SPY PICS: MG LS6 spotted in Melbourne

A mildly camouflaged 2025 MG LS6 has been spied on Victorian roads looking all but ready to hit local showrooms. 

Spotted by a carsales staff member in Melbourne’s inner west, the LS6 was first sighted charging up Ascot Vale before hitting the streets wearing just a few strips of subtle camouflage around its nose and over the rear badging. 

Officially sold in its native market as the IM LS6, the electric medium SUV is tipped to be rebadged and sold in Australia as an MG, which, like IM Motors, is a subsidiary of Chinese auto giant SAIC Motor. 

IM Motors is SAIC’s premium vehicle brand, as Lexus is to Toyota, for example.  

But whether the LS6 will wear an MG badge or come in under a new, more luxurious sub-brand is unclear. 

Either way, we won’t have to wait too much longer to find out because it’ll almost certainly launch later this year as one of more than eight new models promised by MG in 2025. 

We drove both the related IM L7 sedan in China in 2023 – another model expected to arrive in Oz this year – and came away impressed by its outright speed, as well as its luxurious tech, but ambivalent towards its augmented V8 soundtrack.

The LS6 is offered with several powertrain options in China, including a 216kW/450Nm rear-wheel drive entry-level system 0-100km/h sprint in around 6.4 seconds, and a flagship dual-motor set-up developing a whopping 579kW/800Nm, said to be good for a 0-100km/h sprint of 3.5 seconds. 

Battery capacities include 75kWh, 83kWh, and 100kWh options, offering driving ranges of between 625km and 802km against the lenient CLTC standard.

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