2025 MG Windsor Pro review: Is it worth the ₹1.5 lakh premium?

The MG Windsor has already taken India by storm. Very quickly after its launch, it overtook the Tata Nexon EV in monthly sales and as of May 2025, it has sat on the top of that chart for seven months straight. MG isn’t sitting on its laurels, though. It is expanding the Windsor EV range. Meet the MG Windsor Pro. It costs ₹1.5 lakh more than the top-end Windsor EV (called Entice) and brings with it more features and more range. Question is, should you stretch your budget to get one?

2025 MG Windsor Pro styling and interior

On the outside, nothing much changes on the MG Windsor Pro save for the new design for the 18-inch wheels. The interiors remain very well equipped — it gets a massive 15.6-inch touchscreen, ventilated seats, a sunroof, wireless phone charger and loads of storage and cubby holes. The back seat continues to be a highlight with generous room and incredible recline angles. It probably is the most comfortable backseat in at this price point. The additions are interesting: you now get a powered tailgate, V2L and V2V functions, plus dual tone “ivory” interiors.

2025 MG Windsor Pro range

Of course, the big news is the bigger battery. You now get a 52.9kWh battery, a step up from the 38kWh battery pack on the rest of the range. Interestingly, this new battery pack uses a new prismatic cell and is more energy dense. That has allowed MG to package the new battery pack in almost the same volume as the lower capacity one. Claimed range has gone up from 332km to 449km. What’s more important is the real-world range. We started out with the cluster showing 426km on a full charge and after doing approximately 180km of energetic driving in the hills, we were left with 35 per cent and 147km of range. It is difficult to approximate what real world range would be because the gradients in the hills through the calculations off, but my estimate is 300-350km should be doable depending on the driving style.

2025 MG Windsor Pro driving experience

The MG Windsor remains nice to drive. The single-motor set up hasn’t changed — the Windsor makes 134bhp and 200Nm which is plenty. It delivers quick acceleration and makes overtakes a breeze, while getting up to cruising speed on the highway is no biggie. The only drawback is that if conditions are less than ideal, punching the throttle may cause the front wheels to spin up. It does have an ESP system, but it doesn’t seem to intervene very aggressively and lets the fronts spin. It is entertaining, for sure, but not ideal.

Ride quality is set up to be more comfortable than sporty, so that when you are lounging in that backseat, ride remains plush. It deals with bumps and bad roads with surprising competence, ironing them out and transferring very little in to the cabin. At the same time, the chassis isn’t all over the place. It remains stable, planted and confident at speed. It handles a winding road reasonably well too. While it won’t be my go-to choice for the Thrill of Driving, it doesn’t entirely lack connection to what is going on underneath. The steering is well calibrated and body roll, while present, doesn’t just descend in to understeer and leave you wanting more.

2025 MG Windsor Pro ADAS

Level 2 ADAS is now a part of the package. You can activate it or deactivate it from the screen here, and you get a total of 12 features including adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, forward collision warning, emergency braking. The package is suited to Indian conditions — I didn’t have any jump scares with the brakes activating on their own, despite having it on the whole time. And of course, you have the option of turning it off.

2025 MG Windsor Pro drawbacks

The Windsor isn’t perfect. Its biggest flaw is the stark lack of physical controls. Simple operations like opening the sunroof, tweaking the position of the ORVMs, changing the drive modes, or even turning on the headlamps forces you in to the touchscreen. They aren’t even easily accessible in there. If you’re on CarPlay, you have to go to the home screen, open the app menu, select the vehicle settings menu, find the type of vehicle setting you want to change in the sub menus, and then actually do the changing. Too tedious. I wanted to adjust my left ORVM on the fly and simply couldn’t figure it out. There were instructions on the screen but they were too tiny to read while driving. I just gave up and adjusted when I stopped an hour later. An annoying aspect of an otherwise brilliant car — but one that hasn’t stopped the Indian customer from lapping up the Windsor.

2025 MG Windsor Pro price and verdict

With a longer range and ADAS added to the arsenal, the Windsor Pro’s improvements are primarily to its long-distance and highway-driving ability. Coming back to my original question — should you pay the additional ₹1.5 lakh (₹17.5 lakh ex-showroom or ₹12.49 lakh + ₹4.5/km as a BAAS subscription) for one? By the way, price will be ₹18.1 lakh after first 8000 units are sold. If you’re just using the Windsor as a city runabout, you really don’t need to make the stretch. The standard car does everything you need. ADAS is more a liability in the city and you won’t need the extra range as you will always have one close by. The Pro makes sense if you are considering the Windsor as your only car, or if big distances are on the cards as a second car. The added range is going to be a factor sooner or later and it will be good to have it on your side. The Windsor was already such a rounded machine, and this Pro variant fixes one of the biggest chinks in its armour. The competition won’t be too happy.