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01-07-2003, 11:00 AM
Automakers raring to go in Detroit
by Associated Press Jan 7, 2003
By David Runk
DETROIT (AP) -- DaimlerChrysler AG's beast of a concept vehicle looks like a motorcycle, sounds like a muscle car and packs a 500-horsepower, V-10 engine that would give it a top speed above 300 miles an hour (about 482 kilometres per hour).
Nobody has tried to make the four-wheel, single-passenger Dodge Tomahawk go that fast yet. But Chrysler Group's president chief executive Dieter Zetsche says the company might bring the gleaming engine on wheels into production one day for a limited run, if there's enough interest.
"It's about pure performance, in-the-face excitement and not being scared of any limits," Zetsche said after helping introduce the Tomahawk at the North American International Auto Show. "And in a sense it's really a symbol for our company, for the culture in our company.
"We are daring, outrageous. We go for the new boundaries. That's what this beast really symbolizes."
For the complete article:
http://www.autonet.ca/autoshows/Stories.cfm?storyID=7414
by Associated Press Jan 7, 2003
By David Runk
DETROIT (AP) -- DaimlerChrysler AG's beast of a concept vehicle looks like a motorcycle, sounds like a muscle car and packs a 500-horsepower, V-10 engine that would give it a top speed above 300 miles an hour (about 482 kilometres per hour).
Nobody has tried to make the four-wheel, single-passenger Dodge Tomahawk go that fast yet. But Chrysler Group's president chief executive Dieter Zetsche says the company might bring the gleaming engine on wheels into production one day for a limited run, if there's enough interest.
"It's about pure performance, in-the-face excitement and not being scared of any limits," Zetsche said after helping introduce the Tomahawk at the North American International Auto Show. "And in a sense it's really a symbol for our company, for the culture in our company.
"We are daring, outrageous. We go for the new boundaries. That's what this beast really symbolizes."
For the complete article:
http://www.autonet.ca/autoshows/Stories.cfm?storyID=7414