Thursday 30th October 2008

What the Fuoss..?

Curious new German road racer

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Feels fast until you're overtaken by a Focus

German engineer Dieter Fuoss has dedicated five years of his life to creating a minimalist road-legal Track Car that weighs just 300kgs and is flat out at 90mph.

It’s not for us to ask why Dr. Dieter (Dip. Ing.) opted for a 42hp 400cc Suzuki motorcycle engine when the Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R is available with a perfectly respectable 194bhp. Still, 90mph might be fun with tightly clenched buttocks scraping that close to the tarmac. If you’ve got €29,000 burning a hole, you can find the good doctor here: www.fuoss-fahrzeugtechnik.de

[Essex Exile]

Buy a lawnmower and be done with it

[Mr Gear]

That looks like an enormous amount of fun, and if everyone drove one on the commute to work, it would save a lot of congestion.

[Frimley111R]

Bloody expensive little plaything.

[CAD Monkey]

Get that on a kart circuit - loads of fun!

[kambites]

I wonder if the 'busa would fit as a straight engine swap.

[VladD]

I like it, but as has been said, it's a lot of money for a little car.

[[AJ]]

That engine costs about 50 cents, so what has the other €28,899.50 gone on?

[Davi]

[AJ] said:

That engine costs about 50 cents, so what has the other €28,899.50 gone on?

dunno, but it obviously wasn't designers fees...

[mark69sheer]

Why bother. You could make a go kart with equal performance road legal for far less than that.

[andyturner]

Mr Gear said:

That looks like an enormous amount of fun, and if everyone drove one on the commute to work, it would save a lot of congestion.

How?

[bob1179]

I love the idea, don't think I'd want to spend that sort of money though.

[DeadMeat_UK]

Wonder if that'll fit in the back of any 4WD wagons...

Huge fun by the looks.

[jmatras]

Scary. It should have a full cage. It looks like a champ car version of a Legends racer, though not as well done. Besides, there's already a Legends version of Champ cars: Midgets. And they put the engine where it belongs, between the drivers legs.

[MrTappets]

Flawed genius

[mark69sheer]

Unfortunately that will be a killer.
If the front is low enough to go under HGV tail or sidebars then its death on wheels.

[Mr Gear]

andyturner said:

Mr Gear said:

That looks like an enormous amount of fun, and if everyone drove one on the commute to work, it would save a lot of congestion.

How?

How do you think Sherlock? It's not exactly big is it?

[E4UAN]

Despite the small amount of power, 90mph still doesn't sound very fast considering how small and light it must be? Unless maybe it's been limited on purpose?

[900T-R]

Like the idea but methinks there's a 0 too much in the price.

[alman]

Looks like fun, bloody scary/dangerous around normal traffice though

[general190]

kambites said:

I wonder if the 'busa would fit as a straight engine swap.

Personnaly i would like the ZZ-1400 lump please!? or the Ducati 1050R V-twin (actualy as powerful as a GSX-R @ 180Bhp lump but sounds way better!!)

Or if i was being realy flash a Ducati Desmosedici RR engine, which is basically a Moto GP bike engine!!

On a more serious point, the power to weigh ratio will still make that quite quick, should be hot hatch acceleration but then you should be able to keep it pinned through the twistys to tho!! Although on the track i think it will feel underpowered and asmatic.

Realy should have been made with a GSX-R engine!! or if he wanted to keep the weight/size down a GSX-R600 engine would have done, those have 98Bhp or again go for a Ducati 1050 V-twin, would be more expensive but also more exotic!