getting one, great for hiking my e-bike around.
Hopefully in future MG makes the car EVEN cheaper by not selling the battery and making it swappable. Battery degradation and upgrades should be borne by the manufacturers themselves. We should only have to rent them cheaply. That method so far only works in China for a particular brand.
renault zoe as a rented battery for years.
@@paulvanderhaegen761 which they stopped as no-one wanted it
I don't get why everything needs to be exciting these days? Why can't a car just be a car? Get in, drive to your destination, put in stuff, go back, unload, go on with your life.
Go on a vacation, have fun when you get there. Car is fine if it works, carries you and your family safely and at reasonable speed, doesn't waste fuel/money (and doesn't pollute :)
If they only saved money on plastic, I'm fine with that.
You didn't mention one word about a very important aspect of any family car - safety. I'd like to see Euro NCAP crash tests for MG5
i also am trading in my zoe for a practical car that doesn't start over 30 000 50 kilowatts you say yes pls
Good humour there. Keep it up. Excellent review too thanks
Did anyone see any info in full on this video on the back seats and room for the kid's The people who will really consider buying this will be families with maybe 2 and 3 children so more information about the rear seats would have been helpful
Why no tow bar MG?! This is the perfect Prius replacement for the taxi fleets I think.
Andy why do Taxis need tow bars?
@@MarthaMansbridge this would be perfect for me, if it can tow
@@MarthaMansbridge To cause more damage during a rear end shunt at a taxi rank?
@@WmAHughes 😂
love the video quality btw
Very good review thank you from Thailand.
Good size, decent range. Decent price. Looks like it's been slapped by its mother.
Great video for a perfectly average motor
If this had 100 kW DC charging, it would be road trip capable. Now, I don't really think it is; you'd drive for two hours and then you wait for almost an hour... Nearly 50% downtime. No thanks.
Other than that, it sounds like a very good deal.
I thunk this will be popular in UK cities like London where massive range isnt an issue
massive range isnt an issue for 80% of people
Top gear did a piece on people buying Chinese cars years ago with Clarkson and May, seems they were ahead of the game.
This car is cheap , and if there's one thing the British like, it's cheapness so I guess in a few years they will be common as muck.
Put on nice wheels and tinted windows it would look quite nice.
Hope to get one in few years time saving up
We need the MG5 in Australia
Great car, great price, would buy if available
A great car we'll never get in the states.
Where have you gone, Tom?
Nice car if we needed an estate again iWe would buy on pitty no mg pilot that cheaper es has .
That looks like it was designed in 1985
.......and the cost of a replacement battery is?
Why would you need to replace the batteries? The battery is covered under a 75% capacity, 7year warranty.
How much is a replacement engine for an ICE car?
Man I missed you on the tube.
Boring, but the only practical and reasonably priced EV in Europe! (Even if imported from China) I think they'll sell loads.
Looks like a VW from the front and then a mix of other brands from every other angle (Jag XF chrome strip on the back?), but all out of proportion. Why the Chinese paid for the MG brand I'll never know because anyone with respect for what the UK brand used to stand for will no doubt be offended to see the logo on what is being shipped over now.
This is a quick stopgap to capitalise on taxi sales until the actual new MG5 launches next year. That car looks really sporty. This is just a rebadged 4 year old Roewe
Excellent 👍⚡️⚡️⚡️
China kicking some serious ass! I would love one of these!
Saw one in the flesh...thought at first it was a Passat
front = VW Passat, rear = Toyota // Will they sell this car in central Europe?
It looks like a restyling of a Renault from thirty years ago. No matter how cheap a car may be, even an apprentice designer knows how to make a design more ... as I would say ... current.
@@rayjennings3637 If the sales match your explanation I will give you the reason. But if it's a failure ... I'll be back.
People thinking because it's called MG its British but its actually owned by a Chinese company.
It looks like a ten years old design.
