Animo
England
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Price: Full kit around 6,000€ ( Fiat 600 Donor car) // Turnkey 8,000€
The Animoto buggy is a simple, lightweight fun vehicle which can be used as a pure off road vehicle or can easily be built to be fully road legal and submitting it to an Individual Vehicle Approval test by VOSA.
Is an attractive option to have a funny or working buggy built very cheaply. It's really simple car to build, cheap and environmentally friendly by reusing as much as possible from the donor vehicle (Fiat Seicento or MGF/TF).
With a standard Fiat 1100 FIRE engine the power to weight ratio is slightly over 100bhp/tonne. This makes the buggy pretty quick but if you are looking for more performance then the car can have too the 16V 1200 from the Punto which is giving around 150 bhp/tonne or the 1.8 K Series at well over 200bhp/tonne.
The engine hangs from a cradle which is separate from the chassis so that the buggy can be upgraded to take other engines. Engine choice is not restricted to Fiat, you can use any engine from any small front wheel drive cars. Is recommend the 1.8 Rover K series engine for a high performance buggy as the weight of the engine is only slightly more than the basic 1100 Fiat unit.
The chassis is available standalone for customer wishing to build a buggy to their own specification and design. An extremely strong and rigid tubular spaceframe design manufactured from 38mm and 25mm CDS tube.
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