► MG reveals Cyber GTS prototype
► A hardtop Cyberster that will likely make production
► Prototype will take on the hill at Goodwood FoS 2024
MG has pulled the covers off this: the Cyber GTS concept. It’s designed to be a hardtop companion to its Cyberster roadster and is just one part of the brand’s 100-year celebrations as the headline act at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The Cyber GTS is a two-door electric sports coupe and, if it makes production, that would make it the first of its kind. That’s because MG is very keen to point out that this is still just a concept – even if the brand is taking a prototype model up the famous hillclimb during the Festival of Speed.
‘We are trying to bring the MG brand more into the future,’ says SAIC Global Design Vice President, Jozef Kaban (pictured above, left). ‘You can’t just make retro cars, copy or improve them – you have to always define something new.’
Even so, MG is keen to impress some of its now 100-year history a little more than it has before during its time as a brand under the Chinese SAIC automotive giant. So much so that the Cyber GTS is designed to be a nod to the MGC GTS Sebring – a racing car that took on the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1968 and achieved MG’s highest ever factory result.
The Cyber GTS sits low to the ground, with its stretching bonnet and bluff rear end. Plenty of the Cyberster’s design cues have been carried over, with MG’s team saying the platform underpinning its electric roadster is capable of having a hardtop model, too.
In fact, unlike the Cyberster, the Cyber GTS concept is defined as a 2+2. ‘And it is a real 2+2,’ says Carl Gotham, MG’s Advanced Design Director who’s also responsible for crafting the wild EXE181 show car. ‘There is a package there, and the study is there – it’s not just for show.’
And, given it’s defined as a concept car, the Cyber GTS is shown just as an exterior model and without any performance specifications. MG’s team say the fooprint hasn’t changed, although the GTS stands a little taller, implying that – if it were to make production – it would likely be offered with the Cyberster’s 335bhp single rear e-motor or the high-performance 503bhp twin-motor setup.
Even so, MG also reminded us that it would be 60 years of the MGB GT in 2025, which would be an apt time to unveil a new coupe sports car.