{"id":18693,"date":"2009-08-15T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T22:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18693"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:16:25","slug":"automobile-misc-atv-sports-car-283000-quad-bike-powered-by-500-hp-turbocharged-bmw-v12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18693","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc ATV Sports Car &#8211; $283,000 Quad Bike Powered By 500 HP Turbocharged BMW V12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And you thought the STI-ATV was crazy. Cramming a BMW V12 and a turbocharger into a quad bike wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough for French bike builder Ludovic Lazareth, he needed more power, so he added ethanol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Better known as a bio-fuel favored by Iowan farmers; Ethanol, or E85 in this case, has a higher octane rating (typically 100-105) than traditional pump gas, which allows higher compression ratios and more power. The engine actually makes only 350 HP in its current form, with the 150 necessary to take that figure up to 500 HP coming soon in the form of a turbocharger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no fancy traction or stability control keeping all that power in check, so &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hungtext.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/14\/283000-quad-bike-powered-by-500-hp-turbocharged-bmw-v12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0 &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought the STI-ATV was crazy. Cramming a BMW V12 and a turbocharger into a quad bike wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough for French bike builder Ludovic Lazareth, he needed more power, so he added ethanol. Better known as a bio-fuel favored by Iowan farmers; Ethanol, or E85 in this case, has a higher octane rating (typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46474,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions\/46474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}