A Buggy is just Half a BAJA ...:)

ibmoknegawsklov · 26 Feb 2005, 4:00 pm

what do you think ???

warb · 26 Feb 2005, 4:12 pm

i need another beer, thats what i think....

pyr0 · 26 Feb 2005, 4:18 pm

ooo after last night im done with beers today ill have top wait till it gets dark again :jesus

VDUBXTC · 26 Feb 2005, 6:59 pm

I recon a baja is just the lazy way of making a buggy:P

ancientbugger · 26 Feb 2005, 7:55 pm

A baja is a beetle trying to be a buggy ( I wouldn't mind one though!)

bigbaja · 26 Feb 2005, 11:17 pm

baja,s are for the smart

Anthiron · 27 Feb 2005, 2:53 am

bajas are for those who dont want to get wet when it rains. or like just a little bit of security.

Andy42 · 27 Feb 2005, 6:59 am

Bajas are for those who are scared they will melt if they get wet. And OH for those who have wives/girlfriends/significant others, that will not LET them have a buggy.

ancientbugger · 27 Feb 2005, 7:35 am

My eldest son is wanting a buggy for his first car and I'm trying to persuade him to get a baja ( I don't want him to get wet!)

phatrat · 27 Feb 2005, 9:04 am

a baja is a poor man's buggy:P

DubCrazy · 27 Feb 2005, 9:13 am

buggys are just dreaming of being like there big brother the baja!!!!!!

steff....................

OZ Towdster · 27 Feb 2005, 9:18 am

Baja,s are for those that want to still be waiting at the bottom of the hill waiting for the buggys to come back.

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? · 27 Feb 2005, 1:33 pm

But andrew baja drivers are mad and try and drive over buggys and the TOWD and then get out and shake the lumps out

Andy42 · 27 Feb 2005, 2:53 pm

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:But andrew baja drivers are mad and try and drive over buggys and the TOWD and then get out and shake the lumps out

Mate as a Baja owner you just hit the nail on the head when you said TRY you know you will never beat the towd in a baja. :thumb😉

Mad Manx · 27 Feb 2005, 7:06 pm

Buggy's ARE the final evolution....

~air fooled~ · 28 Feb 2005, 12:17 pm

bajas are for driving grandma to the pharmacy.

buggys are for driving the hot shiela up the street (in more way then one)😀

Baja Wes · 28 Feb 2005, 12:29 pm

buggies are for people having a mid-life crisis who feel the need to feel the wind in their hair while they've still got some.

In traffic a buggy has all the disadvantages of a motorbike - no luggage capacity, you get wet, you get cold, you get hot, you get sunburnt, if you hit a landcruiser your probably going under it.

But they have none of the motorbike advantages. Instead they have the disadvantages of a car, slow (relative to a motorbike), crap economy (again relative to a bike), can't split traffic, can't park for free in the city etc.

Me, I'd rather have my motorbike and my Baja.

As for the buggy being for the Sheila up the road, I reckon my Baja gets more attention from the girls than any buggy would 🙂

ColumBUS · 28 Feb 2005, 12:49 pm

buggies and bajas are for beetle owners who need to compensate :party

VDUBXTC · 28 Feb 2005, 12:50 pm

Have the same noise comming from any buggy and anyone will look.

I don't know why every one has so much trouble with space in a buggy. I can pack more into my buggy than into my beetle without sacrificing comfort.

I don't get burnt. i have a hardtop on mine, and i still get the wind in my hair:P

MikeM · 28 Feb 2005, 1:03 pm

I HATE rust.
Buggies don't rust

(Buggy still has metal floorpan but heaps less hidden rust-friendly spots. Most Bajas rust in the body like doors and pillars not the floorpan / suspension)

Boozer · 28 Feb 2005, 1:24 pm

$2.63 homebrand baja wrote:
Baja Wes wrote:As for the buggy being for the Sheila up the road, I reckon my Baja gets more attention from the girls than any buggy would 🙂
mine too! 😀 .......... :duh hang on, that sounds wrong :o

I can't stop laughing!

Boozer · 28 Feb 2005, 1:26 pm

Baja's are more versatile. I'll bet that there are more baja's being used as daily drivers (when mine's running it is...) than buggies.

72TWINCAB · 28 Feb 2005, 1:31 pm

Buggies are cooler, baja's are more practical.

I like em both.

VDUBXTC · 28 Feb 2005, 1:40 pm

Boozer wrote:Baja's are more versatile. I'll bet that there are more baja's being used as daily drivers (when mine's running it is...) than buggies.

Interesting Boozer.
We have 11 buggies used as daily or every second day drivers within 20mins from each other.
we only have 3 baja's soon to be 4

~air fooled~ · 28 Feb 2005, 2:32 pm

buggys are for men, if you's done understand now you never will...:P

ColumBUS · 28 Feb 2005, 2:35 pm

i have a feeling this is going to get heated...

so lets start cooking!
go buy a real offroader! landcruiser baby!

