MG's Wildest EV Yet: LiDAR, 840km Range & British Heritage | MG 07 Review — Transcript

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1. 0:00Quick car quiz. Which brand do you think
2. 0:03makes this car? I'll give you a clue.
3. 0:05It's over a hundred years old and it was
4. 0:08born in a garage in Oxford, but now it
5. 0:11is wearing a laser on top. You guessed
6. 0:14it. This is an MG. And this is an MG07.
7. 0:49Welcome to Wheels, where we cover the
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11. 0:59Welcome to Wheels. I'm Jonathan, and we
12. 1:01were lucky enough to be invited for an
13. 1:03uplose first look of the unveiling of
14. 1:06MG's latest EV. First, the trap. This is
15. 1:10the MG07.
16. 1:13You heard that correctly, the 07, not
17. 1:16the already selling petrol fastback MG7
18. 1:19that is here in China. That is the same
19. 1:23brand, a similar shape, but a completely
20. 1:26different car. The MG7 runs on
21. 1:29dinosaurs, whereas the MG07
22. 1:32runs on electrons. If you take one thing
23. 1:35from this video, it's this. Mind the
24. 1:38Zero. The shape. A big five door
25. 1:42fastback with a sloping roof line into a
26. 1:46panoramic glass canopy. It comes with
27. 1:49C-shaped headlights, clamshell bonnet,
28. 1:52semihidden door handles, frameless
29. 1:55doors, a full width light bar, five
30. 1:58stage active rear spoiler that pops up
31. 2:01when things get a little bit spicy. So,
32. 2:04being a fastback, the biggest advantage
33. 2:06of this car is definitely the boot size.
34. 2:10And my first time seeing this, it is
35. 2:13absolutely huge.
36. 2:16I could pretty much lie down in this
37. 2:18space here. I'm not going to and I'm
38. 2:20very tempted, but I could pretty much
39. 2:22lie down across it. And you can see
40. 2:24there is a monumental amount of space
41. 2:26just on this top layer here. But if you
42. 2:29lift up this bit, I'm guessing, wow,
43. 2:32it's even bigger. It's pretty much
44. 2:35doubled the size of this boot. And it is
45. 2:37extremely deep as you can see here.
46. 2:41So, let's just say how it is. It looks
47. 2:44like a Taken and a Panamera have had a
48. 2:47lovely weekend together, particularly
49. 2:49when you look at the rear here with this
50. 2:51full width light bar. They do come in a
51. 2:54new signature color which is Mel Purple
52. 2:57as well as all the very bold base
53. 2:59colors. They kind of remind me of old
54. 3:02British sweets, particularly this one,
55. 3:04which looks like the pink from a
56. 3:05Battenburg. And the purple reminds me of
57. 3:07a Palmer violet. Oh, and I chose this
58. 3:09color and we came here today. They had
59. 3:11all of these flowers. I didn't ask for
60. 3:13these flowers to be put in here, but
61. 3:14they were just here. And it just seems
62. 3:16to be like the opposite of MG's old
63. 3:18slogan, which is your mother wouldn't
64. 3:21like it. However, I think now your
65. 3:25mother would like it. And now the most
66. 3:27genuinely notable bit of this car is
67. 3:31this, the laser. This is the first MG
68. 3:35car to come equipped with a liar. And
69. 3:39this one is specifically Momento's R
70. 3:42seven driver assistance chip which is
71. 3:45being branded as a worldclass chip. On
72. 3:49paper, it's classed as premium assisted
73. 3:52driving at mainstream prices. However,
74. 3:55we'll see about it when we drive it.
75. 3:57From what I've learned from doing
76. 3:58reviews of other MG cars, particularly
77. 4:00the MG4, it is this that MG give you so
78. 4:05much tech for the money that you pay.
79. 4:07And as a Brit, these things kind of
80. 4:09really scramble my mind because when I
81. 4:12think of an NG, I think of these really
82. 4:14elegant, whizzy things that you repair
83. 4:16on a Sunday morning. And they definitely
84. 4:19don't have these laser thingabobies on
85. 4:21the top of it. This one, however,
86. 4:23updates itself overnight. And it's
87. 4:26punchier than I first thought. 230 kW
88. 4:29and 350 Newton m of torque from SIC's
89. 4:34new integrated rear motor. That's about
90. 4:38310 horsepower. MG have locked in two
91. 4:42versions of the car in terms of mileage,
92. 4:45a 610 km car and a longerlegged 840.
93. 4:50Both are CLTC, so knock a chunk off for
94. 4:53real world performance. The topsp spec
95. 4:55version runs an 800 volt platform with
96. 4:585C charging for genuinely quick top-ups.
97. 5:01Lower trims sit on 400. The battery is
98. 5:05lithium ion manganese phosphate which is
99. 5:08costefficient to build but much more
100. 5:11difficult to catch a light which is
101. 5:14rather the point at this price. The full
102. 5:16specs aren't out yet but we will be
103. 5:18first to tell you when they are. Price
104. 5:21is firm now and it's aggressive.
105. 5:23Pre-sales open early August. The 610 km
106. 5:27version with lidar lands under $150,000
107. 5:30yen about $22,000.
108. 5:33And even the top 840 kilometer version
109. 5:36stays under 180,000 yen, roughly
110. 5:40$26,000.
111. 5:42For context, MG reckons the nearest
112. 5:44rival with 840 km, 800 volt and lidar
113. 5:49starts nearer 230,000
114. 5:53yen, about $34,000.
