MG Cyber X debuts at Shanghai 2025 – full live gallery of production-ready boxy SUV with pop-up headlamps!

Ni hao from Auto Shanghai 2025, where countless cars are making their world debut today at the press day. Many of those cars, from Chinese brands, will look same-same (seriously, it’s hard to keep abreast), but MG’s Cyber X – revealed by SAIC Motor design boss Jozef Kabaň – won’t look like any of them.

Also surprising for a Chinese boxy SUV, it doesn’t look like other famous 4x4s – this isn’t a copy of the Land Rover Defender, Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen or Toyota Land Cruiser. It even has a feature that I don’t remember seeing in any SUV, past and present – pop-up headlamps! Yes, the upper tier lights on the bonnet’s edge are pop-ups!

Elsewhere, the matte black showcar has full-width LED signature bars at both ends, and both front and rear also feature illuminated MG logos. The bonnet is stepped. Flashes of brightwork can be found on the wing mirror caps and two-tone wheels, and that’s it. A clean, handsome boxy SUV to our eyes.

No details yet, but according to Autocar, the Cyber X will sit on parent company SAIC’s latest E3 electric platform designed for everything from compact cars to sports cars. The “first fully electric, system-level architecture” incorporates cell-to-body construction, where the batteries contribute to body rigidity, reducing weight.

This big SUV could very well be an SUV flagship for the MG brand – it also has the ‘Cyber’ name, just like the Cyberster roadster, a sexy flag bearer for the marque.

We’ll get back to you with details, but for now, what do you think of the MG Cyber X, design wise?

GALLERY: MG Cyber X at Auto Shanghai 2025

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