When building a fast vehicle, achieving a favourable power to weight ratio is key. If you can put a fairly powerful engine inside a fairly light chassis, you're guaranteed fairly terrifying performance -- and that's exactly what French tuner Lazareth has attempted with the Wazuma VF8.
This, says Autoblog, is a quad bike that's powered by a Ferrari engine. Let that sink in for a second. Swill it around your brain and let the cocktail of excitement and pant-soiling horror brew a while. When you're done, you may pick your jaw up off the floor and read on.
The engine, a 3-litre V8, was likely extracted from a Ferrari Dino or 308. According to Lazareth, it produces 250 horsepower, all of which is channeled through a sequential gearbox sourced from a BMW M3. Lazareth won't tell us how fast it is (we suspect nobody's been stupid enough try a full throttle run) but the entire contraption weighs just 650Kg, giving it a power to weight ratio of almost 384hp per tonne, so it's no slouch.
The whole thing runs on slick racing tyres, rides on 18-inch Momo rims and it's hauled to a, no doubt brisk, standstill thanks to huge 324mm ventilated brake discs and Brembo calipers
If you want a Wazuma VF8 for yourself, be prepared to fork over quite a bit of money -- about as much as you would for a proper Ferrari, in fact. Lazareth is selling the thing for
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