MG S6 EV already driven: Finally there are buttons again!
With the S6 EV, MG now has a new top-of-the-range SUV. It will worry the current competition: Usual low price, usual good quality and finally less touchscreen.
If journalists run out of words, it may be bad for the editor. But it's a good sign for the car. We call it the «Skoda effect»: if a car can do everything equally well, it is more difficult to package in phrases than a car of extremes. We feel the same way about the new top SUV from MG, once a British and now a Chinese brand: the S6 EV is so well-balanced that you might well find it boring. But we don't, because: It fits perfectly in everyday driving.
MG has already established itself
What is the MG S6 EV (which MG itself spells MGS6 EV without the spacing, so that Audi doesn't grumble about the S6)? A very typical family SUV in a very typical format à la VW Tiguan, 4.71 meters long, with or without all-wheel drive and always electric. It should further increase MG's market share, as the brand is already the most successful newcomer from China in percentage terms and is already on a par with the Mini or Suzuki. Three more new models will follow in 2026 alone and there will be 35 instead of 26 dealers (tip for garages: MG is still looking for partners). «Our target for the S6 EV this year is 500 vehicles,» reveals Nicole Sahlmann, Head of Brand MG Switzerland at importer Astara, «we are thinking of families, active people and fleet customers.» Let's take a test drive.
Balance is the trump card
The S6 EV has supple suspension, steers and corners willingly and is fun enough and never annoying. The 180 kW/244 hp electric motor, or an impressive 266 kW/361 hp in the 4×4 we drove, is fast, spontaneous, silky and quiet. The seats are tip-top, the cockpit is more sophisticated than in some German premium products. Everything is of outstanding quality.
And: instead of just touchscreens, there are real buttons again for mirrors, lights, rear window heating and the like - thank you! Apart from the loud EU cruise control, the assistance is hardly annoying and therefore stays on - that's how it should be. If you do want to switch it off, just select the preset desired profile instead of scrolling through the screen forever. Please do the same.
Extremely fair price level
There is plenty of space in the rear and load compartment. Options? Metallic paint, 650 francs. That's it. The rest is included, even heated rear seats or head-up display. Expensive? No, very, very fair. The rear-wheel drive (530 kilometers WLTP standard range) 45,990, the all-wheel drive (485 kilometers) 48,990 francs. Or, since we mentioned Skoda at the beginning: an Enyaq costs over five and a half thousand more. Not even the range is bad: we drive through Aargau in the 4×4-MG, over mountain passes, a bit of highway, and the heating is on. Mathematically, we would still have covered 441 kilometers. And the 77-kWh battery is supposed to charge pretty quickly with up to 144 kW (38 minutes from 10 to 80 percent). We shrug our shoulders helplessly: What more can we say? All we can really say is good luck. Not MG. But to the competition.
