The MG4 EV is a triple award winner within the newly-refreshed Parkers New Automotive Awards 2024.

With the share for EVs now approaching 20% of the UK new-car market, electrical automobiles are starting to achieve a vital mass.

The most effective household automotive proper now’s the all-electric MG4 EV. Not solely has it claimed the outright Parkers Automotive of The Yr award, however it has additionally taken house the gongs within the hard-fought Finest Small Household Automotive and Finest Worth Automotive classes. This trio of accolades celebrates the MG’s unrivalled mixture of worth, efficiency, vary and practicality.

It truly is an impressive providing. Inside, there’s greater than sufficient room for a median household, with a well-sized boot and house for 4. Construct high quality is superb contemplating the value and it’s extremely straightforward to stay with. The MG 4 has bodily shortcut buttons for the infotainment system, which suggests drivers aren’t relentlessly poking on the display to do one thing as mundane as change the temperature of the air-conditioning.

On the highway, the MG4 EV makes an much more convincing case for itself. Round city, it’s snug and simple to drive. Nonetheless, it additionally satisfies the calls for of eager drivers because of its well-weighted steering, wonderful brakes and vigorous efficiency. You actually do get one of the best of each worlds right here.

Alan Taylor-Jones, new automobiles editor of Parkers, stated: ‘Usually, we provide loads of caveats when recommending MGs, however the MG4 is a genuinely wonderful electrical hatchback at a worth that’s barely plausible. It’s additionally nice to drive, balancing dealing with and luxury expertly – and vary and effectivity are each precisely the place they should be.’

For the reason that first Parkers New Automotive Awards in 2017, the showroom alternative has leapt eightfold. Again then, 132 EV make/mannequin/spec variations have been on sale in Britain, and that quantity has jumped to 1,026 in November 2023. This explosion in alternative made Parkers’ judges think about the time is true to mix all fuels, and base the awards on a automotive’s bodily dimension, and never what powers it.

Keith Adams, editor of Parkers, added: ‘Taking the highest honours within the Parkers New Automotive Awards 2024 is a exceptional achievement for MG. It is nice to see the model going from power to power underneath its present homeowners.’

Reflecting this normalisation of electrical automobiles, the Kia EV6 and BMW i7 be part of the MG4 EV in being the primary electrical winners on Parkers’ new degree enjoying discipline. Now that EVs not have their very own particular classes, any profitable battery automotive have to be a real class chief as a result of it additionally should topple its combustion-powered rivals.

A notable repeat winner from final yr’s awards is the stellar Honda Civic. It gained the outright Parkers Automotive of The Yr award in 2023 and has now claimed the Finest Medium Household Automotive prize for 2024. The Skoda Fabia returns as Finest First Automotive, whereas the exceptional Alpine A110 retains its place because the Finest Enjoyable Automotive. The Volkswagen Multivan can be the Parkers Finest Seven-Seater for the second yr working.

There’s a brand new winner within the form of the Tesla Mannequin Y within the Finest Firm Automotive class. Nonetheless, Ford returns to the podium with the Mk6 Fiesta (2008–2017), taking house the spoils within the Finest Used Automotive class.

Keith Adams stated: ‘The tide of electrification is unstoppable, even when the federal government has confused the state of affairs by shifting the petrol- and diesel-powered automotive ban from 2030 to 2035. Carmakers are doing their half by launching some wonderful new fashions, however there’s nonetheless a whole lot of work to do on the UK’s public charging infrastructure if EVs are ever going to neatly assimilate into our lives.’

He continued: ‘New charger rollouts are gaining tempo, however they nonetheless lag behind the acceleration of electrical automotive gross sales – and that compromises the day-to-day usefulness of battery-powered automobiles. There’s additionally little benefit by way of gasoline prices if you happen to depend on costly public chargers. The largest concern I’ve is the excessive value to purchase an EV. However the MG4 EV exhibits that value reductions may be handed on to the patron. Others have to comply with swimsuit.

Parkers has been on the facet of automotive consumers for greater than half a century and we’re conscious of the macro-economic challenges going through drivers proper now. As such, we expect it’s the precise time to suggest an reasonably priced, enjoyable and eco-friendly automotive just like the MG4 EV. Right here’s hoping we have now extra to select from subsequent yr.’