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Sandrail Dune Buggies

Have you even been somewhere where you can find sand dunes, and dune buggies?

Somewhere where the buggies are allowed to drive on the dunes?

Well it is. Owning a dune buggy is one of a sandrail buggy is a specific type of dune buggies.

There are, in fact, a number of different types of buggy, and a number of different places where you can drive a buggy.

For example there are street legal buggies, you may well have seen them, and even some off-road buggies are built to be street legal just so that the owners can drive them to where they want to go, rather than trailer them.

What is a sandrail ? It can be called sometimes a sand car or sand rail. These are dune buggies that are specifically designed for driving on sandy terrain, particularly steep sandy terrain. There are quite a number of places where it is legal to drive on the dunes, and this is where you find the sandrails.

They are extremely lightweight, with a very high power to weight ratio and they use large high flotation tires with very large treads. Both of these factors allow them to skim lightly over the surface of the sand rather than bogging down into it as a heavier vehicle, or a vehicle with narrow tires would do. But a sandrail usually has narrow front tires to allow it to bit into the sand when turning.

A sandrail has a very low center of gravity, which allows it to drive both up and across steep slopes without rolling.

Motors are usually lightweight with a good power to weight ratio, and often air cooled, sometimes original VW beetle engines, although modern sandrail dune buggies are now using more modern lightweight water cooled motors, for instance Subaru motors. A good sandrail dune buggy isn't cheap, but is well worth the cost. A sand rail is excitement epitomized.

So if you're into motorsport, and want to get into a (relatively) cheap form of motorsport, consider a sandrail dune buggy.

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