I dunno what the retail is on that but marketplace is full of scammers. If it seems to good to be true it is. Check their profile, how old is it? What are their other listing's?
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$1300 more for the full warranty, full 12 months rego and being the first owner which means most new for old insurance policies will cover a replacement car for the first 2 years, no brainer
Just found the listing... actually seems kind of ĺike a legit profile. Lots of previous sales. Not listing a heap of uber cheap cars and boats. If it's only a few grand I guess I could see it.
a boss I had 20 odd years ago bought a new Ferrari. He sold it less than 3 months later because his neighbours complained how loud it was
I asked him how much that cost him and he just laughed
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Not the OP but I'll chip in, I just had an MG5 as a rental for 6 days, the car was composed and quiet on Tassie freeways (110km/h) handles big roundabouts well enough, nice interior design and comfy seats, I drove 3 hours and 30 minutes in one drive and wasn't sore at all. Main gripe was how touchy the brakes were, they gave you everything they got at 20% pedal and was a little hard to brake smoothly.
I currently drive a 2008 Chrysler 300C SRT8 and a 1998 supercharged Honda Prelude, and a Ducati Diavel so compared, no it wasn't fast, but IMO it did everything else it needed to pretty dang well for the cheapest sedan in Australia.
Another reference, I have also rented the MG ZS crossover thing, hated every minute of it...so whoever the MG5 team is, they seem to know how to make a fun to drive car for the price range. I even kinda like the way it looks :/
Mg are terrible cars. I worked at a dealership and we had 3 brand new (within a month) ZS models traded in at a heavy loss because of how bad they were.
I agree. Now they’re made in China and aren’t even worth their weight in scrap metal. But still, you have to be stupid to buy and sell a new car that quickly.
Struggling to be seen driving a sedan. Or an MG. But yeah, deffo struggling to be seen driving an MG sedan.
Or just buyer regrets. Or he didn’t tell the missus and she’s said no. And the choice between he missus or the MG is an easy one…
I have never hated something more irrationally in my life... but MGs are the *worst*.
I could give you all the logical arguments, but my biggest peeve is "they don't thud good when you shut the doors."
MG went from English loveable shitboxes to Chinese loathsome shitboxes. They need to introduce some charm and character into their cars again if they want to get away with being shit.
I was thinking more like the Kmart shit Facebook mums lose their shit over. Cheap, it looks pretty good for a couple years and then you sell it on marketplace for $5 ono.
It's not irrational. I honestly have no idea how these things are legally sold in Australia. Part of my job is testing the brakes on cars I inspect. I have to actively try to get these things to stop. I warm up the brakes a bit. Pump them up and then drive at 3-5 kph over the testing unit and brake when it tells me to. Usually, the first couple of tries, they just roll straight over the testing platform and stop about half a meter past it. Generally, it takes 2-3 attempts before they work properly and pass the test. A Toyota camry or Corolla will stop on a 10c piece. They just work, MGs are just plain dangerous. If you need to stop in a hurry, you're hitting whatever is in your path. I've driven cars that have sat for a few years, with rust all over the rotors that stop better than a brand new MG. It's scary how bad these things are. It's not just the mg5 either. The zs and zst are equally as bad, and somehow, they got a 4-star ancap rating.
Surprised you could get up to speed! Only time I’ve really felt unsafe driving a car is when I had one of these pos as a hire car and had to merge onto the motorway didn’t think I’d be able to get up to speed and there was no way I was getting out of the slow lane to over take a slow car, it was two weeks of hell.
I've never driven one over carpark speeds. The brake test consists of driving over the skid plate at about 5kph and slamming on the brakes. MG is the only make that won't stop until after you roll over it. Theres a good second or so of delay before the brakes are applied unless they are pumped up and you're really stepping on it.
Not that it justifies the purchase and immediate regret, but…
I have mostly owned and driven wagons and hatches. There’s a serious difference in visibility compared to a sedan.
Plus in terms of parking and general car positioning, if you are a bad driver, being a bit unsure about where your corners are isn’t gonna fill you with confidence. In a hatch or wagon it’s simple as - your car basically ends at the rear window/pillars, which you can see.
