MG HS

This is the catalogue record of the MG HS, one of 12 models MG Motor has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2018. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the MG HS properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the MG HS reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L GM Small Gasoline Engine / SGE LFV turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5 L GM Small Gasoline Engine / SGE LYX TGI Flexible-fuel vehicle / FFV I4 tur; kerb weight is recorded at 1523-1775 kg; drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Dual-clutch transmission / DCT / 7-speed Sportronic Dual-clutch transmission / DCT / 10-speed EDU II automatic (6-speed engine and 4-; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the MG Motor story

Within MG Motor's own catalogue the MG HS sits alongside the MG 350, the MG 6, the MG Cyberster, the MG E-Motion. The record names the MG GS as its predecessor and the engine = Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L GM Small Gasoline Engine / SGE LFV turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5 L GM Small Gasoline Engine / SGE LYX TGI Flexible-fuel vehicle / F as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Anthony Williams-Kenny. Assembly is recorded at class = Compact crossover SUV.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the MG HS was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.