Neighbour’s indicative pricing if applied here would mean up to $161k asked.

POTENTIAL MG’s all electric two-seater Cyberster sports car will cost two, perhaps three times, as much as the country’s favourite new roadster seems possible.

Indicative pricing for Australia has been shared and it likely has strong relevance to New Zealand, where no comment about the car’s potential placement has yet shared.

The countries run a conjoined model play with the Kiwi distributor reporting to regional operation in Melbourne.

Over there, the management has told media just the flagship edition is in line for sale.

At present that derivative will cost between $A100,000 and $A150,000 - that’s between $107,000 to just over $161k in New Zealand folding, using today’s exchange rate.

Potential buyers across the Tasman can place orders now with assurance a final recommended retail will be sorted before delivery, at time yet to be determined.

The top end of that spend span would cover cost of the latest roadster and RF folding hardtop versions of the 2024 MX-5, and leave plenty to spare for track day fun and a few sets of spare tyres. 

The GT roadster that achieves as the country’s top-choice soft-top two-seater is the more expensive of Hiroshima’s offers, siting as $60,490 ask.

The MG’s potential spend confirms long-held conjecture that the car based on a new electric architecture called MSP (Modular Scalable Platform), would be the Sino-Brit marque’s most expensive car ever pitched here. 

However, as said, the regional distributor has settled for the best-specified and most powerful of the versions in production in China. Two other editions would have been cheaper, but have smaller battery packs and less performance.

With a 77kWh dual motor set-up packing 400kW/725Nm and opportuning all-wheel-drive, the regional choice can hit 0-100kmh in just 3.2 seconds. That kind of stomp would utterly dust the Mazda, which relies on a 2.0-litre petrol making 135kW and 205Nm, feeding the back wheels via a six-speed manual.

Which will be the rarer sight might be worth conjecturing. The MX-5 has status as the world’s most popular roadster, with comfortably more than one million in circulation since the nameplate came out in 1989. Although NZ is well populated, the majority of cars here are used imports and the latest ND line has settled into achieving just a few dozen NZ-new registrations annually.

Cyberster, whose order book has opened across the Tasman, might also be as niche in all-new form as the newest ND. 

MG Australia’s national sales manager Brad Chruszcz has said intention in his country is to restrict count to limited numbers. Likely as not, the same policy will apply here.

Chruszcz has suggested it will “definitely be a case of supply verse demand” in his market “given the interest we’ve already had from the public and our 90 plus dealers.”