BMW turbo triple, 228 HP, 236 ft/lb torque

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Seen the new BMW triple? Fifteen-hundred cc's, sports a big turbo, and it produces 228 HP and 236 ft./lb/ torque! You'd expect it to be in a ZX-14 crushing uber-sports bike, right, Certainly not a touring bike!

Well, no, it's in a hybrid car! Yes, that's right, a $100,000 hybrid car. Not a 'take-no-prisoners' two-wheeled transporter inching closer to turn-key warp-factor seven mode. A hybrid! The 'tree-huggers' won! Or, so it seems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSVfdUiQ_4&feature=player_embedded

See for yourself! Now, who's gonna slide this powerplant into a two-wheeled chassis?
 

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