The MG S5 isn’t the most exciting car that the Chinese automaker has brought to Western markets in recent months, but it is probably the brand’s most important. Built to be electric from the ground up, the new SUV adds a bunch of quality-of-life improvements atop the MG4’s foundations and feels like a worthwhile attempt at shooting for mass-market appeal – or at least moreso than with the company’s massively successful hatchback, the gorgeous Cyberster roadster.
The S5 is also important for another couple of reasons – this is a car that replaces MG’s first electric model, the ZS EV, while being powered by the very same technology underpinning one of my favourite EVs, the MG4. That makes this otherwise innocuous electric SUV quite interesting, particularly to see if MG has managed to inject the S5 with the same shot of excitement that made the MG4 such a blockbuster.