Because it is.. Well, more like 5 years.. MG5 saloon just got facelift announced literally days before the release of this car, and it's a lot better too! i hope MG bring the new design to the estate ev soon after
So it has good visibility
Isn’t that what Kia was of old. Not done them any harm.
reminds me of a Passat/Astra/Megane
Expect no more than 168 on the extra urban in real world folks
I’m looking forward to an EV specific design from MG rather than this compromised one.
More compact/space efficiency, RWD and accurate lane keeping wound be the ants-pants for us.
Just me or does this look like the carwow test track
VW called, they want their early noughties Passat back
ha ha ...exactly what I thought 😁👍
Looks like a ten or fifteen year old car in good nick, rather than a new car, doesn’t it?
The top of the grille might slightly look like modern Passats, but have you seen how many other modern cars look like each other? And you compare this to an early noughties Passat? I Think you guys need to get your eyes checked.
Yes it is very VW looking, especially at the front
I think MG have picked up the slack VW left. I mean I think VW has dropped the ball on the ID3... It looks cheap and tacky inside, with touch sensitive buttons that would be a nightmare. They charge so much for it still though, and claim it'll be the "New beetle"... I think MG have the chance to be the new affordable mass market EVs.
Personally I like the more traditional estate look, reminds me of early noughties cars in a good way. I love noughties cars 🤣
i do like the mg5 but its electric only no good for me i live in a terraced house no driveway to pt it on need a long cable. the chinese had this in petrol version first so why didnt we have that option id of bought one even if self charging hybrid like the kia nero. nice looking car alround would easly replace the ford cortina estate used for shopping trips to the tip and transporting my uncles disco equipment around like back in the day.
Its very.. Volkswagen meets Lada but at least the tech is good.
Deeply dull design but probably makes sense for many
@Corsham Viton yeah, car purpose for me is only to make possible travelingfrom a to b and nothing else. This is almost perfect car for me. Almost is, no towing 😪
It’d make a great taxi or second car for the skool run...
What about crash safety?
Just google it
dot done, no results, next...
Range??
214miles
There are videos on UA-cam of a 2021 MG5 that looks way better than this aged thing. Why is this one so frumpy?
it comes from CHI NA
crazy
as does everything else you buy
Can't wait for you to review the new Dacia 2021, massive improvements were made!!
can't wait for the hybrid + plug-in version maybe 2021
@@paulvanderhaegen761 it won't be a plug-in hybrid, they will use Renault zoe platform and going straight for electric.
@@claudiuberta5688 even better
@@paulvanderhaegen761 like I've mentioned, on Renault Zoe platform or the actual Renault K-ze which is already on sale in China for 11.000$.
www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2019/09/12/renault-k-ze-electric-crossover-cheap-china/amp/
nice...using the old Passat from VW as body...MG is almost a VW
No Muzak nice, comedy bad, car looks good, see a lot of MGs about nicely made ,
The final insult to MG!!!! SUVs represent everything that is wrong with modern cars where every parameter is moved backwards like centre of gravity, wind resistance, weight, energy consumption, reduced crumple zones due to vehicle height instead of length!!! Newton showed the physics 300 years ago. Just bother to read his principia! Sports coupé? YES!!! That IS MG!!!! Whatever they say in China!!! At least call it a Morris! Otherwise I´m all for EVs!
you mean the MG the english ran into the ground - at least the chinese have bought and resurected it
The week Mathew I'm going to be you, I've got the voice and mannerisms down to a T.
I know being stupid is quite fassionable these days but sensible can be good.
I would like to buy 3 years old for 15k
Looks like dacia...
I wouldn't call a six minute video a "in-depth" review. Could you find some real roads for your tests? Getting a bit sick of seeing this same old test track now.
It is sexier than most today ugly looking cars we see on the road (most of the Citroen lineup, most Toyota, BMW... are all ugly looking).
Look like a Passat...
What a bucket.