SCISSOR SISTER

The world's fastest MG debuts in India but we try to ascertain whether this two door roadster takes on the purist's Utopia or looks to create its own space for exceptional early adopters

- Dipayan Dutta

What is a sports car in 2025? For generations, the answer was simple. It was a formula of noise, vibration, mechanical feedback, and a certain analogue connection between man, machine, and road. It was about chasing the redline, the smell of burnt fuel, and the satisfaction of a perfectly executed heeland-toe downshift. But the rulebook has been thrown out. The age of the electric vehicle is forcing us to ask that question all over again, and from the most unexpected of corners, we have an audacious, stunning, and deeply polarizing answer: the MG Cyberster.

Landing on our shores as a fully-imported CBU, the Cyberster isn't here to play by the old rules.

With its roarky-ian approach to design, silent electric powertrain, and a price tag of Rs 75 lakh (exshowroom), it isn't so much challenging the establishment as it is creating a completely new one.

After a day of putting it through its paces on the BIC and some slaloms around the NCR, one thing is clear. The MG Cyberster is a phenomenal piece of technology and a bold statement of intent.

But is it a true sports car?

The answer, like the car itself, is complicated.