From the front, the T-Rex looks like a neo-retro race car with a rounded snub nose from the rear, it looks, well, unique, with buggy lights, twin howitzer exhausts and jowly sidecases (twin 52-liter Givi topcases mounted vertically, which add $1,399 to the price). In case you’re wondering, a Lotus Elise has a 90.5-inch wheelbase, 72.8-inch width and 44-inch height. Dimensionally, the T-Rex has a 90-inch wheelbase, 78-inch width and 42-inch height. The front suspension is equally firm, with unequal opposed triangular arms (apparently all the rage in the performance car world…I drive an F150 pickup truck), adjustable shocks and a sway bar.
The front wheels are narrower (7 inches) and slightly smaller in diameter (16 inches), and are fitted with 205/45-ZR16 sport tires. Dual adjustable shocks on the swingarm seemed nearly hardtail stiff, like a race car. The open cockpit makes for a noisy experience wear ear plugs.Ī large chain transmits power to the 10-inch-wide, 17-inch-diameter rear wheel, which is fitted with a sporty 285/40-ZR17 tire. Rather than between your legs, the engine sits behind the driver/passenger, with two large ram-air hoses extending from the intake on top of the roll cage to the engine compartment. Citing Kawasaki figures, Campagna claims 200 horsepower, measured at the crank of course. It was powered by a Suzuki GSX-R1100 engine until 2000, when Campagna bolted in a Kawasaki ZX-12 engine, followed by Kawi’s ZZR1200 engine and finally the ZX-14 powerplant in our test machine. (Having just tested the Can-Am Spyder RT-S, I can’t help but wonder: What it is about the Québécois and two-in-the-front three-wheelers?) This sharp-toothed dino-car, which would be more appropriately named the Triceratops, has been in production since 1996. The T-Rex is built by Campagna, which is based in Montréal, Canada.
It’s just that the T in T-Rex must stand for Toy (or Trouble) because this ain’t no grocery getter. Don’t get me wrong, the T-Rex is an absolute scream to drive.
TREX RACING THROUGH TRAFFIC DRIVER
There isn’t a single microscopic iota of practicality in the T-Rex, which lacks doors, windows and a windshield, requires the driver and passenger to wear helmets and has about as much interior space as a Matchbox car. After they shared a few laughs and Odom contemplated possible violations of his NBA contract, they sensibly hopped into Dyrdek’s blinged-out SUV and drove to the soon-to-be-opened downtown Asian fusion restaurant where both are investors, leaving the T-Rex behind to sulk.Ī rich kid celebrity like Dyrdek is the ideal customer for Campagna’s T-Rex 14R, which is a high-powered, three-wheeled go-kart with a starting price of $49,995 (plus $1,250 for “transport”). Lakers’ Lamar Odom shoehorned part of his body into the passenger seat while the rest of him hung out like a giraffe riding shotgun in a Kharman Ghia. In a particularly clown car-like moment, L.A.
TREX RACING THROUGH TRAFFIC PRO
Dyrdek, a pro skateboarder with too much money and his own do-whatever-I-want TV show, roared into his dream warehouse-futuristic office, skate park and basketball court all under one roof-and did doughnuts on the slick concrete floor. The first time I saw a T-Rex was on the MTV show Ryan Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory.
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