I still have the brake pads that were on the car when I bought it, 44,500 miles ago. And they were not new then.
The more I research the MG5, the more I like it. Robert Llewellyn likes it too but says that the more you drive it, the more you find it's little "foibles". Like not a big enough area for fitting a UK number plate. However, he says none of that affects the use and practicality of the car.
"People" look at it and say, but it is a "Chinese" car. As I said earlier, the same was said about the Kia and Hyundai.
And when Japanese cars started to be sold in the UK, they were all labelled "Jap crap". Don't hear that description these days.