Finally got our car last week! Well, I say our car - it was surely someone else's (cancelation) because we swapped to red from blue, but it's our car now!
Don't see the point in posting a picture - it basically the same as everyone else's! Well, it was - I've already collaborated with the wall of our house to add my own unique little design on the back corner...?! I do like that the "SE" in Europe has roof bars, though - A useful feature missing in the UK. I know others like the sun roof, but the idea of driving a mobile greenhouse in Portugal does not appeal. However, the windows aren't tinted, as I'd expected (or at least, not tinted much) so I plan to sort that. It's 33C outside today..... ??
The other thing I like - no price uplift from that originally quoted - The original price was bizarrely slightly higher than MG's stated price, but after over 1 year waiting it was basically around a £2K discount on today's prices.
Also, we were able to drive from Porto to Lisbon area without stopping - well, we did, but to go to the toilet, not to charge! I used the MG pilot feature on the motorway, when regen isn't an issue anyway, and it was 250KM of me basically just supervising the car. I know it's not the same as other brands, but I'm happy with it.
No rapid charge issues. Did have an issue with a slow charger not giving us the cable back - but that is nothing to do with car and a quick phone call (Sunday evening, so top marks to the charge point operator (edp) there) and it was released and we got the lecky for free.
Not needed the 10m spanner yet....
It seems the dealer had adjusted all the most annoying features - so the navigation worked and it was only set to lane keep pestering bing bongs, which I've further reduced.
Oh - another weird thing - I thought I'd got an issue with no channels on DAB, but that's because there aren't any DAB channels in Portugal! They apparently trialed it for around a decade with a few channels and then didn't bother carrying on! Hey ho!
So, early days, but all good so far.
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