Dune buggies popped up in the news several times this week. The open-bodied American car culture icon that took hold in the 1960s on shortened VW Beetle chassis inspired a VW electric concept vehicle, ...

Meyers quickly established the Manx bona fides in off-road racing (winning the Mexican 1000, precursor to the Baja 1000), and word of his startling creation spread. Serial production started slowly in ...

View post: I Drove the 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9. Here Is Why It’s Better Than a Tesla Model Y Since Bruce Meyers created the original Meyers Manx in 1964, the rebodied VW Beetle has been a cultural icon ...

Danger (apparently) meant nothing to Bruce Meyers. Given his extraordinary life, one might theorize that death couldn't catch up to the dune-buggy racing legend. He was a southern California ...

Bruce Meyers, who rose to fame with the Meyers Manx dune buggy in 1967 and a triumphant win at the Baja 1000, has passed away at 94. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Meyers grew up surfing and roaming the ...

The original Volkswagen Beetle has a very close connection to the dune buggy vehicle type as the simplicity and availability of the model made it the ideal donor for the conversion. With their ...

Instead of asking, “Would you like to experience Baja 1000-style driving,” the guys at Wide Open Baja should have posed the question thusly; “How would you like to know what repeated piledrivers from ...

When he built a stripped down, candy-colored car mounted on four large wheels to surf the sand on California beaches in 1963, Bruce Meyers could scarcely have imagined his “dune buggy” would become ...