Some people say that you can’t buy happiness. I’m afraid I have to disagree. Money can indeed buy happiness; it doesn’t even have to be much of it. For example, this home-built, chopped, and caged Audi A6 exocar buggy costs just over $4,700. Driving this car looks like a lot of fun, and you might not be able to do it without smiling. This building in Poland is based on a 1995 Audi A6 (C4 type). Stancol, a Polish company that builds cars, removed most of the body, leaving only the floor and the front end. For it to look more like a car, he made a new tubular steel frame and cage and put skin from a B9-generation Audi A4 on the front and back. It looked badass because the steel tubes were painted black. Both the headlights and the taillights work. The car has a Polish license plate and is still registered with a “complete set” of papers, as Google Translate says. It might say that it can be driven on public roads, but isn’t that the point of this project? The owner says the A6’s regular 2.8-liter V6 engine makes 193 horsepower. That V6 doesn’t sound great, but with so little weight to move, no full hood to hide the noise, and a unique exhaust, it sounds great. This buggy sounds like it’s being pushed by something much stranger as it goes down dirt roads. So it’s a real off-road buggy. It has a slightly lowered suspension, a five-speed manual gearbox, and Quattro all-wheel drive. This Audi A6 buggy is mostly a C4-gen A6 with a body made of tubular steel and body parts from a B9 A4. Few things make it stand out. That looks like a lot of fun in real life, even though it looks wild on paper. If Stancol’s idea could be bought in the US, it would cost about $4,700, making my wallet very nervous. I took this to Poland to tear up some race stages, so if I don’t talk to you for a while, it’s because I was there.
