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Buggy (automobile)

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Horse and buggy

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Lightweight

Buggy (automobile)

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.

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History

Originally used to describe very lightweight horse-drawn vehicles for one or two persons, the term was extended to lightweight automobiles as they became popular. As automobiles became increasingly sophisticated, the term briefly dropped out of use before being revived to describe more specialised off road vehicles.

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, the vehicle used on the moon in the Apollo program
  • Sandrail, a variant of the dune buggy
  • Swamp buggy, designed for use in swamps

    • References

    Buggy (automobile) Wikipedia
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