Video: This 500-hp turbo go kart defines true fear
AdvertisementIf you wanted to kill yourself—and I mean really, really kill yourself—there might not be a better way to go about it than to strap a hopped-up, 500-horsepower, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder into a kart and go for glory.
It’s like those people who tame a cougar, live with it for four years, and then feign shock when the cat realizes that human spleen tastes better than kibble. The tragedy’s out there somewhere, waiting to happen.
Until then, the dude behind the wheel of this death machine looks perfectly content to send tires to the smoky beyond while sliding around a track somewhere. But the thing is, if you have something like this in the garage, you’re going to wake up at 3:30 in the morning, and you’ll already be tearing through the neighborhood with nothing but your boxers and a wide grin between you and the imminent road splatter.
Like that big cougar, there will come a day when this kart wakes up and realizes that it, too, wants to dine on its master’s flesh. Check it out:
Source: roadandtrack.com
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