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I have a ZST, great car, power good, drives great and all works well.
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Same here with Subaru. We've had a string of Subaru Outbacks since, I've lost count when. We do lots of k's and never had a single solitary problem with any of them. Lovely to drive, good after sales. The only reason we don’t have one atm is because the six cylinder wasn’t available here when we needed a new car. We have a CX5 Mazda now, very happy with that as well.
Yeah we have had no issues with Subaru's, I was waiting for the new turbo outback, finally got one and the wife got a new Crosstrek, very happy with both cars.
If I had any complaint, they can be a little expensive to service but worth it.
I know people with Mazda's and they are also happy with their choice.
A friend has a ZS, she loves the car but the service from dealer has been absolute garbage. Someone hit her car in a carpark (and ran off), it's going to take 6 months to get repaired. It's also currently dropping oil while parked and they're giving her the run around getting it sorted, which is made worse since she's two hours away from Adelaide. She's already brought it back once, but now has to come back again for the same issue.
We did look at the CX5 because of the turbo. Like you we have had many Subaru's, i purchased a 2021 Outback but found the 2.5 lacked a bit of power compared to the 3.6R we had.
Subaru were saying at the time that the turbo Outback wasn't coming to Australia, so glad they changed their minds, the power in the XT is great and is able to tow more than the non turbo model.
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I actually find them quite reasonable to drive.
I hired a MG SUV think it was just the basic ZS model.
Drove it from the Gold Coast to Darwin and back and it didn't miss a beat.
Once I passed though Mount Isa and hit the NT border, sitting on 140 to 160 Km's overtaking the massive road trains and convoys of Grey Nomads up the Stuart Hwy all the way to Kathrine wasn't a problem.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy one, but I've hired and driven a lot worse Japanese/Euro model vehicles for the same price point
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Yeah, if we'd known they were going to change their minds about the turbo Outback, we may have held off for it, but happy with our Mazda anyway.
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At the AGM Richo said that there will soon be a formal announcement that MG have signed on for another 5 years.
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They basically agreed to sponsor us mid January 2020 and the fornal announcement was around 20th February at Montefiore Hill with Colonel Light pointing to kick to the southern end with the wind.
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Saw this today. Looks like MG is releasing an electric car with a semi solid state battery. 1000km range. Could be a game changer if electric cars start getting that kind of range.
Looks like it has only gained approval for sale in China in November. Will be interesting to see if it delivers on what they are advertising.
Looks like it has only gained approval for sale in China in November. Will be interesting to see if it delivers on what they are advertising.
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Sounds pretty interesting. Maybe full solid state isn't that far off. It seems like this car is made by IM, not MG (unless I misread something), but MG and IM seem to share the same parent company (SAIC) so the tech will probably filter over to MG soon enough.
Looked into IM and MG and it seems like it might be like a Toyota/Lexus kind of deal, so I guess they are pretty much the same thing. So disregard the above.
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Toyota have been threatening to release their 1200km range solid state battery for about two years. The article below suggests they will start producing 1000km range batteries in 2026 with a faster charging time and slowly ramp up production and efficiencies to 1200km over a couple of years.
No surprise MG would only do it in China, where they have hundreds, maybe thousands of dealerships to deal with customers when things go wrong and it doesn't deliver the 1,000km trip. MG gets a mention in the article below.
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I'm buying an Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce. Say what you want, but it's the only drivers car left that isn't asking for 6 figures. I'd never give Chinese EVs etc the time of day - the engineering facts and figures, the lack of warranty, lack of parts and the zero regulations regarding rust proofing should be considered seriously prior to buying a cheap Chinese car.
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I have driven a CX5 for the past 10 years and it has not missed a beat. The I-stop system takes a bit of getting used to but otherwise it is a great car. I have the 2.5 litre option which has enough power for me.
The problem I have with MG is they appear under powered. I am not sure that a 1.5 litre engine, albeit turbo, is going to have the grunt that the CX5 has. I have been hanging out for the solid state electric cars to come on the market and it looks like I will not have long to wait.
The news that Nissan and Honda have agreed to merge and Mitsubishi are thinking about joining them suggests that the Japanese competition is going to contract. I am not sure what effect this will have in the market place. Nissan Honda will become the third largest vehicle manufacturer in the world after the proposed merger.
Nissan, Honda announce merger plans to become third-largest car maker
A potential merger of Honda and Nissan, and its alliance partners Mitsubishi and Renault SA, could create a new manufacturer worth $79.9 billion, producing 8 million cars a year.
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I have the mg5 1.5 turbo. Its decent. The engine in the base model though is shit. Don't bother
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I suspected as much.
IMHO the biggest issue facing Japanese industry and their future international competitiveness is their rapidly declining and ageing population.
From a peak population of 128 million people in 2008, Japan’s total population has been on a steep decline. Japan's population fell by approx one million this year and and its working-age population is expected to shrink by at least 19 million in the next 25 years.
This will create massive workforce shortages and make it increasingly difficult to pay for their existing wide social security net. There is simply no way Japan will be able to compete with the rapid growth of the Chinese EV industry in 10-20 years.
Every analysis of the Renault withdrawal from their Nissan partnership that I've seen has focussed on the 5-10 year future time frame. So no surprises they miss the point. Rest assured that auto manufacturers in Europe and the rest of Asia are thinking on a much longer strategic timeframe and can see the writing on the wall for the Japanese auto industry. Alliances between Nissan and Mitsubishi or Honda are simply delaying the inevitable.
A book by Paul Morland called 'No one Left' released earlier this year covers this issue really well and uses pretty simple mathematics around birth rates to describe the impending productivity and financial crisis facing many western economies as their population ages.
see:
Home | Paul Morland | Demographer, Author & Broadcaster
Dr Paul Morland is a demographer, author and broadcaster who writes and speaks about population and the big demographic trends across the world, both contemporary and historic.
www.paulmorland.co.uk
The future for MG and other Chinese auto manufacturers is very bright in comparison.
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Chinese cars ought to be cheaper than the competition. They don't pay their workers.
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More than 160 Chinese nationals working in "slave-like conditions" to build a factory for BYD have been found in Brazil, according to local authorities.
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