MG3, after disappointing Euro NCAP tests in the UK come first recalls

After the EuroNCAP tests last September, the time has come for MG3 to move from words to deeds, at least in the United Kingdom, which is ideally the country of origin of the English brand of the Chinese Saic group. The aim is clear: to ensure that the entire protection system continues to function even when the car is subjected to particularly violent shocks.

In the UK, the issue has already had concrete effects. The local road safety authority, the DVSA, has launched a recall campaign affecting around two thousand MG 3s assembled between April 2024 and August 2025. The measure affects both full hybrid versions and those with a conventional petrol engine.

In Italy, on the contrary, everything is silent: at the moment there is no official communication from the Italian MG subsidiary. This does not mean, however, that we are sitting on our hands waiting for MG Italia to make itself heard. Owners of an MG 3 can check for themselves whether their car is covered by any recall campaigns by entering the chassis number in the public database, available on the UNRAE website: the service is free of charge and takes just a few minutes.

Meanwhile, even EuroNCAP has acknowledged that the episode highlights a limitation of the current rules. Today's criteria can lead to inconsistent results, as this case shows. This is why the body has already announced a review of the assessment procedures from 2026 onwards, so that similar problems do not affect the final safety verdict.

As a matter of fact, tests carried out six months ago by Euro NCAP showed that during the frontal collision with an offset, a criticality emerged in the system that fixes the driver's seat: the support gave way, allowing the seat to move and rotate partly at the moment of impact. According to Euro NCAP, a similar defect in the seat adjustment system had never before been found in Euro NCAP tests, which have assessed hundreds of passenger vehicles since it began work in 1997