SUBARU ENGINED STREET BIKE PROJECT

This little beastie is a project dreamed up by RogueMoto, a US based design/fabrication outfit based in the US.

We're not sure if the KickBoxer is going to be built or not, or even if it would work if it was, but we love the concept because a) it's completely mad, and b) it features a 265bhp turbocharged Subaru Boxer engine plundered from the Scooby WRX.

According to the designer Ian McElroy, the engine is mated to a gearbox from a Mitsi Evo, and front and rear hubs from a nameless 1980s GM-mobile. The rear end runs a modified Datsun 280Z stub axle, and the whole concoction sits within a 56ins wheelbase, hardly more than a 161hp Yamaha R1.

But surely a bike with a WRC rallying heritage like this deserves a 2x2 drive system? Back to the drawing board, Ian...