MG ZS (2017 to 2024)

Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6.8 / 10
“The ZS competes with much better-known rivals and beats them in terms of interior space, its budget price and its warranty. Less impressive are the powertrains that provide only adequate performance.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6 / 10
“The MG ZS struggles to compete head-on in the small SUV segment, but few serious flaws and value pricing mean it’s still worth a look.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 7 / 10
“In many ways, the MG ZS doesn’t trouble the best small SUVs on the market, because it’s behind the curve on quality, safety, efficiency and dynamic polish, but it’s not without its merits. It looks good, gives you lots of interior space and delivers a comfortable ride. Best of all, it’s a good bit cheaper than its rivals. If you’re after style on a budget, it’s certainly worthy of your consideration.”
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Model reviewed: Exclusive 1.0T automatic
“Britain’s best affordable driver’s car was suitably impressive and reflected well on its maker.”
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Model reviewed: (range review)
Score: 6 / 10
“The ZS isn’t about to dethrone the best in the crossover class, but if value and affordability are your priorities, it’s certainly worthy of consideration.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 4 / 10
“The MG ZS is an undeniably cheap car and MG should be applauded for going headfirst into such a fiercely-contested sector of the market. However, while the ZS’s cash price is a few thousand pounds less than its rivals’, it is a few thousand pounds less car.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6 / 10
“While the MG ZS may not be particularly desirable or good to drive, it offers something that many manufacturers seem to have forgotten about – value. With prices starting from just £12,495, coupled with zero per cent finance deals and a seven-year, 80,000-mile warranty, if you are after a cheap, practical and no-frills car, the ZS is hard to ignore.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6 / 10
“The attractive MG ZS offers low-cost SUV practicality, but not much in the way of driving fun.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 5 / 10
“The MG ZS is an inexpensive small family SUV with a spacious interior and a large, practical boot – but it doesn’t have much modern safety technology and there’s no diesel option.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 4 / 10
“The MG ZS is a budget SUV designed to deliver Nissan Qashqai-style space and equipment at a much lower price. Sadly that low price means corners have had to be cut and this soon becomes evident if you spend any time with the MG ZS.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6 / 10
“It’s a shame the MG ZS falls so behind in terms of how it drives, because everything else is acceptable for the money. The interior feels dated but is least practical. In truth, the better residual values of rivals means the MG ZS won’t make sense for a lot of crossover buyers.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
“We can’t think of any area in which the MG ZS betters its Korean rival, the SsangYong Tivoli, which makes it a very difficult car to recommend.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 5 / 10
“Cheap, practical small SUV does little to shine over rivals”
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Model reviewed: 1.0-litre petrol manual Excite
“I wasn’t expecting much from this car. The MG3 supermini is a plastic turd inside and the GS SUV, while better inside, looks like a plastic turd outside. The ZS is night and day in comparison. MG is still cheap – but not cheap, if you get me.”
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Model reviewed: (range review)
Score: 8 / 10
“Were it not for a mediocre three-star Euro NCAP safety rating, the MG ZS might just swing a full five stars. In most areas, it performs far in excess of any reasonable expectation you might have of it based on its price. It rides pretty well, it’s great fun to drive, it’s very roomy and it’s well equipped.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 5 / 10
“It’s encouraging MG has sorted out its design both inside and out in a short space of time, and maintained chuckable, entertaining handling, but there’s not the bargain charm of a Dacia Duster here, nor the sophistication of more rivals which will be more pleasant to drive every day.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 6 / 10
“The MG ZS is keenly priced but its poor driving experience and three-star Euro NCAP safety rating leave it trailing.”
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