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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dune buggies used to be a cultural phenomenon back in the 60s and 70s, and while they are not as popular as they used to be, they are just as cool. There is no denying that racing across the sand with ...

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 ...

Meyers, now 94, founded his first company in the mid-1960s to market his VW Beetle-based kit, which was offered through 1971. He then rebooted the brand in 2000 and has been selling the buggys and ...

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 ...

Flying across the sand like a four-wheel rocket, the first fiberglass dune buggy was sleek, stylish and a little whimsical, a small car with big wheels and a tangerine-red paint job. Christened the ...