Tag Archives: Meyers Manx

Behold: the Thomas Crown Affair Dune Buggy – which is to say, the actual Meyers Manx that Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway raced along the beach in the 1968 film that made Dunaway a Hollywood A-lister and started the dune buggy craze (which still hasn’t abated).

The car that McQueen himself helped to design (a VW chassis with a flat-six 230bhp Chevrolet Corvair engine) comes up for auction next year.

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Behold: the VW Beetle ID concept,  debuted this month at the Geneva Motor Show – an all electric update of the Meyers Manx dune buggy with 201bhp of sand-kicking power, a 250km range, no roof, no side windows and a series of holes in the floor to let water drain out..

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