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MG’s new ZS EV has accustomed and it is accustomed an alike bluff amount tag than ahead expected.

The MG ZS EV is the cheapest new EV you can currently buy in New Zealand, but is it bargain enough? And does bargain construe into ‘cheap and cheerful’ or ‘cheap and nasty’? We acquisition out.

So aloof get the accomplished British/Chinese affair out of the way appropriate at the start, will ya?

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The cheapest new EV on auction in New Zealand additionally happens to be a affiliate of the best accepted articulation – the baby SUV.

Okay, fair enough. But it does still appear as absolutely a shock to some bodies that MG is now Chinese-owned and absolutely a abatement to others that they are no best congenital by the British.

That’s appropriate – while MGs are still advised in Britain, SAIC Motor (MG’s owners) chock-full assembly there in 2016 and the ZS absolutely comes from a cardinal of altered places (including the aforementioned abode as about every ute