The tales of those who have driven any Campagna Motors T-REX three-wheelers vary from motorists recounting bad memories of snap-oversteer and hopeless impracticality, to others describing it as visceral yet controllable, as well as a lot of other ones who reach a conclusion somewhere in the middle.
Aside from the actual experience of driving one flat out, the T-REX is also an adequate cruiser, as its bike-derived suspension has decent travel and it can successfully absorb even larger bumps.
However, its old Kawasaki engine had next-to-no torque at low rpms, so it often got a bit nosy. Now there’s a new version, with a six-cylinder BMW motorbike engine, which sounds much better and provides a lot more usable torque – we know this because Jay Leno said so after he recently drove the scary Canadian trike.
His latest video also reveals that the T-REX has moved on considerably, since the first ones cropped up in the early 1990s. Back then, they had yet to be approved for U.S. road use, whereas now you can drive it in California, with no helmet on, legally and (try to) listen to music from your MP3 player. Feel free to contribute any “bugs in the teeth” jokes below.
By Andrei Nedelea
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