MG is adding a new pick-up to its delivery range. It’s about the T90, a practical workhorse that is less new than you might think.
Striking news from China. Maxus, which, like MG, is one of the brands of the Chinese SAIC Motor, is expanding its delivery range with the T90. The T90 is a pick-up presented as a new model, but which is in fact a sharpened version of the T70 where it is positioned above.
Let’s go back to the T70. The T70 is a Maxus pick-up that served as the basis for the MG Extender, basically a T70 with MG logos sold by SAIC Motor in Thailand. That MG Extender was recently renewed and was given a fierce front with a very prominent fence at the front. Maxus itself is now also getting a pick-up with that front from SAIC Motor, but strangely enough, that car is not put on the market as the renewed T70. No, Maxus chooses to position what should actually be the renewed T70 above the original. The ‘renewed T70’ is called T90 and looks like two drops of water on the renewed MG Extender, as expected.
Maxus T90
Just like the T70 and the MG Extender, the T90 is available as a Double Cab with four doors and as an extended cab with small ‘suicide doors’ at the rear. The Double Cab is 5.7 meters long, the version with shorter rear doors extends over a distance of 5.4 meters. The interior of the T90 is completely different from that of the T70. The dashboard now has two large, digital displays that are visually fused into a black panel. The instrumentation is 10.25 inches in size, the infotainment screen has a diameter of 12 inches. The T90 is available in China with the 218 hp and 500 Nm strong twin turbo 2.0 diesel engine, a machine that is not available in the T70. In addition, a 2.0 diesel with one turbo is available, an engine that delivers 163 hp and 400 Nm.
At a later stage there will be a fully electric version of the T90, a car that on paper would of course also be interesting for the Dutch market. This electric variant has a 177 hp and 310 Nm strong electric motor and, according to its creators, squeezes 535 (NEDC) kilometers from its 89 kWh battery pack. Will Maxus bring that electric pick-up to our country? Nothing is known about this yet. Would a relatively affordable electric pick-up be an addition to the Dutch commercial vehicle market? Let us know in the comments.