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A vintage-mobility atelier with more than four hundred units delivered, a 1968–1987 French icon hand-restored in Argentina and electrified in Florida, original VIN, U.S.-transferable title, and thirty-six cars a year. Everything a journalist needs is here.
VIMS World, the vintage-mobility atelier behind more than four hundred custom mobile units delivered across the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America, today opened reservations for the Electric Méhari: a hand-restored, fully electrified 1968–1987 Citroën Méhari, sourced abroad, restored in Argentina, electrified and titled at the company's Dania Beach, Florida atelier, and delivered with original VIN and U.S.-transferable title.
Production is capped at thirty-six cars per year. Prices begin at $49,000. A refundable $5,000 deposit holds a build slot, color, and delivery date. Reservations open July 2026; first deliveries begin autumn 2026. Three deposits have already been placed by a Charleston, South Carolina dealer ahead of today's public launch.
Unlike the kit cars and modern replicas that dominate the open-top resort vehicle category, every VIMS Méhari is an authentic 1968–1987 original Citroën — sourced from VIMS' supply networks in Europe and South America, hand-restored at the company's Argentina atelier, then electrified, finished, and titled at the company's Florida atelier. Each vehicle retains its original VIN and ships with U.S.-transferable title — a distinction that places it in the collector-vehicle category rather than the low-speed-vehicle or replica categories its competitors occupy.
VIMS World was founded by Matias Pellegrini and Gonzalo Sancho, who have spent more than a decade in the vintage-mobility category. The company has delivered units to Hilton, Hyatt, Sandals Resorts, Fontainebleau Miami, Godiva, Fuku, Savage Coffee, Glacé, and Aruba International Airport, with additional commissions for major hospitality, luxury, and beverage brands across three continents. The Electric Méhari marks the company's first passenger vehicle and the formal expansion of its electrification program, applying to the Méhari the same restoration-led approach VIMS pioneered with the Citroën HY.
Reservations are open at mehari.vims.world.
There's nothing else like it in America. The Méhari is one of the great design objects of the 20th century — a car Picasso drove, a car you see in every old photograph of the South of France. We're not building a copy. We're restoring the originals, electrifying them, and delivering them with papers. Thirty-six a year. That's the whole company.
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Matias Pellegrini, a fifteen-year veteran of the vintage-mobility category, is co-founder of VIMS and the commercial architect of one of the most distinctive operations in the U.S. mobile-retail market. He began as a food truck operator and food-truck-space developer, then led the development of the Citroën HY–inspired mobile trailer that VIMS would go on to deliver in more than four hundred units across three continents.
Gonzalo Sancho, co-founder, leads the workshop and restoration program, overseeing every Méhari from chassis-up rebuild through electrification.
Together, the founders have delivered units to Hilton, Hyatt, Sandals Resorts, Fontainebleau Miami, Godiva, Fuku, Savage Coffee, Glacé, and Aruba International Airport. The Electric Méhari is VIMS' first passenger vehicle and the formal launch of the company's electrification program — applying to the Méhari the same restoration-led approach the company pioneered with the Citroën HY.
