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First Sight: Scissor-doored MG Cyberster is production-bound

2023-05-11T09:00:00

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MG is returning to its roadster roots with a full-electric, two-seater. Car Design News gained the first in-person view of the full-scale design model last week

MG is returning to its roadster roots with a full-electric, two-seater due in 2024 and Car Design News gained the first in-person view of the full-scale design model last week. At a small press event at MG’s European design studio in the heart of London, the brand’s advanced design director Carl Gotham pulled the wraps off the striking scissor-doored EV, which is on course to be the world’s first ground-up, all-electric roadster design to go into production. (Tesla’s early 2000s two-seater arrived via an adapted Lotus Elise donor car, was more of a small-run experiment).

Up close, within the confines of MG’s London ground-floor display area, the production-car-representative Cyberster model looks every bit the classically well-proportioned sportscar, with a gently forward-sloping bonnet, cab-rearward silhouette, long wheelbase and a truncated Kamm-style tail. At 4535mm long, 1913mm wide, 1329mm high and sitting on a 2705mm wheelbase, its dimensions are considerably greater than the 1995 MG F (L:3912, W:1651, H:1270 and WB:2388mm) but within the ballpark of the current 2019 BMW Z4 Mk2 (L:4324, W:1864, H:1304). Significantly the Cyberster’s height…

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