MG pickup, anyone? ??

[salty]

Anyone fancy an MG pickup? ??

 

[Rolfe]

That's an ICE, right? Off-topic!

 

[Archev]

Anyone fancy an MG pick up. ??

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Yes I enjoyed driving my son’s pickup in California for the last couple of months. It’s a Ram Rebel 5.7 litre V8 automatic with fairly aggressive off road tyres, sand ladders and spare gas / petrol cans. It came in extremely useful ?‍ for Granddaughter and I to visit the zoo, wild animal park, sea world, LA museums, mount Laguna observatories etc, etc. Every evening, on the way home we stopped and filled the tank - again ?!
Then son and I drove his boss’s Ram diesel dual rear wheel truck 3300 miles to Sturgis, South Dakota to deliver a pair of Harley Davidson motorcycles to the massive HD rally there. That used a wee drop of diesel but we had the boss’s credit card - thank goodness ?
An MG pickup could be fun - if it was electric ?

 

[dsimpkins]

That's an ICE, right? Off-topic!

SAIC motors do make an electric pickup, but that one's been pimped right up!

 

[dsimpkins]

In the UK now apparently, badged as a Maxus truck
T90EV | MAXUS Electric Vehicles and Vans

 

[Caramaddy]

Yes, a neighbour has one. It is surprisingly noisy.

 

[Rolfe]

I thought it looked like a Maxus (which they were practically giving away on lease a few months ago - Modern Heroes got one and gave it a pretty scathing review), but isn't that an exhaust pipe under there?

 

[Archev]

In the UK now apparently, badged as a Maxus truck
T90EV | MAXUS Electric Vehicles and Vans

And Maxus was LDV - Leyland Daf Vans. Before that Austin - strange histories.

 

[salty]

That's an ICE, right? Off-topic!

Not sure, but as said it does look like a Maxus, which is an EV. It's badged MG though. Thought it might be of interest.
Think it looks good. ??

 

[Rolfe]

Enjoy.

 

[Archev]

Enjoy.

Looked OK to me - it is basically a load carrying/ towing vehicle. A bit short on range sadly.

 

[Rolfe]

He was quite scathing about it on Twitter, for various faults including range and I think only being single motor. It's a while since I watched the video though. They were leasing them at some really silly price like £90 a month, which is why he got one.

 

[T1 Terry]

Looks like a great idea with very poor design thrown in. A front and rear motor, rear motor mounted to the chassis to improve the unsprung weight issues and the "tailly" feel an unloaded ute has ..... add a decent battery capacity to match the weight .... might need the Aussie touch, didn't we make the "ute" in the first place

T1 Terry