Acabion GTBO 70

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The what?

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Here's the numbers for you...

Engine: 1.3 litre Suzuki motorbike engine, turbocharged.
Power: 690hp.
What?: Yes, really.
0-60mph: No clue.
0-280mph: 19s
Ex-squeeze me: 0-280mph in 19s.
Top speed: 375mph.
Fuel economy: 70.5mpg combined.
Do me a lemon: No, seriously. 70.5mpg

This thing also comes with a 150 litre boot, an electric motor for low speed driving and the stabiliser wheels retract when in motion above "walking pace".

Unveiled at the Geneva motorshow, and Acabion is taking orders now. You can have a detuned 375hp/344mph version, if you'd prefer something tamer though.
 
http://www.acabion.com/
Would you really want to go that fast in that.
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As for the idea of the car, it's fast, economical, light, it's got it all, supposedly. It's an odd machine, If they can do what they claim, I'd love to see it produced, though I don't see it being very practical for current road networks.
 
Holy crap. That's insane. :eek:

How can that tiny rear wheel put down 690hp????
 
if you buy it, you are only buying death itself in my view :scared: !! it that contrast its a bit like a quadbike really...
But 70.mpg and top speed of 375mph is amazing!!!!
 
And it's a two-seater to boot! 👍

So, that's the hull sorted. Now I just need to attach some wings and I'll have liftoff!

Not for very long with the limited traction that comes as a side-effect from having no wheels on the ground, but still, liftoff none the less. :crazy:

Any word on price and/or numbers to be built?
 
But seriously folks...

With Boston drivers, I'd have to have life insurance and they'd simply not worry about car insurance. Anything I hit wouldn't get a dent, anything hit me - I'm dead.

In all seriousness, its about time someone melded the electronics of a hybrid onto a Bike frame. If a Harley can fit a V8, why not have a straight 4 w/ electronic assist?
 
690hp from a 1.3 liter engine? Good lord...

I'd love to see one in action though; see if it can do what the manufacturer claims. Handling and braking can't be that swift with those tiny tires though. Airbrakes would have been a very welcome feature... so would have a parachute...

A motorcycle with a closed cockpit and training wheels; interesting idea.
 
I want it. Have the performance figures been tested or is it just theoretical? Is the picture a running car or a mock-up?
 
I can imagine you going through town at about 5mph (you know, about to stop?), fast enough for the wheels to be up, and some kid runs to it and pushes you over. x_x
 
mizxecio
I find those performance figures a little hard to believe.

It's vapourware IMHO.
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this one might be, but I've seen videos of vehicles that follow the same build concept with a fully enclosed shell over a motorcycle. Hopefully someone like the folks at Top Gear will get to play with one XD
 
What kind of performance can you get out of the little engine though? I'm figuring unless your at the salt flats, theres no way to use the performance at hand, and you'd be stuck using the smaller engine in the city, and maybe touch on the larger engine on some highways.

CF shell or not, you'll still feel it when you collide, unless it fills with styrofoam or jelly when your about to crash, I can't see you being able to walk away from many accidents.

So really, my question is, whats the point?! :odd:
 
690bhp from a 1.3ltr engine is never going to be a smooth delivery, not even in something so light. Do the two little outriggers always stay in contact with the road? - if not then its a bike not a car, and if they do then its still a bike - but with stabalisers.

Doesn't matter how quick it is, i don't want to seen in a bike with stabalisers!
 
mizxecio
I find those performance figures a little hard to believe.

It's vapourware IMHO.
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Shall we engage in some maths-play then?

Acabion give figures for weight, Cd (coefficient of drag) and frontal area of 300kg, 0.14 and 0.59 square metres. We can just quickly Imperialify them to 661lb and 6.35 square feet.

Rolling resistance is approximately 1.3% of weight - 8.9lb - at any speed.
Air resistance at 375mph is 320lb, because the "car" presents so little of itself to the air (calculation is Cd x frontal area (in square feet) x 0.00256 x speed x speed).

This means that at 375mph the vehicle needs to overcome about 329lb of resistance from the air and the ground. This requires 329*375/375 horsepower, or, more simply 329*1... 329hp, at the wheels or, since it's MR, about 400hp at the crank.

The "car" has... 690hp.

They say that it will hit 450km/h with a governor limited 200PS, The numbers say that this is 187lb of resistance and requires 140 wheel horses or 161 crank horses. No problem!
 
It's all fine and dandy that it has that capabiliy to go that fast but where would you use that power, only a drag strip or salt flats is all I can think of.
 

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