If you're sick of getting shredded by your more talented and/or slimmer friends at the local go-kart track, Canadian engineering firm Daymak has just the thing for you – the C5 Blast Ultimate.
Dubbed "the fastest go-kart on the planet" and priced at a cool $US60,000 – roughly $80,000 in Oz – the Daymak C5 Blast Ultimate go-kart looks like something Marty McFly from Back to the Future would've driven.
With its quad fan buttresses behind the driver working in tandem with a liquid cooling system, the 2.4kWh Panasonic Lithium-ion battery pack provides enough juice to a pair of 48 volt 10kW brushless DC motors to propel the kart from 0-100km/h in just 1.6 seconds.
In imperial terms, that's 0-60mph in a claimed 1.5 seconds – and it's possible thanks to what the company says are "extremely light" EDF or electric ducted fan motors.
Those sorts of speeds would generate face-contorting g-forces and make the kart faster to 100km/h than a Bugatti Chiron, a vehicle that costs about $3.3 million.
Based on the Youtube video of the prototype models, complete with fake sound effects, the kart doesn't look insanely quick, and probably wouldn't turn heads like a Bugatti.
The Toronto company says the technology is "just at the early stage" and there is a less extreme version available for around $US10,000 that'll breach 100km/h in 4.0 seconds. But why would you want that one?
Daymak says the C5 Blast Ultimate go-kart is part of a large strategy to offer even wilder vehicles "that will take us to a completely different dimension".
Finally, a flying car!