What is the age profile of MG4 owner drivers?

[Ian Key]

Interesting that the age range 41-50 is winning the poll spectacularly. Clearly the MG4 provides the wheels for a midlife crisis

And 61-70 is second as we are spending our pension pot....and re-living our misspent youth only this time the car will actually go fast without revving the ? out of it ?

 

[tsedge]

Am curious about how old owner drivers of the MG4 are. Its sporty looks and speed should appeal to boy/girl racers but I get a feeling that many forum contributors are in their 60s. Do vote. Thank you

Young people can no longer get or afford the insurance.

I'm on my third mid life crisis. (I started early)

I never stopped after starting mine in my early thirties.

 

[JonnyG]

Young people can no longer get or afford the insurance.

Agreed and many probably don't live somewhere with a private drive or exclusive home charger available yet, which may put them off EV's ?

 

[Deleted member 11291]

And 61-70 is second as we are spending our pension pot....and re-living our misspent youth only this time the car will actually go fast without revving the ? out of it ?

No, just having my fourth mid life crisis, according to my wife!

 

[Montego]

I didn't chose it for sporty looks etc. It was value for money and range as I'm a pensioner!

 

[Grriff]

Young people can no longer get or afford the insurance.

I suspect many young people can't afford the additional cost of an EV.

 

[siteguru]

I suspect many young people can't afford the additional cost of an EV.

It's all about the monthly costs (lease/PCP) ... not many people actually "buy" a car these days. Monthlies on EVs can be quite competitive.

 

[Grriff]

It's all about the monthly costs (lease/PCP) ... not many people actually "buy" a car these days. Monthlies on EVs can be quite competitive.

Many young people can barely afford their rent let alone a new car.

 

[Martinonline]

I agree with the points made above but I think you need to know the age profile of those registered on the forum to work out a proper distribution. Currently you are assuming equal numbers in each age cohort.

 

[tonybridge]

At 65 Im still a boy racer at heart! Have always liked cars with sporty looks etc. Although had some not so sporty ones as well, a rust bucket of a Renault 9 back in the 1980’s comes to mind!

Boy Racers never get old... or should I say, you're never too old to be a Boy (or Girl!) Racer? I'm 78, and still love driving.

 

[stevegus]

Mine was a Triumph Herald 12/50 in Florentine Blue. No heated rear window, no radio, no inertia reel three point seatbelts, no air bags but it did have wing (not door) mirrors as an added extra.

If you had the headlights and heater on together with the after-market heated rear window that I fitted, when you stopped at the traffic lights so did the engine. The dynamo ran out of umph at low revs.

Would I have one now....NO!! I like my creature comforts too much ?

I had the exact same model but red

 

[Vingnut]

I didn't chose it for sporty looks etc either. It was value for money, range and the 500kg towbar. No lease as I bought it to kerp long term is a plus too.
Can't complain about the insurance cost either.

P.S. as a hardcore boyracer (who actually drove fast as in very fast by Norwegian standards), I would say that the way the four drives is not bad at all and the way it goes is spoiling me rotten. I just had a trip in my old 2,0d Toyota Auris, and forgot to keep it over 1200 revs up the little climb to the main road from my house. Let me just say it did not respond the way I anticipated when stepping on the throttle as it did the climb slow and steady in second gear at 900-1000 rpm. ?

 

[ozzz]

I am on a never ending mid life crisis BMW X3 , Porche Boxster, learn to Fly now retired 69 VW Kombi 1972 and MG 4 , and do walking football can’t wait for 70 as I can change as in move to the older group got to be faster @ walking than 80 year old players .

 

[allplayandnowork]

Just ordered my lad (19) one on a Company car/salary sacrifice scheme that includes insurance and maintenance.... it works out cheaper than buying him a 6 year old ice and trying to find insurance so he can bring the overall average down a bit.

 

[ozzz]

That’s awesome, safe driving .

 

[Vingnut]

Just ordered my lad (19) one on a Company car/salary sacrifice scheme that includes insurance and maintenance.... it works out cheaper than buying him a 6 year old ice and trying to find insurance so he can bring the overall average down a bit.

Just be aware that that thing make most ICE look real slow, most ICE give seconds to react after putting your foot down. A MG4 is just go (it's like a snake), very very easy for an inexperienced driver to step on it and go off or in to stuff because it all happens very fast if not careful.
That said, lucky lad.?

 

[allplayandnowork]

Cheers, he's been driving my Q8 etron so is used to the electric experience.

 

[GusPectin]

I'm on my third mid life crisis. (I started early)

What I didn’t realise about middle age crisis is that it’s not a one-off “*#$% I’m 35, I better buy a motorcycle” event, but three decades of ongoing psychological torture, with each year revealing a greater discrepancy between the age you feel and the age you appear to be to others.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Bet you had to get up at 4am, sweep the lane of cow xxxx before walking 40 miles to school…. (Monty Python inspired)

Well, of course, we had it tough... we used to have to get up out of the shoe box in the middle of the night and drive to work in a Fiat 126 652cc, air cooled, didn't like to restart when hot, embarrassing in petrol stations but at least it wasn't too heavy to push. Some things don't change though... Mrs Smith still prefers red cars!

 

[CarbonEV]

I’m 32 ! ?