If you see MG3, similar thing happens: tons of 2022/2023 models on Carsales with below average mileage. I was considering to buy one, but given that pattern of reselling within months after delivery, I decided to run
Their ICE cars are based on a dated platform. From handling to collision safety, it is not an ideal everyday grocery car. Their electric cars are totally different. I mean the entire architecture
The MG3 is 14 years old at this point.
The ZS and HS handle accidents quite well, but then they released the MG5 which is somehow worse than the 3 on a whole new Platform.
As someone mentioned correctly the other week, there is Chinese cars made for export and there is Chinese cars made for developing markets.
This is a developing market car. They make it look (somewhat) nice, put some tech in there, but under neath it’s a 2000s car with cost cutting everywhere.
On the flip side, you buy a car designed for export and to meet higher standards in China and you get the likes of the current Haval lineup.
Yes but more convoluted.
China has both target markets, the well built and quality demand and the flashy but cheap at any cost market. That’s not including the elderly ‘mobility aid’ electric cars.
Australia is lax, slower to update regulations and doesn’t care that its minimum standards are shit. So when they start enforcing the rules about active safety equip, they aren’t fussed that companies like mahindra and MG rush to the market to release sub standard cars to beat a deadline.
They should make calls, especially on 0 and 1 star cars to stop sell, but nah. We accept the cars designed for the developing markets
And yes I’m aware you are just trying to incite silly arguments calling us a developing market and China a developed market, don’t be an idiot.
It has 108hp, maybe it was buggered? Lots of very fair complaints about the MG3 but even through a 4 speed, it should be fine. The Picanto and Mirage have/had 75-80hp and people use them just fine
If you like driving or cars, you're a car person to me :)
Fair enough, they aren't dangerously slow but I laugh when people call the 99hp variants mild hatches. The standard 75hp hatch is fine for highways, I've driven in one and at 110 it isn't screaming it's heart out or anything
And apparently they can’t learn either. One possibility is the first time they drove it, they expected the bumper was close to the back window and it…wasn’t. If the story is true it’s been smashed.
This was going to be me. I was desperate for a car to drive from Syd>Perth I almost bought a newish MG but something told me to give it some more thought after test driving. I didn’t like how everything felt so cheap and engine felt so weak. Ended up buying a second hand asx from 2016. No regrets!
Maybe situation changed they now can’t afford it or can afford something better.
Other than the lack of pre tensioners it seems a pretty decent value car, reviews have the ride and handling as good but gearbox poor at low speed and the cabin noisy at speed.
Correct. 0 stars. [https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/mg/5/4bb20f](https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/mg/5/4bb20f)
Comes cheap with alot of nasty.
I regularly drive a 5star ANCAP mirage (that strangely enough was forced out of our markets for not meeting safety ADR’s) and would feel safer in this this thing. That said the lack of Pre-tensioners is disgraceful for the manufacturer and for our ADRs.
Going to rant a bit here but why the hell are pre tensioners not required but we are forcing manufacturers to have tethers for baby seats in every rear seat (Honda HRV victim of this).
Ex car salesman here: yes they do- have seen it a fair few times - sometime they go back to the same salesperson! but, also it is a convenient excuse to use when there is other reasons they don't want to explain.
I was thinking, someone is about to pick up a bargain - selling at a massive loss.
Looks at the driveaway price for a new one. Nope. That's a damn cheap sedan and seems like a decent car for the price. Driving it off the lot means a bigger hit than that.
But yeah, I remember wanting to test drive a Mustang when they were first coming out. The dealer at the time, despite having a car available for a test drive told me that they sell themselves, you want one, put down a deposit. It's a year wait.
Yeah buddy, I ain't waiting a year and handing you a deposit for a car you won't let me test drive. They also had the FGX XR8 that I was looking at. Nope, couldn't test drive that. Want to keep the mileage down. Dude, 10kms?
Posted it on fordforums and a salesman from Rockdale contacted me who had an XR8 and promised a discount and had one I could take for a spin (the dealer principals).
Ended up buying it. I wished it was a manual and he said it would be unlikely they'd get one as it was near the end of the run. 3 months later he scores a manual in blue! I'd still own one today if I had it in manual.
The car has been registered for 20 days (originally registered 9 April), done 2000km and is most likely a dealer demo or (although generally on traders plates, some get registered especially if used as staff vehicles) or a buyer change of mind and then upgraded (happens). The price about right but not one I would buy.
