Archive for January, 2006
Zolfe Orange - Hayabusa Powered Car
24 January 2006Here’s something called the Zolfe Orange. It’s a composite bodied car over a tubular space frame with integral roll cage. Displayed at the Autosport show, the Zolfe has a 175 horsepower Hayabusa engine with a six speed gearbox for 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, top speed is 135mph. The turbo option ups horsepower to the 300-350 [...]
Designer Fur Helmets
24 January 2006Geez, the places we go so you don’t have to! So, your girl says she would ride a motorcycle but helmets are so unfashionable, well, we have the answer right off the runways in Milan, fur helmets. Yep, it’s the fashion accessory we’ve all been waiting for, looks like you went for a ride in [...]
Buell XBRR
23 January 2006Buell is building a factory racer for Formula Xtreme. The non street legal racer has been designed and purpose built to compete with the other teams at the highest levels. Specs are 150 horsepower from the 1339cc V twin, 362 pounds, five speed, chain drive on 17 inch wheels. The carbon fiber bodywork was refined [...]
Hotrodhawg - Harley Powered Roadster
23 January 2006Here’s the latest in the ever growing collection of motorcycle powered cars. The Hotrodhawg is an open wheel two seat roadster powered by a Harley Davidson V twin engine. The tube chassis is covered with a fiberglass body, there’s a 3 speed automatic transmission with overdrive and an 8 gallon fuel tank for a [...]
Barrett Jackson - How Rare is Rare?
23 January 2006Did you watch the Barrett Jackson auction? I did, and I noticed an odd phenomenon, the huge number of perfect specimens of the same “rare” cars. A great example was the continuous stream of 427/435 horsepower mid sixties Corvettes. Now those are supposed to be a bit scarce, but there were so many coming across [...]
Honda Monpal ML200 4-Wheel Scooter
23 January 2006Honda has just introduced a 4 wheel electric scooter, a personal mobility vehicle for those who have a difficult time getting around. If you’ll recall, we mentioned Yamaha was going into the electric wheelchair market because of its potential for huge profits but it looks like Honda has an entry ready to go now. As [...]
Camel Yamaha
23 January 2006The new Camel Yamaha team of Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards rolled out their new colors at the Sepang test. The dominant bright yellow color will be very recognizable and is quite a contrast to the former blue theme. I guess that Rossi replica suit will have to be redesigned.
Camel is the new sponsor as [...]
Cyclone Y40R 2.0 liter V8
22 January 2006Here’s a sweet looking 2 liter V8 called the Cyclone Y40R. Specs on the website are 302 horsepower, 167 foot pounds at 8500rpm and 108 foot pounds at only 2000 rpm. This is with a standard carb setup and they have photos of a fuel injected version but no power figures yet. It looks similar [...]
