Picking up on Coab's valuable points, a friend in the trade said he went to an MG presentation recently on one of the new MG models and almost everything was technical and not straightforward to access, plus you have to plug into a computer to get many parts to be accepted by the car...and a new fuel filter as a part of your service is £200 sir! That said, it's a competitively priced new car and will depreciate quickly [perhaps more so in current times], so the philosophy appears to be "go for your new/recent car with a PCP deal and change it for another in 3 years time before the big bills roll in".
Looking at it from the other end, you could run a classic with no computer and little depreciation [normally] but with occasional manageable bills hopefully.But you are likely to need something modern for long trips or use the train or hire a car.
The 75/ZT is somewhere in the middle of this, despite the technology on the car, and there is the expertise in this club to resolve virtually all the problems apart from cars written off with severe crash damage.And, if you keep on top of the jobs, it helps to solve the reliable low cost local and long distance transport.
Nonetheless I didn't realise that, after replacing a rear brake light this week, the light on the display staying on was not telling me the fault was still there, but it would go off after driving a short distance as the Computer reassessed the new bulb fitted!
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