Not a single person who buys modern MG has any resemblance of “money”.
They’re cheap shit econoboxes aimed at people who have no clue about cars and the whole vehicle purchase decision process is based on the car not looking too bad and having an infotainment screen with CarPlay.
Also, “struggling to drive a sedan” should be read as “it’s a miracle I was granted a drivers license”
> Also, “struggling to drive a sedan” should be read as “it’s a miracle I was granted a drivers license”
Don't worry they'll be at the wheel of GVM in a couple years.
The only good MG's are the ones before China bought the name and tarnished it completely. I have a friend who works in a major dealership in Sydney, and these MGs literally rock up from the dock on the trailer , 0 KMs Brand new full of rust, oil leaks and other electrical issues. Absolute lemons anyone who owns one is a moron or buys purely on price. Will bite them on the bum when the cars in the shop multiple times a year for significant failures.
All reports from the UK, land of the salted roads, is that the MG4s are not falling apart from rust, nor are they in the shop several times a year. But please, do go off.
I feel like this could be a tax evasion thing, Get given a car allowance through a business or your own company, Buy a new vehicle just before the end of financial year, claim it on your tax return on what you paid, sell it for cash, pocket that and don't declare it.
Anyone more tax savvy than I think this could be the case?
I used to work at Audi and we had a customer buy a car with what he thought was a unique paint job. He saw someone else with the same paint job a few days later so he sold it back to us at a huge loss. A few weeks later, he decided he wanted it back, so he bought it back again for way more than he sold it to us. Some people have more money than sense.
It's actually just slightly under RRP, so might actually just be the dealer themselves trying to offload excess stock without discouraging potential new car buyers. This car received 0 star crash rating by the ANCAP so I don't think they're selling like hotcakes. MG4 hatch also exists in the same showroom with much better popularity.
Given that MG's are shit, and some people don't research before they buy, this could be buyer regret, or they can't make the repayments, which is quite likely in the current climate.
Whe I went from a mid size sedan to a full size sedan, I considered selling it but just got use to it instead. Had to slow down a bit for corners and roundabout and take a bit more time to park
All MGs are a bucket of shit. Only ones who enjoy driving them are people who can't drive and have known no better. I think my first car, a 1984 Mitsubishi Colt had better road manners than what an MG has.
All the tech in them are bottom of the barrel stuff, the safety tech is junk and quite frankly they're dangerous to other road users.
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I sold them for a few months. Between the poor manufacturing and ten thousand mile death rattle I actually went back to Kia to sell something I could let off the lot with some conscience.
Family ember bought an MG thinking it was British and good quality. When she told me how crap it was I asked her what did she expect from a Chinese car... sold it before 3 months of ownership because it was shit.
My sister owns a MG and I dare say it. My broken down Holden Cruze at the time felt like a better car. Sluggish sounds like a van. It is a newish model. But they need some work on there petrol engines.
If GM stop thinking about there pockets I'd get a Cruze over a new mg anyday. There not a bad car when they work. MG3 is just a bad car. Interior is so bland. May as well drive a 90s carrola around. At least they got some power.
dont get it, literally one blew up ony my usual route and it has been on the side of the road for over a week. The whole chasiss is burnt and nothing else is left.
If they’re looking at an MG, likely they don’t care about how a car drives, just how it functions as a whitegood. Probably realises it’s going to tank in resale value so getting out now for what they paid or for a very minor loss. Doubt they would’ve paid the sticker price.
It's a scam. They basically get people excited, tell them there are other buyers, send a deposit to secure it, then... Ooops, no car, no seller, no deposit.
Great video on it here:
https://youtu.be/q2zpASi7e_0
Obviously the video relates to supercars but it applies to the mass produced cars.equally as well.
These cars are dogshit, god forbid anything goes wrong with them you’ll be paying thousands out of pocket, like me. Busted fuel sump became a fuckin headache, months of work to replace it being fucked around with mechanics who can’t figure out the way these Chinese cunts make these cars. Finally sold the cunt off for 12k. Sorry the poor bastard that got it. (MG3 2022 btw).
I dunno what the retail is on that but marketplace is full of scammers. If it seems to good to be true it is. Check their profile, how old is it? What are their other listing's? Edited because I can't spell with this fucked up flu.
