The Mercedes-created Smart, for all its tiny charm, isn't a great car and it sells horribly. I think I have a solution to both problems: turn it into a dune buggy. I remember as a kid, even in my ...

VW never built its own dune buggy, but many were created using Beetle chassis, from which the body could be easily removed. In a similar fashion, the new one would be based on the company’s new ...

The current owner of the Sidekick Dune Buggy builds stuff like this in his spare time. The builder of this project had an old fiberglass dune-buggy body that had broken in the middle, rendering it ...

As the guy on the old "A-Team" TV series used to say, "I love it when a plan comes together." That was how Jon Leonard got into the dune buggy golf cart business. "My wife wanted a golf cart to drive ...

Electric cars can be earnest, sensible, and green, but Volkswagen is taking the opportunity to show EVs can just as much be silly, playful, and neon green, with the VW I.D. BUGGY concept at the Geneva ...

A teenager is still chasing her dream to become a firefighter despite being severely burned in a dune buggy accident. America Salmeron, 17, was riding the dune buggy in the Nevada desert during a ...

OCALA - The Brinkley family loves its restored 1976 four-seat Allison Dune Buggy they nicknamed the Glitterbug. Husband and father Richard is pleased with the restoration job, while wife and mom April ...

Owing to a dearth of donor VW Beetles for the chassis, few people are building fun cars like today's Nice Price or No Dice dune buggy anymore. That's too bad and makes street-legal fun cars like this ...

His creation revolutionized off-road riding. But he fell victim to companies that knocked off his design for kits that turned Beetles into buggies. By Richard Sandomir Bruce Meyers, who used his ...

Bruce Meyers, who rose to fame with the Meyers Manx dune buggy in 1967 and a triumphant win at the Baja 1000, has passed away at 94. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Meyers grew up surfing and roaming the ...