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? · 28 Feb 2005, 4:33 pm

For andy why do i need to beat one went i can just drive over one and i dont have to go down the fiberglass shop the next day and get a new body for me or the car. As for the landcruiser well ah lets just say each to his own hay.
And if anyone wants to start a fight some just say somthing about air first water but dont as we are all fighting for the same side here.
And wes that about nails it if you want to get wet and dirty pull the bike out of the shed if not jump in the baja

twoguns · 28 Feb 2005, 4:37 pm

baja... hahahaha wannabee.

buggies rock..

example 1

twoguns · 28 Feb 2005, 4:37 pm

2

twoguns · 28 Feb 2005, 4:38 pm

3.

twoguns · 28 Feb 2005, 4:39 pm

4

road or off road. buggies win with style...:P

ColumBUS · 28 Feb 2005, 4:39 pm

2g that second wone is wicked mad! i want a buggy bad

MikeM · 28 Feb 2005, 4:48 pm

So this has become a buggy post-a-thon has it

ancientbugger · 28 Feb 2005, 5:45 pm

I'd say buggies just won hands down there😀😀😀😀

WABaja · 1 Mar 2005, 1:13 am

ancientbugger wrote:I'd say buggies just won hands down there😀😀😀😀

I'd say you're talking out of your arse...

Buggies are a poor excuse for a REAL Off Road VW...!!!
duh

[Edited on 28-2-2005 by WABaja]

Desert Moose · 1 Mar 2005, 1:57 am

I'm not gunna say a word......:P
http://www.off-road.com/race/2004score/baja500/meyers.html

Wag67 · 1 Mar 2005, 5:53 am

but desert moose real race cars or offroader have doors

VDUBXTC · 1 Mar 2005, 1:42 pm

doors are for those who are to lazy to lift a leg to get in and out. OR To Old😉

VDUBXTC · 1 Mar 2005, 1:50 pm

buggies are way cooler, and much more fun.

~air fooled~ · 1 Mar 2005, 2:00 pm

manx_xtc wrote:doors are for those who are to lazy to lift a leg to get in and out. OR To Old😉

hahahahhahhah good one! hahhaaha

WABaja · 1 Mar 2005, 4:09 pm

Something I noticed... the Buggie guys, are showing us pictire after picture, OF SOMEONE ELSES CAR.....!!!!! WTF's that about...???

[Edited on 1-3-2005 by WABaja]

~air fooled~ · 1 Mar 2005, 4:14 pm

cos we only gt shit photos like yours😀😀😉😉😉hahahaha

WABaja · 1 Mar 2005, 4:27 pm

Least I put a pic of my car up instead of showing you what evryone ELSES car looks like...
If ya car's that good.... Put it up...
If Not, Buy a Baja...
You know you want to...
Just thinking of it as this:

"A Baja is a Buggy, that's reached Puberty and moved on"...😎

MikeM · 1 Mar 2005, 4:38 pm

Who said I wasn't posting a picture of my own buggy?

~air fooled~ · 1 Mar 2005, 4:39 pm

WABaja wrote:"A Baja is a Buggy, that's reached Puberty and moved on"...😎

.... pity the owners never reached it though:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P
hahahahhahahhahahahahhhhhhahahahahahahahahahhaha

kombibob · 1 Mar 2005, 4:48 pm

i have never owned a manx but owned a few baja's
but if someone said to you i will give you a off road vw and you can choose between a baja and a manx what would you choose?
i would say most people would choose a manx
but that doesnt mean bajas suck.

[Edited on 1-3-2005 by kombibob]

VWCOOL · 1 Mar 2005, 4:51 pm

Kroozin_Kikko wrote:i have a feeling this is going to get heated...

so lets start cooking!
go buy a real offroader! landcruiser baby!

lol... nah, Cruisers are for idiots. Go the Nissan Patrol!

Baja Wes · 1 Mar 2005, 5:02 pm

I can post pics of my own, unlike all the buggy guys that have to post pics of US buggies to look cool. You don't see us posting pics of US race Baja's... 😀

[Edited on 1-3-2005 by Baja Wes]

kombibob · 1 Mar 2005, 5:05 pm

a baja is half a baja bus
he he

twoguns · 1 Mar 2005, 6:05 pm

WABaja wrote:Something I noticed... the Buggie guys, are showing us pictire after picture, OF SOMEONE ELSES CAR.....!!!!! WTF's that about...???

[Edited on 1-3-2005 by WABaja]

two out of the four i posted are local cars...

and heres mine... better than any baja... but like its been said---- baja is half a baja bus! :P

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? · 1 Mar 2005, 6:43 pm

Better than any baja hay now that sounds like a challenge ah well no really any time you buggie guys want to go offroad and not just hard sand dunes stuff like where wes is in the first shot i would take you but i sold my baja but give me a few months and ill be back and keen and then we will see how good these so called invincable buggys are:vader

twoguns · 1 Mar 2005, 6:49 pm

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? wrote:Better than any baja hay now that sounds like a challenge ah well no really any time you buggie guys want to go offroad and not just hard sand dunes stuff like where wes is in the first shot i would take you but i sold my baja but give me a few months and ill be back and keen and then we will see how good these so called invincable buggys are:vader

sorry but i dont understand that kind of dribble... 😉 afterall the platforms are the same. so really anywhere you go i can go. any where a subi powered beastie baja goes, then the equivialant equiped buggy is gonna do it too. the diff is the buggy is gona do it in better style, asthetically. :thumb

my last trip to stockton turned sour after a road death at bulledelah. i tried goin the back way but not much luck, but i did snatch pull assist an ols couple in a ea falcon slippin and sinkin in mud. made to be used and abused!😎