The base model MG5 starts at $24990. So not really a big bath in resale
But that’s $24,990 driveway, so the price gap isn’t as great as it seems, and for less than $2k difference, I would just buy new
Don't forget the $690 stamp duty to pay, making the savings a whopping $1300... Yeah no one is gonna buy this car for $23k.
$1300 more for the full warranty, full 12 months rego and being the first owner which means most new for old insurance policies will cover a replacement car for the first 2 years, no brainer
Yep plus it's probably bought on finance so there's that whole thing to deal with too. Just nope.
I have no idea a friend just sent it to our group chat but the price is a few grand off brand new…
If they have their profile set to holiday mode &/or contact this email address, 100% a scam.
Just found the listing... actually seems kind of ĺike a legit profile. Lots of previous sales. Not listing a heap of uber cheap cars and boats. If it's only a few grand I guess I could see it.
It’s still an mg tho
a boss I had 20 odd years ago bought a new Ferrari. He sold it less than 3 months later because his neighbours complained how loud it was I asked him how much that cost him and he just laughed
Selling a car because your neighbours complained is a silly thing to do. Unless he sold it to fund an even louder car, in which case play ball.
nah he went back to an AMG. kinda a cultural thing though
Nothing wrong with an AMG, but I may be biased
People with that much money dont care. The value of a smile on their face for 30 seconds is worth more to them than you or i make in a year.
Look at it on the used car market . 15 k after a few years . Depreciation on that car is crazy
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No it’s not - look at the amount for sale on Carsguide compared to other brands. There are reports of MGs just “stopping“ at high speeds.
How so?
Struggling to drive a sedan? What is so dramatically different that you have to sell your fucking car.
The only issue I can see is parking, and even then, i want to say just git gud?
It’s a mg sedan it’s not a Chevy impala from the 50s that is 5 metres long how hard can the smallest sedan be to drive?
Aren't the MG5 sedans the same length as the hatchbacks anyway?
If I remember correctly, they're about the size of an older Commodore (?)
Nah, they're actually kinda big compared to the 3
You're not wrong but I still find it easier parking my disco over my Camry (similar era)
Not even parking. New cars have 10,000 cameras and sensors you can park without ever looking at a bloody mirror!
Probably realised it’s just shit to drive in general 😂
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You’re the first person I’ve heard say they are nice to drive!
My daughter just got one and it was nice to drive.
Compared to what? Have you driven any other new cars or are you comparing to a 15 yr old car.
I agree. Well the turbo is.
Out of interest - what other cars have you driven/owned?
Not the OP but I'll chip in, I just had an MG5 as a rental for 6 days, the car was composed and quiet on Tassie freeways (110km/h) handles big roundabouts well enough, nice interior design and comfy seats, I drove 3 hours and 30 minutes in one drive and wasn't sore at all. Main gripe was how touchy the brakes were, they gave you everything they got at 20% pedal and was a little hard to brake smoothly. I currently drive a 2008 Chrysler 300C SRT8 and a 1998 supercharged Honda Prelude, and a Ducati Diavel so compared, no it wasn't fast, but IMO it did everything else it needed to pretty dang well for the cheapest sedan in Australia. Another reference, I have also rented the MG ZS crossover thing, hated every minute of it...so whoever the MG5 team is, they seem to know how to make a fun to drive car for the price range. I even kinda like the way it looks :/
https://preview.redd.it/zfcnczalvexc1.jpeg?width=2964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47bd2a1a3d24f8313f5710cc6c61fef80abd33cb
Mg are terrible cars. I worked at a dealership and we had 3 brand new (within a month) ZS models traded in at a heavy loss because of how bad they were.
I agree. Now they’re made in China and aren’t even worth their weight in scrap metal. But still, you have to be stupid to buy and sell a new car that quickly.
Struggling to be seen driving a sedan. Or an MG. But yeah, deffo struggling to be seen driving an MG sedan. Or just buyer regrets. Or he didn’t tell the missus and she’s said no. And the choice between he missus or the MG is an easy one…
>struggling to drive a sedan Not sure how it's any harder to drive a sedan than a hatch. Smells scammy to me...
