Volkswagen XL Sport

Have you always craved the raw acceleration of a motorcycle, but preferred the safety of a car? Here’s some good news for you. Volkswagen has created the XL Sport: a motorcycle wrapped in a car’s body. They’ve retained the XL1’s super light body (weighing 890 kg), ditched the super-boring, twin cylinder diesel motor that produced few horsepowers and did a gazillion kilometres to a litre.

What’s been slipped into the engine bay is the Ducati Panigale 1199 Superleggera’s high revving twin cylinder motor. Now called the VW XL Sport, the engine has been tweaked a bit, but the twins still make 197bhp, and rev all the way to 11,000rpm. All that power is channelled to the rear wheel via VW’s 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.

Add all that power to the lightweight XL1, and the Revzilla slips to 100kph in 5.7 seconds. If that does not impress you, the 270kph top speed should. The XL1’s body has been stretched by 4cm in length and a whopping 18cm in width to handle those high speeds.

Sadly, the XL Sport is not intended for production, though it is a working prototype. We’re not very convinced about the XL Sport just being a show car. With working mechanicals and the overly positive public reaction, we just think VW might announce production plans for the XL Sport soon.