DubCrazy · 1 Mar 2005, 7:41 pm

i think u can argue both sides to be honest and one side will never agree with the others.. at the end of the day they are all vws and thats what matters. the fact that a baja is better than a buggy by far doesn't really come into it cuz as hard as a buggy trys to be as good as a baja it is still a vw and thats cool.... heheee...

i am a baja man my self but any vw that goes off road and kicks arse on the tracks and shows the 4WD boys the REAL way to go is bloody ace !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now maybe we could have some fun witht his and on the next big meet off the offroad boys a little challange to see who can do what with beer as a prize and a bloody good laugh for all???

come on its a laugh no matter what we drive...

oh this is my old baja doing what bajas do best 😀

steff..............................

11CAB · 1 Mar 2005, 9:08 pm

I reckon they each have their own purpose....I've got one of all three......The Baja Bus takes ALL our camping gear for 5 up the beach each year......The Baja bug will take the family to the more difficult offroad expeditions.....and The Manx will be the fun machine for me and the missus.....:thumb

11CAB · 1 Mar 2005, 9:09 pm

Baja Bug

11CAB · 1 Mar 2005, 9:10 pm

Manx

Baja Wes · 1 Mar 2005, 9:49 pm

It's all just a bit of fun arguing both sides, we all know they're both cool.

And for all those that talk about daily driver buggies, my Baja has been for only car for 10 years. So don't tell me that "some local guys use their cars as daily drivers" :P

Granted I use the bike as daily transport, can't argue with 4.5L/100km fuel economy and 0-100kph in 3.9s 😀

Boozer · 1 Mar 2005, 11:59 pm

manx_xtc wrote:
Boozer wrote:Baja's are more versatile. I'll bet that there are more baja's being used as daily drivers (when mine's running it is...) than buggies.
Interesting Boozer.
We have 11 buggies used as daily or every second day drivers within 20mins from each other.
we only have 3 baja's soon to be 4

ah. even though this is just my OPINION i sorta meant Australia or world wide.

I just mean that, what would you rather leave at night at a train station or at a party?

VDUBXTC · 2 Mar 2005, 12:09 am

yeah Bajas are more common in QLD but down this way they are even rarer than the fibreglass buggies.

vw's are all the same when it comes to security so i would still take my buggy .
my green one i leave on the street all the time now. it hasn't moved any where.

Boozer · 2 Mar 2005, 12:41 am

fair enuf

twoguns · 2 Mar 2005, 8:31 am

I just mean that, what would you rather leave at night at a train station or at a party?

hahahaha! well that jsut ends the conversation right there...
so which is more appealing, is what youre saying! 😉 :thumb

twoguns · 2 Mar 2005, 8:32 am

hey jace, i dont htink your green one can move, can it? :P

VDUBXTC · 2 Mar 2005, 11:55 am

It does now wes 😀
The arse end is now 1" wider than it was originally,
Just got to stop the fuel from spraying all over the engine now:duh.

I knew i shouldn't of sent the red one up to QLD so soon:cry

VDUBXTC · 3 Mar 2005, 4:01 pm

mmm post dissopeared.

oh well, here is a pick of my green tub.
Not looking to healthy in the pic though

ancientbugger · 3 Mar 2005, 9:39 pm

It's funny reading this,some people really are actually taking it seriously. If money was no object and my missus more understanding I'd have at least one of all of them but life sucks so I'll have to put up with the buggy😎

They're better anyway😀

VDUBXTC · 3 Mar 2005, 11:44 pm

Not takeing it serrious,
I'm actually building a Baja now. Although it will never live in my stables, it is using all my spare buggy parts.

I owned a yellow and red Baja as my first vw and have often thought about buying or building another, but the fibreglass buggies apeal to me more.

wibble · 4 Mar 2005, 11:38 am

Ok, so the shorter wheel base (on most buggies) and probly a 1/4 of the blind spots in a buggy doesn't help off road huh? One of each would be nice but!

~air fooled~ · 4 Mar 2005, 12:09 pm

hahaha great point wibble! thats the clincher!

twoguns · 4 Mar 2005, 12:31 pm

whos taking it seriously. i dont think anyone is. after all they are all vw's and we all know buggies are better... 😀 😉 🙂

MUD BASHING ANYONE ?? · 4 Mar 2005, 5:53 pm

Nah we all know bajas are better lol anyways all of them have more good in them then the any 4wd and we can have a hell of alot more fun in theses little 2wds than going out and spending 60 grand on a forby that cant get were we do anyway
Tim

Mrs M · 25 Mar 2005, 7:53 pm

GO THE BAJA...........