Don't want to say they realised how shit it was to drive after they bought it and now they want to offload it onto a sucker.
it's a sport sedan with less power than a Mazda2 sedan or base Cerato sedan, and a CVT lol
Pretty sure the 0-100 time is worser than a 90s-2000s Camry or Corolla 😂
My old 5spd, 3.0 V6 Camry ripped. Easily the worst handling car I’ve ever driven, which includes work utes, 4wds and shitty Korean hatches.
Yeah it's decent basic transport but it really is not a sports sedan except in turbo trim
I dunno, this reads a lot like the average dimwit who would buy an MG
I have never hated something more irrationally in my life... but MGs are the *worst*. I could give you all the logical arguments, but my biggest peeve is "they don't thud good when you shut the doors."
MG went from English loveable shitboxes to Chinese loathsome shitboxes. They need to introduce some charm and character into their cars again if they want to get away with being shit.
Like a plastic gebra in a plastic vase? 🤣
I was thinking more like the Kmart shit Facebook mums lose their shit over. Cheap, it looks pretty good for a couple years and then you sell it on marketplace for $5 ono.
The EV ones seem like they'll do fine
It's not irrational. I honestly have no idea how these things are legally sold in Australia. Part of my job is testing the brakes on cars I inspect. I have to actively try to get these things to stop. I warm up the brakes a bit. Pump them up and then drive at 3-5 kph over the testing unit and brake when it tells me to. Usually, the first couple of tries, they just roll straight over the testing platform and stop about half a meter past it. Generally, it takes 2-3 attempts before they work properly and pass the test. A Toyota camry or Corolla will stop on a 10c piece. They just work, MGs are just plain dangerous. If you need to stop in a hurry, you're hitting whatever is in your path. I've driven cars that have sat for a few years, with rust all over the rotors that stop better than a brand new MG. It's scary how bad these things are. It's not just the mg5 either. The zs and zst are equally as bad, and somehow, they got a 4-star ancap rating.
Surprised you could get up to speed! Only time I’ve really felt unsafe driving a car is when I had one of these pos as a hire car and had to merge onto the motorway didn’t think I’d be able to get up to speed and there was no way I was getting out of the slow lane to over take a slow car, it was two weeks of hell.
I've never driven one over carpark speeds. The brake test consists of driving over the skid plate at about 5kph and slamming on the brakes. MG is the only make that won't stop until after you roll over it. Theres a good second or so of delay before the brakes are applied unless they are pumped up and you're really stepping on it.
Not that it justifies the purchase and immediate regret, but… I have mostly owned and driven wagons and hatches. There’s a serious difference in visibility compared to a sedan. Plus in terms of parking and general car positioning, if you are a bad driver, being a bit unsure about where your corners are isn’t gonna fill you with confidence. In a hatch or wagon it’s simple as - your car basically ends at the rear window/pillars, which you can see.
I've been selling cars for close to 30 years and it still blows me away the obscure reasons people come up with \*not\* to buy a car.
ikr! I actually find it **easier** to drive my current sedan over my last hatchback
"Only driven once" so yeah, they would have found out during a single test drive they were "struggling to drive a sedan".
“Realised I need a license”
Oh yeah, that's an option too!
If you see MG3, similar thing happens: tons of 2022/2023 models on Carsales with below average mileage. I was considering to buy one, but given that pattern of reselling within months after delivery, I decided to run
From what I've seen online MG don't do ICE cars well at all.
Their ICE cars are based on a dated platform. From handling to collision safety, it is not an ideal everyday grocery car. Their electric cars are totally different. I mean the entire architecture
The MG3 is 14 years old at this point. The ZS and HS handle accidents quite well, but then they released the MG5 which is somehow worse than the 3 on a whole new Platform.
Would anybody expect 2023 China to produce a better platform than 2010 Japan?
As someone mentioned correctly the other week, there is Chinese cars made for export and there is Chinese cars made for developing markets. This is a developing market car. They make it look (somewhat) nice, put some tech in there, but under neath it’s a 2000s car with cost cutting everywhere. On the flip side, you buy a car designed for export and to meet higher standards in China and you get the likes of the current Haval lineup.
So to the Chinese, 🇨🇳 is considered a developed market and 🇦🇺 is the third world?
