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Polo will be easy to get in and out of.Plus: steel wheels, Fisker Ocean ownership, Ferrari Luce opinions, electric motorcycles and your suggestions for the ultimate EV group test.Send your questions to podcast@electrifying.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information."},"annotations":[{"id":494814,"startTime":180.8,"endTime":209.6,"type":"car","title":"MG Go concept","url":"/cars/mg/go","quote":"The one thing that did survive was the MG, the MG Go concept which we kind of knew nothing about we got our little heads up like a couple of nights before hadn't we that there was going to be something there and I think it looks terrific it's a little kind of car that's going to sit below MG3","canonicalId":"car:mg:go","priority":0.65,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The MG Go concept is a concept car from MG, shown at a major UK-style automotive event. 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