MG Motor has created a four-seat coupe based on the popular Cyberster e-roadster. This concept is slated to go into production and may hit international showrooms as early as next year. Dubbed the Cyber GTS, it's making its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed as part of MG's starring role as the 'celebrated marque' of this year's event.
- Cyber GTS concept quite close to production-spec
- Interior expected to be identical to the Cyberster roadster
- GTS would serve as a logical successor to the MG B GT
The GTS is officially a concept for now, but the company's top designers, Jozef Kaban and Carl Gotham, said public reaction to the running prototype will decide whether MG takes it to the showroom.
Importantly, they said, the Cyberster was engineered from the off to be available as a convertible and a coupé, and the GTS is understood to be very close to what a road-ready car would look like – barring some tweaks to the boot lid and other subtle alterations.
The interior hasn't been revealed, but it would be all but identical to that of the roadster, save for the addition of a pair of rear seats that MG suggests will genuinely accommodate two passengers (rather than being best used as a luggage shelf).
The roofline has been raised slightly to boost head room in the rear row, but otherwise the GTS is structurally unchanged from the Cyberster, with the same footprint, wheelbase and general proportions.
Pressed for a potential launch date, MG's designers were tight-lipped, although they noted that 2025 will be the 60th anniversary of the B GT, which was launched two years after the B, suggesting a modern reincarnation could be a fitting tribute.
Ex-Volkswagen designer Kaban, speaking to reporters for the first time as vice-president of MG parent company SAIC's global design centre, said that while the GTS would serve as a logical successor to the B GT, it isn't a nostalgia-fuelled project.
He said it was important “not to make any kind of compromise” when designing the fixed-roof GTS, highlighting the retention of the Cyberster's scissor doors as a particular highlight.
He told our sister publication Autocar UK that while the GTS is a wildly different proposition to MG's volume-focused line of hatchbacks and SUVs, he expects the concept to still “talk to a big amount of people”, because “we have many rational things in our life but we need some special moments”. In line with that more ethos, the GTS has been designed to be approachable and unthreatening – more as a grand tourer than a full-blown sports coupé.
The prototype is said to be rear-driven, though. Just as the Cyberster stands largely uncontested in the electric convertible segment (barring the much more expensive Maserati GranCabrio Folgore), the Cyber GTS could be the first EV of its kind to go on sale.
The BMW M2 is the only similarly sized and priced 2+2 coupe currently on sale in internationbal market, and the German brand has no plans for an EV option in the immediate future.
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