MG CYBERSTER

Are you paying attention? If not, our electric roadster won't like it

- MATT PRIOR

Can a two-seat roadster/GT/sports car be both satisfying to own and electric?

As I briefly caught sight of the rear of a metallic grey roadster while viewing a page on the internet, I wondered why 'my' MG Cyberster was being photographed and written about.

My mistake: it was a picture of the rear of the new Aston Martin Vanquish Volante. On anything more than a glancing cursory inspection, the two of course don’t look like each other, but in a week when MG has also launched a 742bhp super-saloon, I do get a sense that the old rules about who makes quick and expensive and glamorous cars and who does not are presently being rewritten.

I recently took the Cyberster along to a photo and video shoot in Wales to meet a different Aston Martin, a Vantage Roadster, plus a McLaren Artura and a Ferrari Roma. The MG wasn't part of the test: these are luxury sports cars with mighty engines. But if you take a look at the picture above, does it look so out of place?