In 2000 Marine Turbine Technologies Inc. introduced the Turbine Superbike, better known as the Y2K Turbine bike. The bike uses a Rolls Royce turboshaft engine commonly used in helicoptors. This engine developes 320hp making it the "most powerful production motorcyclein the world" according to the Guinness Book of World Records. With that kind of power the Y2K can reach speeds of 227mph. Of coarse this much bike isn't going to come cheap, the Y2K costs nearly $200,000. The Rolls Royce Allison 250 comes straight out of a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter. MTT gets the engines used (once an engine surpasses a running limit the must be rebuilt). Normally running on kerocene, the turbine engine has been converted to diesel.
For 2008 MTT is offering their "streetfighter" model. It isn't a streetfighter in the sense of a naked bike like a Triumph Speed Triple or Ducati Monster, but it does have 420hp!
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