concept, except that, as Thomas told US car magazine Autoweek earlier this year, the new Manx will be the same size as the original – which is a lot smaller than the Volkswagen.
Some cars really suit being EVs. Short-hop, fun weekend wagons that aren’t about on-the-limit road handling are among them. A beach buggy isn’t the sort of thing you will be covering hundreds of motorway miles in a week; it’s a hobbyist’s car. Jump in it fully charged, have a laugh in it, bring it home and plug it in again. I like the idea. We should see it next year.
Mind you, there’s probably something to be written about the gentrification of what were self-assembly cars. I can’t imagine a bunch of Californian teenagers putting an electric buggy together on a driveway like they might have cut open a Beetle so they could bolt an original Meyers Manx body on top.
But plenty of other beach buggies are still available – even if none of them nails the aesthetics quite as well as Meyers did. To somebody perennially looking at the next unfinished project, their appeal seems undimmed.
matty_prior It is so fun to drive one of those, especially in California😍🥰😇.