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March 27th, 2007, 15:01 GMT · By Robert Ursache

450km/h Vehicle For Sale

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The Acabion GTBO road streamliner
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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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Comment #1 by: Wowman! on 22 Jan 2010, 15:32 UTC reply to this comment

Awesome i want one! (and a bullet proof helmet and vest and....


Comment #2 by: Buz on 12 Oct 2011, 22:26 UTC reply to this comment

I'd like to know where a GTBO Acabion can be purchased in the USA, and what they cost.

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