[aldon]

All I can say Garry is that over the last year and half I have hired an Audi a4, passat coupe, passat estate and last week an octavia diesel. I can honestly say that my mg6 is better than all of them.

Audi a4 was difficult to drive due to position of pedals
Passat coupe - stunning to look at nice to drive but had annoying interior rattles
Passat estate - same rattles as coupe
Skoda, well built, over complicated satnav/stereo, extremely boring and painful to dive.

 

[aldon]

NCAp test here......http://www.euroncap.com/files/467_datasheet.pdf

Similar to a Honda civic, only reason it's not 5* is because of pedestrian safety.

He who shall not be named certainly did not give up, and it was the dealer who couldn't help. Because it was a write off it has no warranty so mg wont touch it. He has now modified it, and even been to pod with it.

A guy in South Africa has just had his remapped to 190bhp without losing his warranty, we are waiting for further info on this.

If you do stall it you have to press the key in and remove it and put it back in, I suspect this is what jc didn't do.

Enjoy your test drive and make sure you get it on a mixture of roads.

 

[aldon]

quote
"He who shall not be named certainly did not give up, and it was the dealer who couldn't help. Because it was a write off it has no warranty so mg wont touch it. He has now modified it, and even been to pod with it."

was that the one last month when some of us went, it was a smart looking car tbh but it was painfully slow, i find it hard to believe it was modified , at least in the engine department?!?!?!

Yes dave, I believe it was the same day. Only modification was the exhaust and a slightly larger inter cooler.


He is looking at getting it remapped before mg live, reckons he should be able to get 200bhp out of it. I think he went to pod to do reference runs.

It might be slow in comparison, but I've gone 100 plus on the twisties keeping a 911 at bay. And I'm more than happy with it.

Edit: happy with mine, not his!

 

[aldon]

Seriously?
I'd think the 911 was ill or not trying tbh

Seriously!

 

[aldon]

I think for "keeping at bay" read "holding up".
Sorry but even Windy wouldn't put a 6 and a 911 in the same category.
Just because someone isn't stoopid enough to overtake on the "twisties" doesn't make their car slower or inferior.

Well, I did write a scathing response but then thought hay-ho, I don't really care what you think, I'm happy with the purchase, got a good deal and not regretted it one bit. Also thinking about buying a 3 when that's released.

People thought I was mad to buy two zs180's, tarted up 45, but we all know better, now if I had bought a 120 then that would have been bonkers!

 

[aldon]

Gotta agree with him on lack of headroom - stopped me buying a nice 2nd hand blue one from pinkstones

Heard this one before, but is it just on the s and se models?

I am 6'1" and miles away from the roof, although in the passenger seat I do feel like I'm perched up high.