IF YOU’VE BEEN keeping tabs on the MG 4 X-Power, you might be aware of one rather controversial addition to the Chinese-made, British-badged 320kW all-paw hatchback: bright orange clip-on caliper covers straight off wish.com, described as “orange ‘X-POWER’ brake calipers”.
For the hot-hatch purist, this kind of peacocking is the absolute antithesis of the genre, but should a vehicle be judged entirely on one marketing choice? Absolutely not.
The X-Power could be a diamond, especially given the praise that’s been heaped on the regular MG 4. Plus, the X-Power is good value. If you’d told us 10 years ago that an electric hot hatch would be able to sprint from rest to licence losing speeds in 3.8 seconds, all for $59,990 (before on-road costs), and without sacrificing niceties such as a 10.25-inch touchscreen with smartphone mirroring, we’d have
