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)