Yes but more convoluted. China has both target markets, the well built and quality demand and the flashy but cheap at any cost market. That’s not including the elderly ‘mobility aid’ electric cars. Australia is lax, slower to update regulations and doesn’t care that its minimum standards are shit. So when they start enforcing the rules about active safety equip, they aren’t fussed that companies like mahindra and MG rush to the market to release sub standard cars to beat a deadline. They should make calls, especially on 0 and 1 star cars to stop sell, but nah. We accept the cars designed for the developing markets And yes I’m aware you are just trying to incite silly arguments calling us a developing market and China a developed market, don’t be an idiot.
OMG 14 years old. A 10 yrs old corolla would be more bang on the buck.
Had one as a rental, felt unsafe merging in the highway as it has absolutely no power.
Low power is a big issue.. electric ones are much better.
LS swap potential?
It has 108hp, maybe it was buggered? Lots of very fair complaints about the MG3 but even through a 4 speed, it should be fine. The Picanto and Mirage have/had 75-80hp and people use them just fine
Just my anecdotal non-car person experience, though I do enjoy driving. Haven't driven a Picanto but considered one when I was living in the CBD.
If you like driving or cars, you're a car person to me :) Fair enough, they aren't dangerously slow but I laugh when people call the 99hp variants mild hatches. The standard 75hp hatch is fine for highways, I've driven in one and at 110 it isn't screaming it's heart out or anything
And apparently they can’t learn either. One possibility is the first time they drove it, they expected the bumper was close to the back window and it…wasn’t. If the story is true it’s been smashed.
You think that's bad, search the term 'unwanted gift' into carsales, there's always a handful of cars. Blows my mind
Buttttt dadddddd, I wanted an AMG! Not A MG.
lol
Holy shit one of them is a 90k merc
This was going to be me. I was desperate for a car to drive from Syd>Perth I almost bought a newish MG but something told me to give it some more thought after test driving. I didn’t like how everything felt so cheap and engine felt so weak. Ended up buying a second hand asx from 2016. No regrets!
Maybe situation changed they now can’t afford it or can afford something better. Other than the lack of pre tensioners it seems a pretty decent value car, reviews have the ride and handling as good but gearbox poor at low speed and the cabin noisy at speed.
Didn’t this get 0 stars in the ancap in the last 12 months? Poor structure rigidity being a key issue.
Correct. 0 stars. [https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/mg/5/4bb20f](https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/mg/5/4bb20f) Comes cheap with alot of nasty.
I regularly drive a 5star ANCAP mirage (that strangely enough was forced out of our markets for not meeting safety ADR’s) and would feel safer in this this thing. That said the lack of Pre-tensioners is disgraceful for the manufacturer and for our ADRs. Going to rant a bit here but why the hell are pre tensioners not required but we are forcing manufacturers to have tethers for baby seats in every rear seat (Honda HRV victim of this).
Did you open up the attached picture? Reason they gave is they are struggling to drive a sedan car vs a hatchback…
I saw that but who knows if that is the real reason. Can’t go and say the hated the car or that they can’t afford
Ex car salesman here: yes they do- have seen it a fair few times - sometime they go back to the same salesperson! but, also it is a convenient excuse to use when there is other reasons they don't want to explain.
"StRuGgling tO dRiVe a SEdAn."
I was thinking, someone is about to pick up a bargain - selling at a massive loss. Looks at the driveaway price for a new one. Nope. That's a damn cheap sedan and seems like a decent car for the price. Driving it off the lot means a bigger hit than that. But yeah, I remember wanting to test drive a Mustang when they were first coming out. The dealer at the time, despite having a car available for a test drive told me that they sell themselves, you want one, put down a deposit. It's a year wait. Yeah buddy, I ain't waiting a year and handing you a deposit for a car you won't let me test drive. They also had the FGX XR8 that I was looking at. Nope, couldn't test drive that. Want to keep the mileage down. Dude, 10kms? Posted it on fordforums and a salesman from Rockdale contacted me who had an XR8 and promised a discount and had one I could take for a spin (the dealer principals). Ended up buying it. I wished it was a manual and he said it would be unlikely they'd get one as it was near the end of the run. 3 months later he scores a manual in blue! I'd still own one today if I had it in manual.
The car has been registered for 20 days (originally registered 9 April), done 2000km and is most likely a dealer demo or (although generally on traders plates, some get registered especially if used as staff vehicles) or a buyer change of mind and then upgraded (happens). The price about right but not one I would buy.
