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The Acabion GTBO road streamliner

By Robert Ursache, Gadgets Editor

27th of March 2007, 15:01 GMT

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This machine has the most outstanding set of statics you'll ever see on a motorcycle-like vehicle. Yes, it's road registrable too. It has an extremely low frontal area and the aerodynamics of a bullet. It's much lighter than a Formula one race car, but it has much less

rolling resistance.

The Acabion is powered by a 700 bhp turbocharged motor. That's enough to give it a power-to-weight ratio better than every vehicle conceived for the road usage. Swiss-based Acabion claimed that the thing can reach 450 Km/h from standstill in under 19 seconds.

This is a two-plus-two-wheel concept: it has 2 side wheels that will never touch the road when the vehicle reaches high speeds. At low speeds, it will keep all the four wheels spinning. The vehicle can come in 2 flavors: lightweight racing-version (pictured) or a model featuring heavier but more practical struts with a compact hydraulic drive, so you can handle it easily (so they say). It runs on a turbocharged 700 HP 1.3-liter Hayabusa engine. The power-to-weight of the GTBO is 0.51 kg per horsepower. That outruns even the Ultima GTr (1.38 kg/bhp) or the Bugatti Veryon (1.89 kg/bhp). It also looks better than the 1000cc road bikes' stats or any Formula 1 car. This also makes it the world's most unsafe vehicle.

Acabion wants to build 26 GTBOs over the next four years. Their aim is to offer a limited edition, a very expensive road streamliner with Swiss precision engineering. Any news regarding the crash test? Nope. Anyway, I'm sure Swiss clocks will tell you that's not your time to die.

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