Palate Cleanser 3: Fastest? "Mobility scooter" or a hi-end sportscar? - Granite Grok

Palate Cleanser 3: Fastest? “Mobility scooter” or a hi-end sportscar?

OK, not exactly your granny’s “hover round”…

Sidenote: you notice those commercials for those power chairs that were “available at little or no cost to you” seem to be gone?  Yeah, busted allegedly for Medicare fraud. I always wondered how friends and co-workers could afford houses WAY more than what I had even as our incomes were similar – then 2007 happened.  Same deal here – TANSTAAFL.  Imagine that – one more instance of “if it’s too good to be true” turned out to be “too expensive for taxpayers” with “the con-men in the middle”  finally getting crushed.

…so, what’s the back story?

Built by a team of tinkerers at Garage Insanity on the Isle of Man, the superpowered mobility scooter contains a Suzuki GSX-600F motorcycle engine and can do 0-60 in about three seconds and hit speeds topping about 156 miles per hour…

…During our chat, McNeil nonchalantly mentioned that the scooter once did a quarter mile in 13.281 seconds at 102.2 miles per hour. There’s only one word for that: wowza. On August 31, the team will attempt a Guinness World Record on the Isle of Man and may beat the existing world’s fastest mobility scooter‘s speed of 72 miles per hour.

In a hilariously insane video making the rounds today, the scooter takes on a 250-horsepower Nissan Skyline R33 GTS-T in a quarter-mile run.

(H/T: C/NET)

 

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