Chrysler to offer $555,000 Tomahawk



Reuters / September 30, 2003


DETROIT (Reuters) -- For the "idling" rich, the Chrysler group said Tuesday that it had put a $555,000 price on collector editions of an outlandish four-wheel motorcycle.

As many as 10 of the chrome-draped Dodge Tomahawks, with 500-hp V-10 engines and theoretical top speeds of 300 mph, will be built on demand for customers willing to put deposits on them, Chrysler spokesman David Elshoff told Reuters.

One of the 1,500-pound Tomahawks already is being built for sale through the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog, said Elshoff, who added that all would be exact copies of the Art Deco-inspired Tomahawk concept that grabbed the spotlight at the Detroit auto show in January.

The problem, apart from the hog wild cost, is that the Tomahawks won't be fully drivable, and are not intended for use on public roads or highways.

"You couldn't license it for the street," Elshoff said, referring to various U.S. safety and regulatory problems.

"We would consider them more rolling sculptures, or loud sculptures, than we would motor vehicles," he said of the V-10's ear-splitting roar.

Elshoff said a handful of people already had expressed interest in snapping up one of the 10 Tomahawks.

The target consumer is "someone with disposable millions," he said.

 

I sure hope so....Someone could really kill themselves if they don't take it easy on that thing. That's akin to the JATO pod on the car!

 

 

Someone want to explain why something as simple as a Viper V10 stuffed between the UGLY frame rails of a motorcycle would cost half a mill?

See the "running Chrysler into the ground" thread. I suppose this is how Chrysler makes its "big comeback", eh?

 

Looks to me like PVO just sold $5.5M worth of bikes. They would need to sell 275 SRT-4s to make that much money.


I think that bike is cool as hell, I'd love to have one just for bragging rights.

 

I'd just as soon spend around $40,000 for a Boss Hoss with the GM 502 in the frame and call it a day. Oh and I can actually tag it for the road too.

The Tomahawk is neither original or practical. Then again I guess if I had the kind of "disposable millions" these guys are talking about then why the hell not, right?

 

edit: link = http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=3534940

Z28Wilson, I agree it is not the most practical or best bang for the buck, but it sould turn a few heads and impress your friends

 

so, who's gonna have one first? Jay Leno or the Terminator?

 

That is not a motorcycle.

 

Yikes! If I'm going to pay $500k for a vehicle, I want to be able to drive it everywhere! Man, the El Camino could be cool as crap for 1/20 that much!

 

I'd rather have a big *** boat.

 

Holy Sh*t....I can't believe their actually going to make 10 of those things. By the way they were talking at NAIAS, I thought there was just going to be the one stored away in some Chrysler Museum or something....

 

That seems like a godawful lot of money to spend on something that's not streetable.

I wonder what the folks at our neighborhood West Coast Choppers here in Long Beach would charge if someone came by and dropped off a Viper drivetrain and wanted a bike built.

They make motorcycles with helicopter jet engines that Jay Leno and a few other people out her with money are riding around here in (seen 2 on the streets myself). If these are streetable, why can't the Tomahawk be?

 

Chrysler has bigger fish it needs to fry. Prioritize.

 

'bout damn time someone starts marketing products to me

Looks like some of you folks are, uh, overthinking this product just a bit.