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Guided by ‘MG David’ (David Allison, Head of Product and Planning at MG Motor UK Ltd), the team liaised closely with HQ in China, culminating in a handful of successive development cars being sent over here, for testing, refinement and development.
For not only does MG UK have its UK HQ in London at Marylebone Road, it transpires that during the years-long development of the car, it spent extensive miles being evaluated and fine-tuned on a variety of different UK roads.
Having debuted the ZS Hybrid+ last year, this year MG UK is focusing more closely on its EV range of cars, with two new models coming to market.
Some of this can be done in computer/bench simulations (and had to be, during Covid, at times) but, as Allison says: “The roads are a lot different here - there’s no substitute for driving in a real road environment”, resulting in myriad changes to the new car, many of them facilitated by software tweaks.
It’s no coincidence that MG’s latest ZS, the value-for-money Hybrid+ rides so well over London’s potholes, its proliferating speed ramps, its broken road surfaces; it was - at least in part - developed here.
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