2024 MG Cyberster review: Electric roadster fails — it’s no fun to drive

Here’s a fact for you – the MG Cyberster is the world’s first production two-seat EV to go on sale. It’s brave, to put it mildly.

The car looks great and while the example I drove was in low-powered single-motor Trophy rather than GT spec, I didn’t feel it lacking in performance. The structure seems commendably stiff and the ride quality as good as you might reasonably expect. Even the initially baffling interior makes more sense once you’ve invested 10 minutes learning its ways.

But there are big problems here, the most obvious being that it’s no fun to drive. Not, at least, in the way you have every right to expect a two-seat roadster to be fun. The steering is notably dull, the electric motor, well, an electric motor. It goes through the motions well enough, but with absolutely zero sense of enthusiasm.

And then there’s the driving position. It beggars belief that a clean-sheet design, with the packaging benefits of all EVs, can be so cramped. Yes, I am quite tall, but evenly distributed and I had not nearly enough leg room. You also sit far too high, an annoyance almost regardless of your height. You should sit in, not on a sports car. And those electric pivoting doors are as annoying to use as they are good to look at.

A brave effort, then, but a clear miss and by a bigger margin than I had expected. AF

MG Cyberster

• Price £54,995
• Engine Rear electric motor, 74.4kWh battery
• Power 335bhp
• Torque 350lb ft
• Weight 1825kg
• Transmission Single-speed, rear-wheel drive
• 0-60mph 5.0sec
• Top speed 121mph
• Range 265 miles (WLTP)
• Charging speed Up to 144kW
• Verdict Downsides on many fronts.