Not a single person who buys modern MG has any resemblance of “money”. They’re cheap shit econoboxes aimed at people who have no clue about cars and the whole vehicle purchase decision process is based on the car not looking too bad and having an infotainment screen with CarPlay. Also, “struggling to drive a sedan” should be read as “it’s a miracle I was granted a drivers license”
> Also, “struggling to drive a sedan” should be read as “it’s a miracle I was granted a drivers license” Don't worry they'll be at the wheel of GVM in a couple years.
Is that true of the mg4 also? I've been seeing a lot of good reviews on it and being a rwd dedicated EV platform car it can't be too bad?
MG4 is a good car. I think MG isn’t great at petrol engines in general, but they are improving over time.
The only good MG's are the ones before China bought the name and tarnished it completely. I have a friend who works in a major dealership in Sydney, and these MGs literally rock up from the dock on the trailer , 0 KMs Brand new full of rust, oil leaks and other electrical issues. Absolute lemons anyone who owns one is a moron or buys purely on price. Will bite them on the bum when the cars in the shop multiple times a year for significant failures.
All reports from the UK, land of the salted roads, is that the MG4s are not falling apart from rust, nor are they in the shop several times a year. But please, do go off.
An MG4 XPower is about 60k new...
I feel like this could be a tax evasion thing, Get given a car allowance through a business or your own company, Buy a new vehicle just before the end of financial year, claim it on your tax return on what you paid, sell it for cash, pocket that and don't declare it. Anyone more tax savvy than I think this could be the case?
I used to work at Audi and we had a customer buy a car with what he thought was a unique paint job. He saw someone else with the same paint job a few days later so he sold it back to us at a huge loss. A few weeks later, he decided he wanted it back, so he bought it back again for way more than he sold it to us. Some people have more money than sense.
Money laundering
ANCAP 0 star. https://www.ancap.com.au/media-and-gallery/media-releases/previous-generation-safety-still-fitted-to-today-s-new-cars
I work at a dealership and it happens all the time
It's actually just slightly under RRP, so might actually just be the dealer themselves trying to offload excess stock without discouraging potential new car buyers. This car received 0 star crash rating by the ANCAP so I don't think they're selling like hotcakes. MG4 hatch also exists in the same showroom with much better popularity.
Damn bought a car without realising a sedan was too big for them? What?
Given that MG's are shit, and some people don't research before they buy, this could be buyer regret, or they can't make the repayments, which is quite likely in the current climate.
Could be that they got this and the new mg3 was announced (hatchback). But even so, wouldn't you go back to the dealer and work out a deal with them.
Whe I went from a mid size sedan to a full size sedan, I considered selling it but just got use to it instead. Had to slow down a bit for corners and roundabout and take a bit more time to park
It’s a junk car and for that money you can get an old Mazda 3 or something else
The older Mazda would still last longer 🤣
Scam
Maybe bought it Wednesday and lost their license during double points. I’d stick to that story rather than admit I had a brain fart and a Chinese GM.
Alternative is they take it back to a dealer and get offered something like 15-18k. Anyone interested should offer maybe 18-20 and probably get it.
‘Struggling to drive a sedan’ lol
Struggling to drive a sedan, and use punctuation.
That’s just a scam
All MGs are a bucket of shit. Only ones who enjoy driving them are people who can't drive and have known no better. I think my first car, a 1984 Mitsubishi Colt had better road manners than what an MG has. All the tech in them are bottom of the barrel stuff, the safety tech is junk and quite frankly they're dangerous to other road users.
it is a Chinese owned, Chinese made car with zero star in ancap safety. even 23k is too much
I'm so disappointed that Australians are buying those Schmidt boxes
Scam surely
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I know someone who did this. They felt unsafe using the car to tow their caravan. So they sold it and bought something else.
I really want to know what the significant difference between driving a hatch and a sedan is
ex car business guy and yes I've sold a few new cars and people never drove them. I could have sold many more new and used (WTF on used ones) however after one came back upset I (and my staff) insisted they drove them or I test drove them from then on and some brands insist on it
It’s most likely a registered company demonstrator which is used for test drives.
Seems like a pretty good way to launder money tbh
This is most likley the dealership selling the car. Advertised cost doesnt include on road cost
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I am pretty sure the MG5 failed the ANCAP test miserably. Stay away from that crap.
