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Identity crisis in metal

This is one crazy collision.

A Japan-based custom shop toyed with the idea of mixing vehicles and came up with the Ferrari Hayabusa Trike, a three-wheeler mish-mash of a Suzuki GSX1300R and a Ferrari Formula 1.

Painted in the same shade of radiant red which has made Ferraris iconic and is using a converted frame, the trike was Trike Japan’s entry in the 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon, which took place January 9 to January 11.

Trike Japan is a company known for designing and manufacturing trike conversions for some of the most popular motorcycles in Japan.

Despite aiming to be revolutionary, the concoctive effort has received unimpressive reviews. A motorcycle blogger tagged the item “bafflingly weird,” while Jalopnik.com, an auto website, addressed its makers with an amusing question: “What were these guys smoking?”

Similarly, a previous attempt months ago by an Israeli design student, Amir Glinik, to conceptualize a Ferrari motorcycle was not welcomed warmly. Reports also said that when a certain private owner tried to turn his limo into a Ferrari, the Italian sports car company “was not so pleased.”

Save for it retaining the stock Hayabusa 1300cc motor, little information is known about the Ferrari Hayabusa Trike. There were speculations, though, that it could feature HKS twinturbos that can power it up to 500PS.

At least it has some go to back it up,” wrote Jalopnik’s The Auto Insider in his review of the Ferrari Hayabusa Trike, noting that the trike is but an “abomination.”

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