Dune buggy

[2] Bruce Meyers designed his fiberglass bodies as a "kit car", using the Volkswagen Beetle chassis.

[2] A sandrail is a lightweight vehicle similar to a dune buggy, but designed specifically for operation on open sand.

The advantage of this method is that the fabricator can change fundamental parts of the vehicle (usually the suspension and addition of a built-in roll cage).

Among the dune buggies used by the United States military is the Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicle.

In the United Kingdom, the SAS have used cut-down, light-weight all terrain vehicles for secret special operations "behind the lines" since early in World War II.

A long-range special desert operations vehicle was developed in 1992 and nicknamed "pink panthers" because of their color,[14] but these were only modified Land Rovers.