Buggy (automobile) explained
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.[1] [2] As automobiles became increasingly sophisticated, the term briefly dropped out of use before being revived to describe more specialised off-road vehicles.[3] [4] [5]
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
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Advantages of the automobile buggy. July 1909. Popular Mechanics. 72. Hearst Magazines. 14 August 2013.
- News: untitled. 4 December 1901. Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter. 3. He is catapulted through space by the explosion of a 'gasoline buggy'. .
- Web site: Amphibian 'Marsh buggy' used to hunt oil. April 1937. Popular Mechanics. 529. Hearst Magazines. 14 August 2013.
- Web site: Jungle Buggy packs a load. May 1948. Popular Science. 122. 14 August 2013.
- Web site: Swamp-buggy Steeplechase. Hunn. Max. October 1954. Popular Mechanics. 137. 14 August 2013.
