Siegfried Rudolf, just some bloke who owns the Australian custom car shop, Carmaxx Classics, was coming out of the dunny one afternoon, when he noticed an old Volkswagen Beetle parked next to a Porsche Boxster. He thought to himself, Crikey, that Boxster looks a lot like a bloody squashed bug, and thus the Bugster was born.
Using the chassis and shell of a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle, Rudolph fitted it with a 3.2-liter flat six pulled from a 2000 Porsche Boxster S. Next went in a six-speed transmission from the Boxster, followed by its steering gear, ABS brake system, stability control, adjustable suspension, and 18-inch alloys. A custom exhaust was later fitted to the bug, along with airbags and a custom computer tune that manages somewhere around 270 ponies.
Rudolf claims the car will do 0-60 in less than 5-seconds, which sounds about right for a chassis that just barely tips the scales at 2,400 lbs. While this car was originally put together as a goof, the idea has since caught on, and Rudolf plans on creating a few more of these for any interested customers (a.k.a. bloke’s and sheilah’s). One alteration he’d like to make for a future Bugster is swap in the running gear from a Porsche 911 GT3.
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