MG Cyberster GTS due for launch later this year

It would appear that a fixed-roof Cyberster 2+2 Coupe is now on the actual horizon. The racy MG will go into production following the 2024 debut of a concept car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

And it will be a four-seater, unlike the two-seat Cyberster convertible.

The fixed-roof Cyberster GTS had a public outing last year at Goodwood. And now, at the Shanghai motor show, it seems like a production version has received the green light. It could land in time for the 60th anniversary of the original MGB GT in October.

Asked for an update on the Cyberster GTS, MG parent company SAIC’s design boss, Jozef Kaban, said: “It’s coming.”

MG took the positive public reaction to last year’s concept as a factor in giving it the go-head. The Goodwood exposure “made it happen”. 

Kaban was speaking at the unveiling of the new MG Cyber X concept, a bluff electric crossover that’s set to go on sale as the second model in the Cyber family, alongside the Cyberster. 

He said the success of the two-door sports car as a halo model for MG acted as an incentive to expand the Cyber line-up.

“It makes you smile,” he said. “That’s why we love cars, because you feel that they are there to make you….happy. They make you shine.”

A new derivative of the sports car would effectively give MG’s Cyber brand a three-car line-up. The marked difference between the Cyberster and Cyber X model lines suggests there could be enough design distance between them to expand the line-up further.