340mph Acabion GTBO Motorcycle Now In Production
Get a load of this: the cockpit-like Acabion GTBO features a a 750bhp, turbocharged Hayabusa engine that is capable of hurling the bike down the road at 545km/h with a 30 second 0-300mph acceleration time—and, amazingly, that speed is capped. If all of that wasn’t eye popping enough, the bike is also fuel efficient. It can get 100mpg at 100mph and 25 at 250.
Designer Peter Maskus is releasing the Acabion to the public in extremely limited quantities, although the price is a little steep at €1.87million or around $3 million. Plus, you have to wait for 3 years while the bike is built. Its probably just as well though. I mean,where would you drive it? And even if you could, the odds seem pretty high that you would end up as a stain on the road should you ever decide to open it up. [Acabion via Hell for Leather via Jalopnik]
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Amazing bike.
But the truth is, the inventor and manufacturer are idiots! In fact their greed is deplorable! I pity the fool who buys one. The price is unreasonable; I estimated profits over $2.9 million a unit!
They have hit upon a truly innovative design and could build affordable transportation for less than $7500.00 per unit, while bring to the transportation market a real vehicle to make an impact on the environment, advance roadway transportation by reducing traffic congestion, and oil and gasoline consumption rates. They could offer vehicles that achieve 150+ mpg using smaller more efficient engines, incorporating available technology and recyclable materials, and have them coming off the assembly line before the end of 2008, while still being extremely profitable on a per unit basis.
No these nut jobs throw it all away and miss the opportunity to employ others and mass market a vehicle for commuters world wide, while world economies and the standard of living around the world. They want to build a couple of units for the rich and wealth, and ignore the obvious need of the market and greatest challenge of their time doing so, that being dwindling non renewable energy recourses and high energy cost.
I think the claims are exaggerated. 100mpg at 100mph not sure if anyone has met that at 60mph. With a low capacity economy engine – not one developing 750bhp. Divide the claims by 3 and be closer to the truth I think.