Is the MG MG5 EV reliable?
The MG5 performed well in the 2025 What Car? Reliability Survey, finishing in seventh place out of 20 electric cars with a good overall score of 94. That places it above the Cupra Born, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and MG4, but below the BMW i4 and Nissan Leaf. As a brand, MG did much worse. In a world of five-star becoming standard, what actually makes the MG5 a zero-star car is down to tech as much as crash protection. ANCAP publishes a detailed report on the base model it tested, noting MG5’s lack of driver monitoring, lane support, speed limit information and child presence detection, among others.