Top speed is 25 mph, electric sticker price is $49,000 (!!!)
will be $79,000 and up. Back in 1964 you could get a Meyers Manx in kit form from Bruce Meyers himself for something like $500. It ain’t 1964 no more.First, the Resorter. This is a four-seat, 25-mph version of the two-seat Meyers Manx 2.0, which is itself the all-electric successor to the original Meyers Manx that gave rise to the dune buggy craze of the 1960s. The Resorter is made for tooling around the neighborhood, if your neighborhood is Martha’s Vineyard, Lido Isle, or Del Boca Vista.
You may remember the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle; in the 1990s it was the way certain major auto manufacturers were going to circumvent government standards for zero-emissions vehicles. Now it’s just a cute way to get around certain high-brow, low-speed neighborhoods where you’re not likely to get run over. Remember the GEM electric vehicles?The Resorter NEV rides on an aluminum monocoque chassis powered by a twin-motor electric drivetrain and lithium ion batteries.
“It will be at home from Malibu to Monaco,” said CEO Freeman Thomas, formerly designer for many major carmakers. “Born on the beach, it will have lots of torque, more than enough to carry four people up the steepest hills and lots of range to explore your favorite resort and not worry about range anxiety.
Power from the pack goes to the Manx 2.0’s twin electric motors, one for each rear wheel. Combined, the motors make 202 hp, good for 0-60 MPH in a reported 4.5 seconds. Then, when you lift off the accelerator pedal, the Manx uses regenerative braking to help slow down.When they revealed it last years, the Manx people have claimed that the 20-kWh battery is good for 150 miles of range and the 40-kWh battery good for 300 miles. If that sounds impossible, consider that the Manx 2.
No word on the range or performance of the Resorter, but if you can afford one, and live in the right neighborhood, range may not matter.only goes 25 mph?Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there. This was his introduction to objective automotive criticism.
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