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Car-Bike Genetic Mashup Still Fearlessly Roams The Canadian Countryside
As much (or as little) as our conscience might drive us to applaud initiatives to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions - and thereby, our compatriots at AutoblogGreen tell us, prevent us all from going the way of the dinosaur - deep down, the real car nuts inside and among us love cars that tend to consume the most fossils. Naming a car after a dinosaur, however, is another matter.
When Ford's Special Vehicle Team wanted to distinguish its rip-roaring off-road pickup from the workaday F-150, they called it the Raptor. When Saleen designed a conceptual successor to the S7 supercar, it also chose the name Raptor. But back in the day when both those teams of Ford performance specialists were still hot-rodding the Fox-body Mustang, a small outfit in the Canadian province of Quebec was already building its own dino-named tribute, a three-wheeler called the T-Rex.
Having driven its newer, more Harley-like stablemate the V13R last summer, we returned to Montreal to take the T-Rex out for the day to answer the lingering question on our minds: Namely, is the T-Rex named after a dinosaur because it's been on the market for decades and should, by all accounts, be long since extinct? Or is it so named because it's an irreverent monster that will bite your head off and consume everything in its path?
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2012 Campagna T-Rex 14R [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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