MG4 EV 2026: Electric hatch gets an upmarket refresh and a big price drop for go-fast XPower AWD  MG4 EV 2026: Electric hatch gets an upmarket refresh and a big price drop for go-fast XPower AWD 

Three years after its local originate, the electric MG4 fluctuate has been consolidated from 5 to correct two variants, bringing a welcome interior revamp, revised tech and sharper pricing, including a giant haircut for the lunge-like a flash dual-motor XPower variant.

The stale entry-level Excite neat level has been axed, leaving the erstwhile high-spec Essence as basically the most attention-grabbing rear-drive option on offer for MY26.

Similarly, each and every the identical old 51kWh and high-spec 77kWh had been turfed, of course consolidating four-single-motor variants right into a sole Essence 64 rear-drive preference at $39,990 driveaway, or six gargantuan more affordable than that identical model was in MY25 guise ($forty five,990 D/A).

Even if more affordable in designate, the MY26 Essence 64 now mates a 140kW and 350Nm electric motor to its 64kWh LFP battery – was 150kW/250Nm in outgoing neat – yielding a claimed WLTP fluctuate height of 452km (plays 450km within the stale model).

The dual-motor XPower returns because the 2d variant preference, priced from $47,990 driveaway, eight gargantuan extra practical than the outgoing MY25 spec ($55,990 D/A).

For MY26, the XPower stats are unchanged for energy and torque, with carryover 150kW/250Nm entrance and 170kW/350Nm rear motors totalling 320kW and 600Nm blended, with a acquainted 64kWh battery, even supposing height fluctuate looks boosted from 385km to 405km within the contemporary mannequin-year replace.

The dual-motor pocket rocket is alleged to hit 100km/h from a standstill in 3.8 seconds.

Basically the most conspicuous revamp for MY26 is the contemporary “top rate interior” remake, addressing criticisms of the stale MG4 with unique beget lifted from the extra upmarket S5 (and quickly-to-originate S6) evident in elevated-quality materials and revised individual interface, including improvements such as a switch to bodily buttons for the HVAC intention.

Original interior aspects contain a unique 10.25-poke digital driver’s display, a high-definition 12.8-poke media touchscreen with “card-style” structure, and extra constructed in aspects such as sat-nav, app integration facility (TikTok, YouTube, et al) and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for every and every variants.

The designate-adjusted and extra upmarket rear- and all-wheel-drive ‘MG4 EV’ line-up is complimented by the now not too long ago launched entrance-drive MG4 Urban, which now effectively sits because the extra practical (from $31,990 D/A) and smaller entry rate MG’s electric hatchback stable.

Form Mannequin three hundred and sixty five days: costs in Australia

All costs listed are driveaway.

●      Essence 64 (RWD): $39,990

●      XPower (AWD): $47,990