2011 Spartan-V sports car with Ducati 1198 engine

We know that when you install motorcycle engines in cars have problems of small resource as the engine and clutch. To drag a couple of hundred pounds and several tons – two completely different things. Another thing with sports car – their weight is reduced so much that can compare with the motorcycle. Therefore, the phenomenon of motorcycle engines in the sports car, smart, and other small cars quite frequently. Yes, and I am a sinner – frequented thoughts take, has finally, some buggy and killed sportbike, but cross them, understated bodywork and installing large tires. But the Austrian KTM, which seems to be God himself commanded to use motorcycle engine in the development of a sports car X-Bow, do not become as well established a four-car unit, obtained from Volkswagen. Toyota also for his IQ uses operating time Yamaha, but, again, not in pure form.

Nevertheless, occasionally come up quite real evidence of reasonableness of such a mix of technologies here. A striking example of this is the latest sports car, descended from the factory Australian company Spartan Motors. Model Spartan-V, the central element of which is motor sportbike Ducati 1198, will fill up rather short list of relatively accessible cars-shaped cars like the Ariel Atom, KTM X-Bow, Lotus 2-Eleven or a Caterham R500.
Despite the fact that the car is not no doors, no roof, and the protection of the environment is only a small windscreen, sports car will be allowed to vyzdu with a track on ordinary roads. From the basic characteristics of Spartan-V, stands out power to 170 hp provided by the heart of Italian bikes, the weight of 300 kilograms, the maximum speed of 278 km / h and accelerated up to hundreds less than 3 seconds. The entire car body is made of carbon fiber, there can also find 17-inch wheels, Wilwood brakes, and two racing seats Sparco.

We know that when you install motorcycle engines in cars have problems of small resource as the engine and clutch. To drag a couple of hundred pounds and several tons – two completely different things. Another thing with sports car – their weight is reduced so much that can compare with the motorcycle. Therefore, the phenomenon of motorcycle engines in the sports car, smart, and other small cars quite frequently. Yes, and I am a sinner – frequented thoughts take, has finally, some buggy and killed sportbike, but cross them, understated bodywork and installing large tires. But the Austrian KTM, which seems to be God himself commanded to use motorcycle engine in the development of a sports car X-Bow, do not become as well established a four-car unit, obtained from Volkswagen. Toyota also for his IQ uses operating time Yamaha, but, again, not in pure form.

Nevertheless, occasionally come up quite real evidence of reasonableness of such a mix of technologies here. A striking example of this is the latest sports car, descended from the factory Australian company Spartan Motors. Model Spartan-V, the central element of which is motor sportbike Ducati 1198, will fill up rather short list of relatively accessible cars-shaped cars like the Ariel Atom, KTM X-Bow, Lotus 2-Eleven or a Caterham R500.
Despite the fact that the car is not no doors, no roof, and the protection of the environment is only a small windscreen, sports car will be allowed to vyzdu with a track on ordinary roads. From the basic characteristics of Spartan-V, stands out power to 170 hp provided by the heart of Italian bikes, the weight of 300 kilograms, the maximum speed of 278 km / h and accelerated up to hundreds less than 3 seconds. The entire car body is made of carbon fiber, there can also find 17-inch wheels, Wilwood brakes, and two racing seats Sparco.