Should Tesla, Volvo and Polestar be worried? 2024 MG4 X-Power electric car arriving with big outputs and low pricing

MG Australia confirmed just weeks ago that its hotted-up MG4 X-Power will arrive in Australia within the coming weeks, while also revealing its rather sharp pricing, undercutting popular rivals.

The local arm of the Chinese car brand has “fast-tracked” demonstrators and pre-order vehicles so that customer cars from early pre-orders will start arriving by the end of October, of which there is little more than a week left of at time of writing.

With pricing for the X-Power set at $59,990 before on-road costs, the electric car cements itself as the best-value EV if outputs are your main focus.

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This is due to a claimed 320kW/600Nm drivetrain consisting of front and rear motors driving all four wheels, which MG claims allows a 0-100km/h sprint of 3.8 seconds.

Its dual-motor setup consists of a 150kW front and 170kW rear motor, which is interesting as total output claims for electric cars aren’t always listed as a total of the output of each motor. Specifically, MG claims the X-Power is capable of “up to 320kW of peak performance to all four wheels”.

While MG Australia and New Zealand CEO Peter Ciao calls it “supercar performance”, it’s better compared with the likes of the Volvo EX30 Twin Motor Performance Ultra, which boasts 315kW and 543Nm from its dual-motor setup for $69,990, or $10k more than the MG4.

One of the country’s most popular electric cars, the Tesla Model 3, is available in its closest specification as the Long Range AWD, offering up 307kW and 510Nm at $17,900 according to the brand’s ever-changing website.

MG claims the X-Power has a 0-100km/h sprint of 3.8 seconds.

The Polestar 2 is available in a similar Long Range Dual Motor variant with 310kW and a huge 740Nm at its disposal, though its $76,400 pricing is starting to get away from the MG4 X-Power’s $59,990.

The MG4 comes with some performance-focused features like a locking electronic differential and torque vectoring between all four wheels, as well as “recalibrated spring and damper tuning, stiffer anti-roll bars and sharper steering”.

It can recharge at up to 140kW, meaning its 64kWh battery can be topped up from 10 per cent to 80 per cent in 26 minutes.