The Electric Buggy That Looks Like It Drove In from a Better Future

There is something almost philosophical about the Amble One. It makes no attempt to look like a car. It doesn’t try to hide a battery pack, and doesn’t have smooth bodywork concealing what’s underneath.

Just an aluminum frame and skateboard chassis sitting openly in the air, cork-covered touchpoints warm against your hand, a flat windshield catching the light.

It looks less like a vehicle you’d park in a garage and more like something you’d find parked in front of a very interesting house in Portugal’s Alentejo.

Which is, not coincidentally, exactly where it came from.

The designer behind it is Julian Hoenig, who previously led design on the Apple Watch and Vision Pro. His source of inspiration here wasn’t a competitor’s concept car or a design brief for maximum market appeal.

It was NASA’s 1971 lunar rover — that stripped-bare, nothing-extra machine built to move across an alien surface with total honesty. The result weighs just 992 pounds, tops out at 40 miles per hour, and is street-legal in Europe under the L7e lightweight vehicle classification.

Co-founded with former Cowboy CEO Adrien Roose and hotelier José António Uva, who spent 14 years restoring a 780-hectare estate into one of Europe’s most celebrated rural retreats.

Amble is a company built around a very specific idea: that moving through a beautiful place should itself be beautiful. Resorts like Amangiri, Mustique Island, and Six Senses Les Bordes have already signed on to ferry guests in Amble Ones.

A buggy drawing from the moon, touching down softly in the most considered places on earth.

$25,000. amble.com

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