FunCup Car - its little, its light, and its FUN

[sumyungguy]

Thursday night got a call with an invite to cover this car, one catch, gotta drive to Willow Springs the next day (5hr drive). So Friday morning me and my buddy, the journalist to cover the story , head down to the track to cover. Here is the story, Budget Bug: Grassroots racing reborn with the Fun Cup. When we finished up with the on track shooting and my buddy ripped around the track for a bit, I got to jump in a drivers suit and take the car out for some hot laps. Quick, fun, and extremely predictable little car.

Some of my favs from the set that can be found in the above article..























My buddy picked up my cam when I was out running some laps..

[Roadsterd]

That is sweet. I've always had a thing for track bugs.

[quikveedb2]

hawt. yes, they are predictable; sure to go ass first if you're too heavy on the go pedal.

[Victell]

you almost got a shot of then engine

nm, shot of the engine in the article. good pics.

[Mfever]

I have seen that thing live in action at dubfest last year. Very very tail happy. He actually spun out and broke a piece of the fiber glass body.

[Teaguer]

That thing is pretty cool .
Looks like it has an IS lip moulded to the front fenders . :D

Hahaha ...is that Gopro Hero mounted on the roof ? :D

[Teaguer]

Just checked out the article , good read .

What engine are they running and what tire size ?

[Justin B]

Yeah, cool little cars. I saw these a few months or a year ago or so at the main website-

http://www.fun-cup.com/about.html

They dont list the tire size as far as I can tell, but its a 2000cc VW Golf engine.

[sumyungguy]

Its in the article... :p

BFGoodrich g-Force sport rubber (sized 195/50R15 up front and 205/50R15 in the rear)

With a 140-hp, water-cooled, 2.0-liter four sourced from a VW Golf

[Justin B]

Oh imagine that :D

[fretburnr]

looks like a lot of fun!

hawt. yes, they are predictable; sure to go ass first if you're too heavy on the go pedal.

From what I can tell in the pics, it seems the trailing arm front and swing axle rear suspensions of the normal beetles have been replaced by macpherson/chapman strut setups, respectively. It's probably quite planted.

[quikveedb2]

wow, good eye, i'd love to drive one! i was speaking from experience in mostly stock suspended rear engine veedubs. regardles, the laws of physics always prevail.

[Teaguer]

Its in the article... :p

Well I didn't read read it ....I just kinda skimmed it . :p

Man how can you not like the bug ?
Those things are awesome and everybody except for the most noobiest of noobs has some sort of history with them .

Check out this vid from last years final 25hr race :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o_mj1qyEDRY

Thats is just badass seeing that many of them on the grid , think it was like 175 or so .
Check out the poor guy in the green/white car , he spins it and literally gets passed by like 100 cars . :D

[JasonC]

Very cool

[Charlie]

looks like a lot of fun!



From what I can tell in the pics, it seems the trailing arm front and swing axle rear suspensions of the normal beetles have been replaced by macpherson/chapman strut setups, respectively. It's probably quite planted.

It's probably pretty similar to a super beetle, not a type 1.

-Charlie