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The 6 was doomed from day 1, trade don't want them second hand, used they are pretty much worthless. I think they'd have been better advertising the 3 as a Roewe or Ssangyong, it's only sentimental fossils who seem to be falling for the Blitishness of the car. Dealers must be utterly pissed off with the lack of sales, it simply doesn't justify the franchise fees, and back up form HQ isn't that good from what dealers have been saying

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That MG GS doesn't appear bad value - the top of the range £19k job gets power heated seats and iGo satnav and mirrorlink and stuff. I reserve the right to be appalled by build quality though since that's what let the 6 down. And no, it's no worse looking than any other soft-roader lifestyle 4x4 currently out there.

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That must be for actually buying one as their PCP deals start at £99 a month.

 

GS is overpriced, cheapest is £199 a month with a three grand deposit, you can get a Juke for £219 a month with £219 deposit, I know which I'd go for, if someone had taken my family hostage in order to force me to take out a PCP deal on a fugly modern for some reason.

 

The GS needs to be £12,995 or less, pricing the base model the same as the Juke is a GR12 way to sell approximately none.

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MG management seem to be little more than clueless dolts, their other family member Ssangyong however seem to be getting there, seen quite a few new ones around here, as we have a dealer on the outskirts of town, who advertises regularly. If I was an MG franchisee, I'd be demanding heads on a spike outside Wongblidge for the frankly piss poor sales and shoddy products. Just look at Renner's effort Dacia in comparison, the 3 needs to be priced to compete with the Sandero, but nope. A chimp could do a better job than MG management

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As much as it pains me to say, the place is a Fucking joke.

 

If the Chinese knew they couldn't make a go of it with the 2, 4, 7 and MG range of cars, what part of their deluded minds told them this new one trick pony would work?

 

I quite fancy a 6, but even I am not that much of a MENTALIST.

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MG management seem to be little more than clueless dolts, their other family member Ssangyong however seem to be getting there, seen quite a few new ones around here, as we have a dealer on the outskirts of town, who advertises regularly. If I was an MG franchisee, I'd be demanding heads on a spike outside Wongblidge for the frankly piss poor sales and shoddy products. Just look at Renner's effort Dacia in comparison, the 3 needs to be priced to compete with the Sandero, but nope. A chimp could do a better job than MG management

Ssangyong has nothing to do with SAIC, they're owned by Mahindra.

MG UK really are useless.

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MG were obviously paying his latest fine for mileage adjustment.

 

I love how he compares it to cars from 'Stuttgart and Munich', he also did that with the Alfa 164 and as a former 164 owner I can confirm that's utter bollocks.

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There was a bloke on MacDroitwich who actually bought a 3 and told the truth about it.  He had to engineer fixes for certain issues, like water ingress from the front doors and revs hanging on when changing gear.  Fundamental stuff. Then the paint started peeling off and Longbridge refused warranty.  He got rid in less than a year and lost a packet.  

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I had a Juke as a hire car once, and quite liked it.

That, is no worse looking than a Juke - unless they've just decided to draw a completely different car for the brochure?

My issue with the Juke is that it's a massive car with a tiny amount of room inside. People think it's a 'lot of car for the money' - if I spent a million quid on manure I'd get VFM but at the end of the day I'd still be left with a pile of shit.

 

The dashboard looked like a 'Noughties Nokia and the gearbox on the one I tried was horribly noisy. Rearward visibility was appalling.

It has all the drawbacks of an off roader with none of the advantages - it couldn't go off-road.

At least the Qashqai had reasonable off road ability insofar as it would get out of a muddy car park, more than the Audi Qs and BMW Xs of this world could manage. I got a Qashqai bogged up to its axles at Beaulieu one year and it pulled itself out in second.

 

Then again, I'm applying rationale none of the Juke's target audience would consider - and say what you want about Nissan, it knows its market.

The Qashqai is probably more British than the MG6, come to think of it.

