$12,000 Suzuki Hayabusa outperforms $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron

In real world road conditions, every rider knows that motorcycles are faster than cars. It’s not just a power to weight thing either, we’re able to exploit our size advantage to: a) move to the outside of corners for better vision, allowing more speed with more safety and b) move through traffic safely and efficiently in a way no car ever could. Car drivers just don’t get it, trotting out on-paper performance numbers for impossibly expensive cars that are occasionally better than those of their two-wheeled counterparts. But now we have them definitively beaten. The 2008 Suzuki Hayabusa is quicker than the fastest car in the world.
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