2025 MG ZS Hybrid review: 0-100 & POV test drive

[@jonathongellibrand3632]

the paint finish looks about a thousand times better than our $220k BMW...

[@gort3969]

Is the 0-100 8.02 seconds with or without the spider 🤔

[@nicholasmatthews5989]

Thanks for the review. What I find very interesting is that although it is an all new model with lots of features, strangely it only has tilt adjustment steering, does not have reach adjustment. A big miss for a new car.

[@nicholasmatthews5989]

1:04 "...braking performance is not the best...". Maybe that is being too kind, being 45.38 metres for an SUV of its size is absolutely woeful. That is a huge negative. The Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid does 40.71 metres.

[@drivingenthusiastaustralia]

@@nicholasmatthews5989 It’s not good. I usually see that sort of distance from all-terrain tyres.

[@User-cb4jm]

5m - so one car length difference. Feels like within a margin of error?

[@mahcooharper9577]

​@@User-cb4jm no. And the way braking distance works, most of the speed comes off at the end. That's a very poor performance.

[@nicholasmatthews5989]

@@drivingenthusiastaustralia From looking at your 2024 Mitsubishi Triton GLS test, which has all-terrain tyres, the 2.125 tonne dual cab ute achieved better than the MG, doing 42.15 metres. Another hybrid that you have tested was the 2024 GWM Haval Jolion Hybrid, and that was pretty good, being under 40 metres, at 39.56 metres.

[@joewhite8079]

​@User-cb4jm 5m where the 30km/h- 0 is done the difference between shunting someone up the arse at 30 or not colliding at all and continuing about your day.

[@TheAlexantube]

@DrivingEnthusiast - great video like always - what is the small '2' icon in the lower centre rigt hand side of the cluster? Ive driven a few of the current toyota hybrids quite extensively for work, they seem to always retain sufficient charge level so that theres never any noticeable performance difference between low and high charge levels, surely MG could do a software update to the same effect? Have you noticed any significant performance drop with the Toyotas on a lower battery? Your acceleration testing is pretty much top tier amongst Aussie journos/media and a real stand out - as we get more HEVs and PHEVs in our market, i really think making a point to test them all with a high and low battery SOC, then posting any performance difference, would be a really useful idea...

[@nicholasmatthews5989]

@TheAlexantube , Regarding 5:34, my understanding is that the MG ZS Hybrid has 3 Energy Regeneration Modes (1,2,3), thereby the small '2' is that it is in No.2 regeneration mode.

[@wheresmycheese8511]

If you hit a slight hill with the cruise control on it'll all of a sudden start revving to 5000rpm and struggle to get up the hill

[@diwat123]

Could you describe exactly how did you empty the battery?

[@drivingenthusiastaustralia]

@@diwat123 It was empty after 2 acceleration runs.

[@mrx168]

So it’s either slightly faster than an old Camry or slower than that base spec 1.9 Isuzu Ute… 🤷🏻‍♂️ At least it offers the car in green, while almost all the mainstream brands are doing only black white sliver and different shades if grey…

[@mahcooharper9577]

Seriously, why are they allowed to sell a car that doesn't respond consistently when you floor the throttle? Downright dangerous. Not to mention the brakes. It doesnt matter how cheap it is or whether the CarPlay works. That is absolutely unacceptable. I really hope that's an Australian spider too, we don't need to be bringing in insects from overseas and if that thing only has 1000km on it there hasn't been much chance for it to get in there...

[@bazinga615]

Poor fuel economy. Toyota hybrids are significantly better and makes the break even faster

[@ukrytykrytyk8477]

They are more efficient and about 30-40% more expensive, depending on the market.

[@YZJB]

What a terrible car. Why do so many people fall for these horrible things? Dangerously inconsistent acceleration, woeful braking, just horrible in every way.

[@mrkring1526]

What a dangerous shitbox. The fact that the acceleration is dependent on how much battery is absolutely terrible engineering

[@diwat123]

@@mrkring1526 it applies to all the hybrids, not just MG

[@YZJB]

@@diwat123no it doesn’t. As Brett has said plenty of times, you can do back-to-back acceleration runs with a Toyota hybrid with no loss of acceleration. These MGs are dangerous.

[@mexicanbatman666]

@@diwat123no The GM Volt released in 2102 did not suffer this issue, once battery for EV was depleted and you were in parallel hybrid mode the acceleration was identical to fully charged EV mode, MG are just shitty Temu Chinese engineering

[@diwat123]

Just search in Google more about hybrid power loss. It affects multiple of not all hybrids, including Toyota. The power of hybrids is a sum of the power of combustion engine and electric one. If battery is out then ICE has to do all the work. But it is a seldom case while driving in an overly dynamic manner. Car manufacturers try to avoid it by software setup, but it cannot be avoided fully. MG knows the case reported first at CarSauce YT channel and has announced a fix that will reduce/eliminate this. But if you are not giving the battery any chance to recharge then the car will lose the performance. How the battery could recharge itself if driven several times 0-100 and hard breaking? When accelerating fast it uses up the battery, hard breaking does not allow for regen.

[@User-cb4jm]

They need to software update it ASAP to work like a Toyota hybrid. Why try to reinvent the wheel, surely make it work like the best in class.

[@michaeldouaihy7200]

I think I fell asleep waiting for it to get to 100kph. Absolute piece of shit.