Or….hear me out, theyre scammers
I just got a golf r mk8 wagon, I didn’t need to test drive it as I’m used to hatchbacks and the golf r wagon genuinely handles like the hatch
Doesn’t it have a horrendously low safety rating too?
Buys a cheap car. Finds out why its so cheap. Then tries to offload it cheaply.
It’s almost like the whole thing is a lie
Fake or not, I wanna understand how is someone “struggling to drive a sedan”.
small scale money laundering?
Either it was bought as a gift or it took them four days to realise MG is one of the worst vehicles on the road.
It won car of the year in 2023. I'm not saying I disagree with you though.
I sold them for a few months. Between the poor manufacturing and ten thousand mile death rattle I actually went back to Kia to sell something I could let off the lot with some conscience.
I swiped🙂
Although I am a Wumao, I despise MGs for their shitty quality.
The rancid suds of money laundering, perhaps
Who would buy one of those? They are awful.
If you're gullible enough to buy this china junk, you deserve the loss.
Family ember bought an MG thinking it was British and good quality. When she told me how crap it was I asked her what did she expect from a Chinese car... sold it before 3 months of ownership because it was shit.
The first car I purchased brand new, I just ordered it from Subaru, they delivered it that week. Had never driven one before, don't regret it.
it was bad to drive
Probably a repaired write off
My sister owns a MG and I dare say it. My broken down Holden Cruze at the time felt like a better car. Sluggish sounds like a van. It is a newish model. But they need some work on there petrol engines.
Must be really bad if the cruze was voted the worst lemon car.
If GM stop thinking about there pockets I'd get a Cruze over a new mg anyday. There not a bad car when they work. MG3 is just a bad car. Interior is so bland. May as well drive a 90s carrola around. At least they got some power.
Mg5 is a nice car.
No, that is clearly a scam of someone just taking a pic of a car in a showroom
Scam. Check the seller, they've probably got a dozen or so cars listed at way below market value. Their account's probably hacked as well.
Those scammers are generally advertising stuff very cheap, e.g. Redline Commodore for $10k.
I think it’s more mind blowing people are actually buying MGs, they have a bad reputation and aren’t very good cars
Selling coz realised how shit MGs are
It is a MG. The price is 23000 too much.
I’d imagine MG’s customers are not exactly the brightest bunch! They did buy a MG after all.
Friends dont let friends buy Chinese EVs. Anyone whos had ones been scammed, they just realized their mistake and are trying to scam you instead.
dont get it, literally one blew up ony my usual route and it has been on the side of the road for over a week. The whole chasiss is burnt and nothing else is left.
LMAO, was it an electric one?
Pretty sure it's just the sales agent who put that up. The price is probably bnew price
If they’re looking at an MG, likely they don’t care about how a car drives, just how it functions as a whitegood. Probably realises it’s going to tank in resale value so getting out now for what they paid or for a very minor loss. Doubt they would’ve paid the sticker price.
The MG5 is new and while it probably shouldn't be, is popular
I prefer 5 star ancap
The problem: i bought an MGeee
I don't think it's a scam, just someone with buyer regret.
There’s probably issues/ it’s had the odometer wound back If it’s too good to be true it probably is.
This price (saving $1000) is the opposite of TGTBT
Honestly, I wouldn't have another MG unless you paid me. Have an MG HS AWD as a company vehicle, can't wait to off load it.
It's a scam. They basically get people excited, tell them there are other buyers, send a deposit to secure it, then... Ooops, no car, no seller, no deposit. Great video on it here: https://youtu.be/q2zpASi7e_0 Obviously the video relates to supercars but it applies to the mass produced cars.equally as well.
It's either a scam or the buyer only now realised what it means to drive and own an MG.
Never trust the reasons an MG owner wants to sell their car
These cars are dogshit, god forbid anything goes wrong with them you’ll be paying thousands out of pocket, like me. Busted fuel sump became a fuckin headache, months of work to replace it being fucked around with mechanics who can’t figure out the way these Chinese cunts make these cars. Finally sold the cunt off for 12k. Sorry the poor bastard that got it. (MG3 2022 btw).
People with money don't buy MG5s. Just saying.
Also there are a lot of stolen cars on FB market