MG Motor UK HS (2018-2024) review

The nicest way we can put it is that it feels more premium in here than the price would suggest. And there’s plenty of common sense employed too.

You get a good-sized steering wheel complete with regular buttons, comfortable seating (though we found the fronts too high for our liking), space for four adults, high-quality feeling materials (including leather dash and soft-touch doorcards), chrome detailing throughout, those particularly eye-catching turbine design air vents, and more.

What’s the tech like?

The instrument cluster is fully digital with the speedo and power percentage permanently displayed on the left and right respectively, and the middle can be customised to show info such as economy, power source and tyre pressures etc. 

In the centre of the dash sits a 10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system, which, while nothing special visually, works well enough and is compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

While the climate controls are buried in the touchscreen, it’s not quite as difficult to navigate as some of the HS's competitors thanks to a handy row of shortcut buttons (think home, volume, front/rear demisters) sitting just underneath. Plus two USB ports.

You'll find two more USBs in the rear as well, and there's a foldout arm rest that opens to reveal more storage space and twin cup holders. Neat.

Speaking of storage space…

The standard petrol model gets 463 litres of boot space seats up and 1,454 seats down, while the plug-in hybrid variant gets slightly less at 448/1,375 litres respectively on account of the battery under the boot floor.

The hybrid’s boot is noticeably shallow as a result too, with the floor parallel with the boot lip and just a small (and we mean small) space underneath for any charging cables.

To give you some perspective, that makes it less practical than the Nissan Qashqai, Seat Ateca, Vauxhall Grandland, Peugeot 3008, Skoda Karoq and Kia Sportage. Ouch.