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Buggy (automobile)

Field	Value
name	Buggy
image	Volkswagen Country Buggy.jpg
caption	Volkswagen Country Buggy, a military buggy
manufacturer	Many
body_style	Lightweight
related	Horse and buggy
sp	us

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.

History

The word buggy was originally used in England to describe a lightweight two-wheeled carriage for one person, and later in America to describe a common 4-wheeled carriage. 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, 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

References

(July 1909). "Advantages of the automobile buggy". Hearst Magazines.
(4 December 1901). "untitled". Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter.
(April 1937). "Amphibian 'Marsh buggy' used to hunt oil". Hearst Magazines.
(May 1948). "Jungle Buggy packs a load". Popular Science.
Hunn, Max. (October 1954). "Swamp-buggy Steeplechase". Popular Mechanics.
Felton, William. (1996). "A Treatise on Carriages". Astragal Press.
Smith, D.J.M.. (1988). "A Dictionary of Horse Drawn Vehicles". J. A. Allen & Co. Ltd..

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