Buggy (automobile)




For other uses, see Buggy.




















Buggy

Citroën Méhari offen.jpg

Citroën Méhari, a French buggy

Overview
Manufacturer Many
Body and chassis
Body style Lightweight
Related Horse and buggy

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.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Types


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References





History


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




The U.S. Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle from Apollo 15 on the Moon in 1971




  • 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



See also





  • American (1902 automobile)

  • Buckeye gasoline buggy

  • Citroën C-Buggy

  • High wheeler

  • Kite buggy

  • Truggy

  • Volkswagen 181

  • Volkswagen Country Buggy




References









  1. ^ 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,..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Advantages of the automobile buggy". Popular Mechanics. July 1909. p. 72. Retrieved 14 August 2013.


  3. ^ "untitled". Logansport (Indiana) Daily Reporter. 4 December 1901. p. 3. He is catapulted through space by the explosion of a ‘gasoline buggy’.


  4. ^ "Amphibian 'Marsh buggy' used to hunt oil". Popular Mechanics. April 1937. p. 529. Retrieved 14 August 2013.


  5. ^ "Jungle Buggy packs a load". Popular Science. May 1948. p. 122. Retrieved 14 August 2013.


  6. ^ Hunn, Max (October 1954). "Swamp-buggy Steeplechase". Popular Mechanics. p. 137. Retrieved 14 August 2013.










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