**** Rocket Anyone?

Spooge

<div class="IPBDescription">Better hold on tight!</div> Ok. The infamous swear filter ruined my topic. You can guess what it says.

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Dodge Tomahawk
Hot Damn! Essentially an 8.3-litre V10 Viper engine on wheels, the Dodge Tomahawk is clean sheet approach to personal transportation. Dodge design chief Trevor Creed calls the Tomahawk "an icon of extreme thinking? encapsulating the Dodge brand philosophy which always challenges us to grab life by the horns."

Grab on is right! The 680kg Tomahawk can do 0-100km/h in 2.5 seconds on its way to a theoretical top speed "potentially more than 400 miles per hour (644km/h)". And it's not a lifeless design exercise, the Tomahawak actually runs, and was ridden onstage by Chrysler chief operating officer Wolfgang Bernard in requisite leather jacket.

Will this concept vehicle make it to production? Dieter Zetsche, president of Chrysler group, said "maybe", though if the Tomahawk ever does the numbers will be highly exclusive.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src='http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/content/feature/detroit/DodgeTomahawk.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Check this site for some nifty new prototypes: <a href='http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/clubhouse/FeatureStory.asp?ID=4640' target='_blank'>Car Point</a>

Liger

indeed... very obvious if you've ever heard that name for high power bikes before...

and I have to say, the name for that area is not a word of curse... although it is home to the parts that have many a name that's involved in cursing...

TychoCelchuuu

It's Back to the Future, but futureized.

Gah.

RPG_Jssmfulhud

I've seen that long before in a newspaper... And yeah, it's a monster... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Talesin

I prefer the solid cast steel bike with a surplus HIND-D diesel engine mounted in it. Only thing that can catch them is a jet, or John Carmack's car going flat-out. Their theoretical top speed is above Mach 1. Fine red mist, anyone? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

GWAR

<!--QuoteBegin--Talesin+Jul 12 2003, 09:41 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Jul 12 2003, 09:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I prefer the solid cast steel bike with a surplus HIND-D diesel engine mounted in it. Only thing that can catch them is a jet, or John Carmack's car going flat-out. Their theoretical top speed is above Mach 1. Fine red mist, anyone? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
you have the specs on that engine? I think the torque alone could turn a stupid civic into a twizzler <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Moquiao

i saw this a few days back... in some magasine.. looks BEASTY.

Salty

1- 100km/s in 2.5 sec :O thats an average of just over 4 gs the whole way!

Gnatsum

Looks like one of those light cycles from tron.

Narfwak

Dude, the term "donkey" rocket can be used in the HL "speak" command. Try it sometime with admin_execall - endless fun <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Jasp

That has been out for at least 1-2years it began with a dude asking them to build him a bike with a dodge viper engine they did but they gave the guy a warning not to drive it and if he did they are not responsable for whatever happens to him.

Altho the model they made him looked abit diffrent with only 1 big wheel at each side but the concept is the same.

MedHead

Man, I saw that way back in January. It was at the Detroit International Auto Show.

TenSix

Ha!

This is pretty funny, in Popular Science they are quoted as saying its top speed was 300MPH, technology must be really going fast for them to attain an extra 100MPH in the few months since that issue was published.

And even the claims of 300MPH are doubted, not only would it not be safe (its physically impossible to steer or even stay on any object moving 300MPH like that, let alone 400MPH!), but most people think its top speed is more around 200MPH.

I would buy one if I had the money, but if I had that much money I would likely be buying a custom made <a href='http://www.chipfoose.com/' target='_blank'>Foose</a> similar to the one below (named the Grand Master, which has never lost any car competition it has been entered in).

<img src='http://www.curtsrodandcustom.com/images/gmaster/caraward2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

lolfighter

<!--QuoteBegin--Salty+Jul 13 2003, 03:58 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Salty @ Jul 13 2003, 03:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 1- 100km/s in 2.5 sec :O thats an average of just over 4 gs the whole way! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Did a four-g turn once. No piece of cake for a solidly average person like me. Glad to know that these will be produced in very limited numbers, if at all. They're bound to cause accidents with people speeding around at speeds of 300 kmh. Anyone else think that it looks like a chromy Tron lightcycle?