The girl I borrowed the Juke from was a bit horrified I didn't like it; when asked why she liked it, she said: "The mirrors fold in by themselves and I can see above the traffic when I'm driving it. It also has Bluetooth."

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It's no worse than any other budget car - in fact most budget brands are either going premium (Hyundai, Kia) or specialise in little cars (Dacia) so there was room for a cheap family car.

Their reputation seems to have killed them off though, nobody (apart from anyone trying to sell one) has got a nice word about them. The MG Forums are full of people putting up with shit such as random FTPs, trim falling off and build quality but still claiming to be happy.

 

I would have considered one as a company car (as in looked after). They seemed a bit of a liability to own privately. 

 

You should see what owners of the premium pile of shit brand Mercedes-Benz put up with and still hail that miserable tosh as the epitome of all godsends.

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The girl I borrowed the Juke from was a bit horrified I didn't like it; when asked why she liked it, she said: "The mirrors fold in by themselves and I can see above the traffic when I'm driving it. It also has Bluetooth."

 

Well there's my top three reasons for liking it ticked off.

 

Seriously though, they delivered it when they took away a Polo hire car, and before they delivered a Peugeot 2008 that was my long-term car. So to that sort of "get in and drive" demographic, it was nice - there was satnav, there were buttons that did stuff such as give the engine a bit more oomph or some more economy, it was tall and comfy, the engine didn't crap itself in nearly 1000 miles, the boot was big enough and the kids could get in the back.

 

At no point did I get in and go "wow, this is bloody lovely!" since it's no more desirable than a dishwasher, but it wasn't terrible. It was hugely better than the 30-mile old Polo they gave me that was gutless, cramped and plasticky which is why I have fond memories of it. I liked the tallness, it means you're slightly out of eyeline when you're staring at women in traffic jams so they don't notice as much.

 

If I were locked in a basement by a madman who kept poking things in my eyes, and then suddenly one day he locked me in a room with a window and stopped poking my eyes, that would be better and I would consider that a good day.

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Oh, and weirdly - I saw a GS on the motorway today. 

 

I figured it had been bought by someone who aspires to have an X3, as it spent about three miles in the outside lane with nothing at all to overtake. It wasn't gopping from the back though, it actually looked tidy. On a scale of Ssannyong Rexton to 10, it was about a 6.

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The girl I borrowed the Juke from was a bit horrified I didn't like it; when asked why she liked it, she said: "The mirrors fold in by themselves and I can see above the traffic when I'm driving it. It also has Bluetooth."

That just says it all. It is the type of car that, much like the Fiat 500 and the Mini Countryman, appeals to the kind of person who believes that the MOT they get every year counts as a service.

 

As such, I would never buy one of these second hand (or new for that matter).

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Shirley, as someone has already said, these are the new embodiment of AUTOSHITE.

 

1) they're a bit shit/bland looking

2) They've sold not-a-lot.

3) Too expensive to initially purchase

4) Massive depreciation

5) They drink too much and kill kittenz and nunz with emissions

6) Invariably will either have been driven by pissed off reps whose fleet manager has some kind of death-wish, or by people who have no interest and only see the headline figures....£150pm or whatever for a NEW CAR INNIT.

 

I'd have one. But I'm special.

 

 

Oh, and what Dugong said about the Nissan Juke.... yep, bang on squire. we looked at them before purchasing Fatha_Outlaw's B-Max.... unless you are either 5 years old, or a contortionist, the access to the back seats is shite - the classic example of style* over substance, the wheelarches encroach on the door aperture making getting in a massive ballache - possibly literally.

 

And it's as dark as Eeyore's bumhole inside too. 

 

One thing in it's favour perversly IS the styling. Whilst it makes it impractical and everything, at least it looks different, love it or hate it.  And the Billy-boy racer version ( Nismo?) looks quite smart.

 

just my twopenneth

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