Everything you need to know about the Palatov Motorsport DP4: It weighs 800 pounds, it uses a 1.4-liter Suzuki Hayabusa engine it is obscenely, insanely quick.
The guys at Palatov took their super shifter kart to Oregon Raceway Park for its first-ever track day and, as you can see in the video, proceeded to smoke everything on the tarmac. That’s easy to do in a car that’s smaller than a Lotus Elise, weighs less than a Honda Goldwing and, when fitted with a Hayabusa engine, has a better power-to-weight ratio than the Ariel Atom.
This particular car uses a Hayabusa engine. Acccording to Jalopnik, one potential buyer has said of the DP4, “Going from the dp4 back to [a] Caterham CSR is like going from the Caterham to a stock Elise.”
Damn.
The DP4 is strictly a track-day machine that can run the SCCA D-Sports Racer league. Prices start at $25,910 (.pdf) for a bare-bones kit. Have Palatov build one using a Suzuki GSX-R1000 engine and you’re looking at $39,860. Go nuts with options (Ohlins suspension, AWD, ‘busa engine) and you’ll drop $50,610.
Not wild enough? Maybe you’ll like the DP1. It’s got a 500-horsepower Hartley V8 and weighs 850 pounds
Read More http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/palatov-motorsports-dp4/#ixzz0wixudFnv
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