Dodge Tomahawk
It looks like a motorcycle. It sounds like a supercar. It's not street legal in the US. You could, if you had one, only drive it on private roads or on a track. And you could do so at high speeds.
Very high speeds.
It's got 500 horsepower. It goes from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds. It has a theoretical top speed of over 400 miles an hour. And you can actually steer it.
And you could, at one time, actually buy one.
Car Lust? Motorcycle Lust? Hard to tell. Technically, it was considered
by Chrysler as a "concept motorcycle", but US law defines a motorcycle as
having no more than three wheels. Hence, to be street legal it would
have to meet all safety standards for automobiles. Which it obviously
can't. It's about the closest thing you can get to an engine with wheels.
And the engine is the 8.3 liter V10 Viper, mated to a manual 2-speed gearbox driving dual 110-link chains delivering 525 pound-feet of torque to the two rear wheels. The body and wheels are billet aluminum and the whole thing weighs 1500 pounds. Though it isn't technically a motorcycle -- a quadcycle is probably the most accurate -- it still turns like one, by leaning. 
Though it never went into production, Chrysler sold nine of them through Neiman Marcus for $550,000, billing it as "a pure mechanical sculpture and a joyous celebration of the artistry and emotion of design."
Well, yeah, that and it's wicked cool.
Wolfgang Bernhard, then COO, was supposedly keen on putting it into production at some point and the numbers I've seen tossed around had them being sold at somewhere south of $200,000.
So it's not very practical. But anyone paying that amount of money probably isn't much interested in comfort and practicality.
The video below was provided by AllPar.com who also host the photos seen here.
popothepoipo on March 06, 2009 at 01:42 AM
whateveryou say about the tomahawk, its one of the worlds fastest. bike.its as fast as a bullet train. yeh right!
popothepoipo on March 06, 2009 at 01:44 AM
kingof theroad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but if the rider has proper control this beast can turn
speedracer on March 30, 2009 at 04:40 PM
Fyi, I worked on the original Tomahawk and there were problems but it was drivable. All four tires were independent suspension which allowed it to turn although it was about a 27 foot radius, after the auto show the two front tires were traded for one single really wide tire which improved the turning significantly and made it a cycle again instead of a car. To my knowledge there were only three made, the concept vehicle and then two others both sold to the same person in California although they may have made more after i was out of the picture.
randy on April 27, 2009 at 07:34 AM
(I'm guessing that this locomotive comes with a round-house docking station - drive in and stop, the docking station turns 180 degrees, and you go back the way you came. )
lol funny i see how it turns tho still confused tho so maby there is a docking station. still a sweet ride for drag racing. lol
Digvijay Narwal on January 27, 2011 at 12:34 AM
I like these type of bikes.
This is amezing.
jeffrey m. conley on February 03, 2011 at 10:49 PM
hello! i had offered to take the tomahawk to the flats to back up there 3 or 400 mph claim but dear old dodge decided to just promote the bike on theoretical rather than have the paper to back it up. i think there full of shit . and dont try to play the non legal crap either a trike or some of the 4 wheeled bikes have no problem with the law---jeff