The Hurricane 250 is an outstanding buggy for high-speed, flat-out driving over level ground and hills of modest steepness.
It shares a feature/weakness with its big brother, the Hurricane 800, in that it has an open differential rather than a locked rear end. It is also geared a bit taller than our 250cc chain-drive models.
The open differential has pros and cons. The upside is that you will experience significantly less tire wear on dry paved surfaces and the buggy will be much safer and easier to control on wet concrete and asphalt (locked rear ends tend to fishtail when accelerating out of corners on wet pavement). The downside of an open diff is that you will tend to get stuck easier/more often than with a chain-drive buggy having a solid rear axle or locked rear end.
The tall gearing simply means that it cannot climb as well as our 250cc chain-drive buggies (less weight for a given slope, or a lesser slope for a given payload). This can be compensated for through the use of high performance parts such as variator weights, 32mm carburetor, performance clutch, high-performance air filter/carb jets. These mods increase low-end torque enabling you to climb steeper hills. Another method of producing bottom end power is to replace the stock tires with ones of smaller diameter.
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VEHICLE SPECIFICATIONS
CHASSIS & SUSPENSION
Front Suspension
Independent unequal-length A-arms with adjustable preload coil-over-shocks
Rear Suspension
Independent swing-arms with adjustable-preload coil-over-shocks
If you don't like it, ship it back! We will cheerfully refund your money with no hassle and no restocking charge. See our Legals page for terns & conditions.
A note to our new customers of AB Powersports:
AB Powersports has no affiliation with The Awesome Buggy Company.
AB powersports has purchased the web site www.awesomebuggy.com earlier this year. While we welcome Awesomebuggys old customers to AB Powersports we have no obligation to honor any past warranty issues from a company that is no longer in business.
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Will will not only match any of our competitors' documented vehicle prices, but we will give you a discount amonting to 15% of the difference! See our Legals page for details!
The Myth of MSRP
And while we're discussing prices, we'd like to expose the myth of Manufacturers's Suggested Retail Prices (MSRP) for Chinese-manufactured go karts, dune buggies, motorcycles, and motorscooters. In a nutshell, anyone who claims that an MSRP exists fior one of these vehicles is lying through their teeth! We refuse to mislead our customers by comparing our prices to some fictitious MSRP trying to decieve you with fake "savings."
AwesomeBuggy.com ships its dune buggies, mini sand rails, go karts, and motorscooterrs free of charge to your door anywhere in the United States except Hawaii & Alaska. However, if the truck cannot get to your house, it will be shipped to the trucking company's terminal located nearest to your residence. Call us for additional information.
Pick up is available at our warehouse. Call us for details.
All dune buggy parts and go kart parts are shipped to your door via UPS and are NOT covered by our free shipping for vehicles.
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The first one is to check out our tech support menu in the main menu above. There you will find our unique visual assembly guides that portray with detailed photographs (and, as time permits, web video) detailing the step-by-step process of taking a buggy out of the crate and making it ready to drive. As of this time, we have assembly guides for several buggies, as well as one showing how to install our high-performance GY6 intake and exhaust system kit on a Magnum 150 buggy.
The second one is to call us and one of our technicians will be happy to assist you with your problem. Beware of buggy dealers who claim that they have "certified technicians" because, when it comes to these types of vehicles, no such certifications exist! Our technical folks who take your calls get their hands dirty working on these machines daily and know them inside and out, so you can be confident that you can and will get the assistance you need.
Before we add any buggy to our product list, we take it out to our "secret Arizona desert test site" and simply run the whee out of it! We climb hills, crawl rocks, descend cliffs, and jump the buggies 6+ feet into the air, all for the purpose of finding their performance limitations and literally trying to break them to determine their weak points. We also test for reliability and comfort.
Why go to all this trouble? So that when you buy one of our buggies, you know you are getting a proven vehicle that you can count on for years of reliable service and enjoyment.
If, after checking out our information here at AwesomeBuggy.com, you are still unsure or confused as to which buggy to buy and are needing some more input so that you can make a better-informed decision, we recommend the gang over at the BuggyNews.com forum. BuggyNews.com is a non-commercial (meaning they have nothing to sell and therefore can be counted on to give you the straight skinny with no axes to grind or ulterior motives). They are a great source of recommendations on various buggies and buggy dealers as well as a fund of general information on all things "buggy."
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your door via UPS and are NOT covered by our free shipping for vehicles.
