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The Paris Motor Show isn't all about luxury and supercars, and Eric discovered this example of the oddities on display alongside the more glamorous hardware.

Ligier Automobiles, a French company with an extensive competition history that includes its eponymous Formula 1 team, is displaying what may be the ultimate in "entry-level" vehicles - the Be Two quadricycle.

The space-frame Be Two is powered, if that's the word, by a 505 cc two-cylinder diesel engine, putting out a ground-pounding 4KW (about 5.5 hp) through a continuously-variable transmission. No performance figures are given, but more information about the Be Two, and its big brother, the Be Up, are available at the company's website.

More pictures after the jump!

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Volkswagen's recent foray into motorcycle-inspired cars with its GX-3 concept had us prowling the web for other hybrid creations, and we discovered this all-asphalt monster quad, the creation of French car and bike tuner Ludovic Lazareth. The Lazereth "Quadrazuma" is powered by a Yamaha GTS 1000 4-cylinder engine, producing 120 hp at 12,000 rpm. Considering its curb weight of 837 pounds, performance should be, well, inspiring.

The Yamaha frame is augmented with a tubular steel structure, sporting steering gear from a Renault Twingo and including two 20-liter side-mounted gas tanks. 17-inch wheels carry 205/40 front tires and 225/35s in the rear.

As ex-F1 driver and TV commentator David Hobbs is fond of saying, it would take a driver "with rather large attachments" to explore the performance envelope of this beast. Videos of the Quadrazuma can be found at the Lazareth website - in the meantime we have more pictures after the jump.

[Source: Lazareth via Marbellaguide.com]

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Quadrazuma all-asphalt monster quad originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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