How much value does an MG lose in the UAE?

MG is one of the Chinese brands most visible on the UAE used market: our index holds 108 GCC-spec MGs from the 2025 model year alone³. The question people ask before buying one is what it will be worth when they sell it.

The used market gives a partial answer. Our index holds the active MG listings on Dubizzle, and for GCC-spec cars we can compare the median asking price of each model year. That is a snapshot of different cars of different ages on the same day, not one car followed over time. They are also asking prices, not sale prices, and a listing that disappears is not necessarily sold.

MG asking prices by model year, all models

This is the median asking price of GCC-spec MG cars of every model, on 7 October 2026.

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Two rows look wrong. The 2026 median of AED 51,000² sits below the 2025 median of AED 55,500³, and the 2021 median of AED 34,500⁷ sits above the 2022 one at AED 29,999⁶. Newer cars do not ask less than older ones of the same model. What changes is which models are listed in each year.

What the brand table mixes together

The 2026 listings include a large share of a model that asks less than the brand median. The MG3, a small hatchback, accounts for 18 of the 53 GCC-spec 2026 MGs^39,2, or 34%, against 16 of the 108 from 2025, or 15%^40,3. Its 2026 median is AED 39,000³⁹. Add the ZS and the two models make up 34 of the 53^13,39,2.

The 2025 median runs the other way. At AED 55,500³ it is above the 2025 median of the ZS, the GT and the MG3 (AED 42,500, AED 44,500 and AED 32,649^14,28,40) and below only that of the larger RX5 at AED 61,299³². The factsheet does not split out the other 2025 MGs, so models outside the tables below must also be holding the brand figure up.

The 2021 row rests on 12 listings⁷, just above our minimum of 10. A few well kept cars can move a median that thin, so we would not draw anything from it. The same caution applies to the other 12-listing medians further down^32,28,25.

So the brand-wide 2022 median, AED 29,999⁶, is about 54% of the 2025 one^3,6, but that ratio mixes two things. Part of it is age. Part is that the cars being compared are different models. The model tables below separate the two.

The ZS, model year by model year

The ZS is the only model in this study with five model years that each pass our 10-listing threshold, which makes it the longest series we can read.

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The steps get smaller as the car gets older. Between the 2026 and 2025 cars the median falls by AED 8,500^13,14, then by about AED 7,000 to the 2024 cars^14,15. After that the drops are AED 3,499^15,16 and AED 2,300^16,17. A 2024 ZS asks about 70% of the 2026 median^13,15, and a 2022 ZS about 58%^13,17.

In this snapshot, the first two steps account for AED 15,501 of the AED 21,300 gap between the 2026 and 2022 medians^13,15,17. After that the steps are smaller.

The other MG models

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Over the same two model years, 2025 to 2023, the RX5 loses more than the GT. A 2023 RX5 asks about 73% of the 2025 median^32,34, a drop of AED 16,300^32,34, while a 2023 GT keeps about 83%^28,30. The MG5 window is one year older (2024 to 2022), and it keeps about 81%^23,25, so it cannot be compared directly with the other two.

None of the three shows the ZS pattern of shrinking steps. The RX5 steps are AED 8,299 and AED 8,001^32,33,34, about the same size. The GT steps are AED 3,500 and AED 4,250^28,29,30, and the MG5 steps AED 2,400 and AED 2,599^23,24,25, each larger in the older year.

The MG5 numbers come with a gap. The newer years have too few GCC-spec listings for a median (2026 and 2025 are n/a, on 3 and 9 listings^21,22), so we cannot say what a nearly new MG5 asks or how much it loses in its first year.

The MG3 is too recent to conclude⁴². It has two publishable model years^39,40 and one 2024 listing⁴¹, which is not enough to describe a trend.

Several of these medians rest on 12 to 17 listings, such as the 2025 RX5 and GT (12 each)^32,28 and the 2024 RX5 and GT (17 each)^33,29. A handful of dealer cars at one price can move a median that small. The study also does not control for mileage, so the gaps mix age with use.

What this means if you are buying

The rule we would use: compare a used MG to the median for its own model and year, not to the brand average.

The brand figures move with the model mix^2,3, so only the model tables follow one type of car through its ages. On the ZS, a 2024 car at the median of AED 35,499¹⁵ has already taken AED 15,501 of the AED 21,300 gap to a 2022 one^13,15,17, and the steps further down the table are smaller^15,16,17. On the RX5, GT and MG5 the steps stay about the same size from one model year to the next, so in this snapshot an older car of those models keeps losing about as much each year^{32,33,34,28,29,30,23,24,25}.

In practice:

1. Open the model page for the car you are offered, such as the MG ZS, MG5, GT or RX5, and check the median for its year.
2. Put the asking price into the Check a seller’s price page, which adjusts for mileage when a model year has enough listings (the methodology page gives the threshold).
3. Open the running-costs page to see depreciation next to the running costs. A small loss in AED on a cheap car can still be a large share of what you paid.
4. If you are choosing between MG models, put them side by side in compare.
5. For other Chinese brands, start from our Chinese cars page, and watch the deals page for MGs listed under their model median.

For the MG3, the data cannot answer the question yet⁴².

How we measured

We used every active GCC-spec MG listing in our Dubizzle index on 7 October 2026, priced within our standard price range. For each model year we took the median asking price, and we only publish a median when a model year has at least 10 listings (the n/a rows, such as¹ and²², fall below that). The brand figures for the 2026 to 2020 model years rest on 53², 108³, 124⁴, 127⁵, 59⁶, 12⁷ and 13⁸ listings. The ZS figures rest on 16¹³, 13¹⁴, 33¹⁵, 19¹⁶ and 16¹⁷ listings, the RX5 on 12³², 17³³ and 15³⁴, the GT on 12²⁸, 17²⁹ and 20³⁰, the MG5 on 14²³, 33²⁴ and 12²⁵, and the MG3 on 18³⁹ and 16⁴⁰. Percentages, shares and AED differences in the text are calculated from the figures cited next to them.

These are asking prices, not sale prices, and a listing that disappears is not necessarily sold. The full method, including how we filter specs and prices, is on the methodology page.