Buggy (automobile)
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Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight automobile with off-road capabilities and sparse bodywork. Most are built either as a kit car or from scratch.
| Buggy | |
|---|---|
Volkswagen Country Buggy, a military buggy | |
| Overview | |
| Manufacturer | Many |
| Body and chassis | |
| Body style | Lightweight |
| Related | Horse and buggy |
History
The word buggy was originally used in England to describe a lightweight two-wheeled carriage for one person,[1]: 121 and later in America to describe a common 4-wheeled carriage.[2]: 25 The term was extended to lightweight automobiles as they became popular.[3][4] As automobiles became increasingly sophisticated, the term briefly dropped out of use before being revived to describe more specialised off-road vehicles.[5][6][7]
Types
- Bennett buggy, a Canadian, depression era term for an automobile pulled by a horse
- Dune buggy, designed for use on sand dunes
- Baja Bug, a modified Volkswagen Beetle
- Moon buggy, nickname for the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the Moon during the Apollo program's Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 missions
- Sandrail, a variant of the dune buggy
- Swamp buggy, designed for use in swamps
- Rock buggy, designed for use in low-speed rock-crawling applications
- Rock bouncer, designed for use in high-speed rock-crawling/bashing or very steep, off-road hillclimb racing, typically tubular steel exoskeleton, 1000hp V8 petrol engine
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References
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