► Meyers Manx and Tuthill join forces
► LFG buggy is an off-roader’s dream
► Only 100 will be made
Buggy fanatics Meyers Manx and Porsche restomodders Tuthill have joined forces to create this: the LFG. The LFG is an off-road buggy that takes heavy design and engineering inspiration from Meyers Manx’s cars, with some serious engineering underneath.
The Meyers Manx buggy as we know it has been thoroughly modernised, with bespoke and almost retro-futuristic carbonfibre bodywork and high-grade materials used. Tuthill says the LFG can be powered by ‘several’ engine options, including the engine from the Tuthill K – a 3.1-litre flat-six that revs to 11,000rpm. Power is sent to all four wheels via a six-speed sequential transmission and three limited-slip differentials.
Each LFG includes four-piston, off-road-spec brake calipers, five-way adjustable dampers with hydraulic bump stops to handle high-speed off-roading and BF Goodrich off-road tyres.
Wondering what LFG stands for? Well, in the wider world it means ‘let’s f***ing go!’ By the sounds of it, that’s the entire point of this thing – to do just that. ‘[Richard Tuthill and I] came together to imagine the perfect Meyers Manx, and after we laid the foundation, we invited our friend Freeman Thomas to bring his design brilliance to the surface of Tuthill’s incredible engineering capability,’ says Meyers Manx chairman, Phillip Sarofim. ‘The result is exactly what we sought; raw, visceral, novel, and totally uncompromising. We call it LFG for a reason…”
‘The car looks fun, mischievous, it has a character that I have genuinely never seen or felt,’ says Richard Tuthill. ‘Could we go to the moon and back in it? Probably. In 2 minutes, it transforms from a fully air conditioned, enclosed cabin to a doorless buggy where the wind provides the air that helps us smile.’
Just 100 will be made, with Tuthill and Meyers Manx promising ‘six years of curated global driving experiences’ to go with them. The first 20 are to be made ready for the first LFG tour that’s being set up specifically for owners of the buggies, and is designed to celebrate 50 years of Meyers Manx winning the Baja 1000.
Jake has been an automotive journalist since 2015, joining CAR as Staff Writer in 2017. With a decade of car news and reviews writing under his belt, he became CAR's Deputy News Editor in 2020 and then News Editor in 2025. Jake's day-to-day role includes co-ordinating CAR's news content across its print, digital and social media channels. When he's not out interviewing an executive, driving a new car for review or on a photoshoot for a CAR feature, he's usually found geeking out on the latest video game, buying yet another pair of wildly-coloured trainers or figuring out where he can put another car-shaped Lego set in his already-full house.
By Jake Groves
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