The EV Manx will come with a standard 20 kWh battery and 150 miles of range.
What began as a Southern California fixture emerged as a cultural icon. But with explosive growth came imitators—more than a quarter million, according to the Historic Vehicle Association, officially branding Manx “the most copied vehicle in history.” The rampant theft led Meyers’s “visualization of friendship and love” to end in frustration. But decades later, after a fresh dose of inspiration, he chose to reinvigorate the company.
As fate would have it, a budding young car enthusiast fell in love with the marque when his family rented Manxes while vacationing in Hawaii. An ocean away, the future designer of landmark vehicles including the Audi TT and Porsche 959 grew up admiring the life and lifestyle of Bruce Meyers, who lived nearby in Newport Beach. Those forces coalesced when the enthusiast, Phillip Sarofim, acquired the Meyers Manx brand in 2020, appointing the designer, Freeman Thomas, as CEO.
“For me, the Meyers Manx has always had this elusive spark—it’s an antidote to the complexity of life, a holiday or break,” Sarofim said at the reveal of the electric model. “I’ve had Manxes in my life since my teens and I can tell you that the feeling of escape you have when driving one is very, very real, and most interestingly, reaches far beyond the car itself.”
Parked against the same Southern California sky that framed Bruce Meyers’s pioneering efforts decades ago, the new EV model manages to tip a hat to the past while embracing the future.The Meyers Manx EV’s first 50 customers will join a Beta program when they take delivery of the new 2.0 model in 2023, sharing feedback with the carmaker as they refine the production version.
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