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For other vehicles known as "buggy", see
Buggy
.
Motor vehicle
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
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Originally used to describe very
lightweight horse-drawn vehicles
for one or two persons,
[1]
the term was extended to lightweight
automobiles
as they became popular.
[2]
[3]
As automobiles became increasingly sophisticated, the term briefly dropped out of use before being revived to describe more specialised off-road vehicles.
[4]
[5]
[6]
Types
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- 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
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References
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Felton, William (1794?1795). "A treatise on carriages". London: printed for and sold by the author; by J. Debrett; R. Fadlder [sic]; J. Egerton; J. White; W. Richardson; and A. Jameson.
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"Advantages of the automobile buggy"
.
Popular Mechanics
. Hearst Magazines. July 1909. p. 72
. Retrieved
14 August
2013
.
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"untitled".
Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter
. 4 December 1901. p. 3.
He is catapulted through space by the explosion of a 'gasoline buggy'.
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"Amphibian 'Marsh buggy' used to hunt oil"
.
Popular Mechanics
. Hearst Magazines. April 1937. p. 529
. Retrieved
14 August
2013
.
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"Jungle Buggy packs a load"
.
Popular Science
. May 1948. p. 122
. Retrieved
14 August
2013
.
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Hunn, Max (October 1954).
"Swamp-buggy Steeplechase"
.
Popular Mechanics
. p. 137
. Retrieved
14 August
2013
.