Sweet Digital Mockups of Fantasy Ferrari Motorcycle
By Chuck Squatriglia
Categories: Motorcycles
Never in a million years will Ferrari build a motorcycle -- and with Ducatis being so awesome who needs it to? -- but it's fun to think about what might roll out of Maranello if it ever decided to give two-wheelers a try.
Many have envisioned such a machine and a few have actually built one or two of them, the best being the Ferrari-sanctioned bike Kay Engineering built in honor of Enzo Ferrari. But few have been so wild as what Amir Glinik's come up with. The Israeli industrial engineer started toying with the idea in 2005 and has been working on it ever since.
"Vintage and modern Ferrari projectes influence my design," he says on his web site. "It's a mix of what I find to be the best Ferrari lines with the latest technology I could think of in terms of engine, gear and driving management."
Frankly, the body doesn't quite work for us, and with that wheelbase the bike would handle more like an Escalade than an Enzo. But the engine. Oh, wow, the engine. It's a work of art. And isn't that what Italian machinery is all about?
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