This is the pinnacle of insane power-to-weight ratios. Meet the Wazuma quadbike built by French automobile and motorcycle builder Lazareth. In pure engineering ingenuity, Lazareth has managed to shoehorn an entire BMW V12 engine into the Wazuma . And to keep the environmentalist at bay, Lazareth has tuned the engine to run on eco-friendly E85 ethanol.
So why use ethanol in a machine that has obviously been built with nothing else in mind but performance? One possibility is that E85 has a superior octane rating which allows the engine to run a higher compression ratio than normal petrol.
But here’s the downside, like all engineering marvels, it comes at a price – 200,000 Euros to be exact – that’s nearly a million ringgit before taxes!! There are just two things that baffle me, how do they keep the immense heat that the V12 generates from frying the rider and how the hell are you supposed to get comfortable in such a riding position? And they expect people to pay 200,000 Euros for that? You wouldn’t get past 20km before you need to stretch. It surely is a track biased machine. Check out the video below to see for yourself.