115. 5:56It's pretty much a knife fight between
116. 5:59the Xiaomi Sue7, uh, BYD Seal, Zika
117. 6:040007,
118. 6:05and also the Tesla Model 3. Cheap, it is
119. 6:09not a bargain. It may be. Did you see
120. 6:13our last Wheels EV tour where we got to
121. 6:16see the beautiful Western Such province
122. 6:18and think to yourself, "Man, I would
123. 6:21love to do that." And would you like to
124. 6:23travel with other car enthusiasts on
125. 6:26another beautiful location for a
126. 6:27once-ina-lifetime trip? Then look no
127. 6:30further and join us on the next Wheels
128. 6:33EV tour in September where we'll be
129. 6:35going to another beautiful location in
130. 6:38northern Shing Jang. If you would like
131. 6:40to find out more information, all you
132. 6:42have to do is go into the description
133. 6:44and click the link below. So, getting
134. 6:46into the cockpit, the car feels
135. 6:48immediately very sporty. It's got a very
136. 6:51low sort of seating position with these
137. 6:54really comfortable seats that keep you
138. 6:56very sort of tied in straight away.
139. 6:59You've got soft touch features across
140. 7:00the whole of the cockpit here. So across
141. 7:02your legs and all the bits that you
142. 7:04would normally touch the most steering
143. 7:07wheel feels lovely. It's got these Tesla
144. 7:10style spinny dial button things that we
145. 7:13normally have as well as a few buttons
146. 7:15in the middle and buttons in the center
147. 7:16too. It's got some real buttons here
148. 7:19which are very very nice.
149. 7:20>> It also comes with a 15.6 in 2.5K
150. 7:24central screen and a standard 8.88 in
151. 7:28driver display. You've got one charging
152. 7:31station on the left hand side here. 30 W
153. 7:34it's saying and you've got some more
154. 7:35underneath type-C and a 12vt there. And
155. 7:39then as you start to get lower it starts
156. 7:41to get a bit more plasticky. So
157. 7:43obviously down here and the AR itself
158. 7:45here. This is very very plasticky as
159. 7:48well. But some of the things I really
160. 7:50like about this particular version that
161. 7:51we've been given today is that if when
162. 7:54you press this button for example on
163. 7:56this particular one, you've got a
164. 7:58built-in tray table. And if you lift
165. 8:00this up, you've got another vanity
166. 8:02mirror as well as the ones on top too.
167. 8:05You've got one above you. So you got a
168. 8:06vanity mirror here and here. And even
169. 8:09better on this one, on the headrest
170. 8:11here, you've got this really cool design
171. 8:13which says the Queen's Jubilee. I'm not
172. 8:16entirely sure why they called it the
173. 8:18Queen's Jubilee. Though I do know this
174. 8:20zeroravity passenger seat is called the
175. 8:23Queen's Seat, and I appreciate the nod
176. 8:25to her late majesty, Queen Elizabeth II,
177. 8:28God bless her soul, who actually trained
178. 8:31as a mechanic and drove trucks in the
179. 8:33auxiliary territorial service. MG have
180. 8:36captured her passion for British cars
181. 8:38and whilst nosing around the studio, we
182. 8:40stumbled on this collaboration and it
183. 8:42featured a lovely mural with her beloved
184. 8:45corgis and of course an MGB Roadster in
185. 8:48the background. Speaking of the MGB, we
186. 8:51also found a demonstration car tracing
187. 8:54MG's history and where the design
188. 8:56elements were drawn from it. the clam
189. 8:58shell bonnet and air ducts from the
190. 9:01MGX181,
191. 9:03the MGA's two-stage shoulders, and of
192. 9:06course, the MGB GT's fastback. As you
193. 9:09can see, there's definitely more to it
194. 9:11than first meets the eye.
195. 9:12>> Oh, and I forgot to mention that this
196. 9:14new MG has this. Check it out.
197. 9:19Look how big this Frank is.
198. 9:25So coming into the back here and I feel
199. 9:26like there's ample amount of room for my
200. 9:29legs. So legs alone, there's like almost
201. 9:32like two hand like fist width away from
202. 9:35the seat there. It's plenty plenty of
203. 9:38space there. And then the seats
204. 9:40themselves are quite large. um going for
205. 9:42your headroom. You can see here I've got
206. 9:44about
207. 9:47I've got about one fist or about maybe
208. 9:49like three fingers three or four fingers
209. 9:52just to the the top of the roof there,
210. 9:56which is pretty good. And then soft
211. 9:57touches all around, which is what I
212. 10:00like. But my favorite part of this rear
213. 10:03second row here is you've got real
214. 10:07buttons for all of the massage, the
215. 10:09cooling, and the heated seats. as well
216. 10:12as you've got three different speakers,
217. 10:14a larger speaker at the bottom here,
218. 10:16speaker in a second, and a speaker above
219. 10:18us here. And then in the center console,
220. 10:21you have one USB charger here, and as
221. 10:24well as two vents, which you can use to
222. 10:26adjust your AC. So, there we go, folks.
223. 10:30The MG07
224. 10:31really wears its heritage very well. It
225. 10:34harks back to the beginnings of the MGB
226. 10:38GT where it had that really sloping
227. 10:42fastback rear that you knew. And it's
228. 10:44all here as well as you can see when
229. 10:46they're bringing this into the future
230. 10:48too. Even though it's been owned by SIC
231. 10:52since 2007, the Octagon badge is still
232. 10:56doing its best, except now it speaks in
233. 11:00Mandarin. So, drop your thoughts below
234. 11:02and let us know of what you think about
235. 11:04this styling. Would you take this car
236. 11:06over the Tesla Model 3? Let us know. And
237. 11:09as always, thank you very much for
238. 11:11watching and we'll see you in the next
239. 11:13one.
240. 11:18>> Thank you very much for watching and
241. 11:20we'll see you in the next one. And I'm
242. 11:22in this purple car. This is my new
243. 11:25favorite color.