But VW manufactured the vehicles that were sacrificed to provide the chassis for many a dune buggy in the 1960s – the Volkswagen Beetle, or Bug.

VW said it was inspired by the dune buggies built on the Beetle chassis back in the 1980s when it developed this off-road machine. #VWNews. #VW is bringing a legend back to life!

The I.D. Buggy concept is inspired by the classic Californian dune buggies of the 1960s, but it also looks to the future, since it’s based on VW’s electric MEB platform.

Remarkably, the VW chassis upon which the buggy is built was only a year old at the time. Perhaps it had been totaled in an accident or suffered some other indignity that made it a ready component ...

And funnily enough, VW’s rush to the future has put me a bit back in time, and into a dune buggy. This swoopy green sand machine, called the ID Buggy, isn’t destined for production, unlike VW ...

In the case of the modern-day dune buggy, that means 201 horsepower and 228 lb-ft of torque. 0-62 mph arrives in 7.2 seconds, and top speed is electronically limited to 99 mph.

The ID Buggy is conceptually based on the famous Meyers Manx dune buggy which started production in the 1960s. That fiberglass buggy was built on a shortened VW Beetle chassis.

We’ll see if VW’s plans are strictly conceptual to keep the hype going for the MEB electric platform, or if the Dune Buggy leads to a more consumer-friendly derivative (think a crossover) in ...

The ID Buggy is conceptually based on the famous Meyers Manx dune buggy which started production in the 1960s. That fiberglass buggy was built on a shortened VW Beetle chassis.