tonybridge
Established Member
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2023
- Messages
- 196
- Reaction score
- 233
- Points
- 83
- Location
- Berkshire
- Driving
- MG4 Trophy LR
1 week old and 300 miles - some initial thoughts:
GREAT
1 The lovely ‘Whoosh’ as the car accelerates! And instant torque, wow...
2 The looks: The front 100/100 The sides 95/100 The rear: 90/100 but love the red streaky lights on the rear spoiler! (just s a shame that you can't actually see them when they come on)
3 The quietness in the cabin: 4 of us had a conversation without raising our voices
4 The tight turning circle makes cornering very precise and the handling is excellent
5 Although I still look at petrol prices in the forecourts, it's just a habit which I'm fast growing out of (it's being replaced by a great smugness!)
6 There are lots more GREAT things about the MG4...
MEH
1 Steering wheel – I can’t make up my mind about it. Reminds me of the Maestro! Never quite sure where to hold it
2 The radio volume dims when in Reverse huh?! EDIT: so that you can hear the ‘proximity pings’ DOH!
3 Sometimes, the Radio volume randomly fluctuates up and down – not been able to pin down why or when, is there a setting for Dynamic Volume that I’ve missed?
4 The Sat Nav display is too tiny, but it functions well enough
5 What use are the side views when indicating, which appear and disappear seemingly at random?
6 Your phone needs to be plugged in to use Carplay
7 Although I love the side view of the car, there is a crease just below the C-pillar that looks fine when looking at it side-on, but when I approach the car from the rear, it always looks for a moment like a huge dent!
8 Wheel rumble – is it the new 18’’ wheels?
9 The greeting message often tells me that it is 2019 lol – I’ve switched it off now…
10 The A/C makes up its own mind about outside temperatures, seems to be out by 4 or 5 degrees?
‘ORRID
1 The new rear-wiperette just clears … the area of rear screen covered by the new 3rd headrest
2 The supplied Granny Charger’s cable is 2 metres long, completely useless! I bought an 8-metre on Amazon, which has been great, and will use this on my new Un-tethered Ohme charger from Octopus.
3 The error messages on the Driver’s screen are displayed for just a second - so you hear the beep, concentrate on whatever the incident is, then look down at the error message and it’s gone.
LKA
Doesn’t bother me in the slightest… I’ve never changed the setting, I think the default is Normal, or Medium, sorry just haven’t really looked at it, because it occasionally gives a slight twitch, and no more than that. Certainly not in any way dangerous. The only problem with it is that it is so random – on the same stretch of road, it can twitch one day, but not the next. When it's safe to do so, with no other car around, I deliberately drive over the centre-road markings and the car sometimes reacts, but usually just ignores the markings. EDIT - just discovered that it kicks in at 37mph, this must be the reason for this behaviour.
So, LKA is annoying because it doesn’t work when you expect it to, but when it does, it’s really no problem at all.
GREAT
1 The lovely ‘Whoosh’ as the car accelerates! And instant torque, wow...
2 The looks: The front 100/100 The sides 95/100 The rear: 90/100 but love the red streaky lights on the rear spoiler! (just s a shame that you can't actually see them when they come on)
3 The quietness in the cabin: 4 of us had a conversation without raising our voices
4 The tight turning circle makes cornering very precise and the handling is excellent
5 Although I still look at petrol prices in the forecourts, it's just a habit which I'm fast growing out of (it's being replaced by a great smugness!)
6 There are lots more GREAT things about the MG4...
MEH
1 Steering wheel – I can’t make up my mind about it. Reminds me of the Maestro! Never quite sure where to hold it
2 The radio volume dims when in Reverse huh?! EDIT: so that you can hear the ‘proximity pings’ DOH!
3 Sometimes, the Radio volume randomly fluctuates up and down – not been able to pin down why or when, is there a setting for Dynamic Volume that I’ve missed?
4 The Sat Nav display is too tiny, but it functions well enough
5 What use are the side views when indicating, which appear and disappear seemingly at random?
6 Your phone needs to be plugged in to use Carplay
7 Although I love the side view of the car, there is a crease just below the C-pillar that looks fine when looking at it side-on, but when I approach the car from the rear, it always looks for a moment like a huge dent!
8 Wheel rumble – is it the new 18’’ wheels?
9 The greeting message often tells me that it is 2019 lol – I’ve switched it off now…
10 The A/C makes up its own mind about outside temperatures, seems to be out by 4 or 5 degrees?
‘ORRID
1 The new rear-wiperette just clears … the area of rear screen covered by the new 3rd headrest
2 The supplied Granny Charger’s cable is 2 metres long, completely useless! I bought an 8-metre on Amazon, which has been great, and will use this on my new Un-tethered Ohme charger from Octopus.
3 The error messages on the Driver’s screen are displayed for just a second - so you hear the beep, concentrate on whatever the incident is, then look down at the error message and it’s gone.
LKA
Doesn’t bother me in the slightest… I’ve never changed the setting, I think the default is Normal, or Medium, sorry just haven’t really looked at it, because it occasionally gives a slight twitch, and no more than that. Certainly not in any way dangerous. The only problem with it is that it is so random – on the same stretch of road, it can twitch one day, but not the next. When it's safe to do so, with no other car around, I deliberately drive over the centre-road markings and the car sometimes reacts, but usually just ignores the markings. EDIT - just discovered that it kicks in at 37mph, this must be the reason for this behaviour.
So, LKA is annoying because it doesn’t work when you expect it to, but when it does, it’s really no problem at all.
