smart fortwo engagee Dakar 2013

Really strange, seeing the smart fortwo part in the Dakar 2013, with the departure will be given on January 5! For the occasion, the participants will cross the desert regions of Peru, Argentina and Chile.

This is the fifth time that the Dakar is held in South America.

The presence of a smart fortwo in Dakar was possible thanks to the participation of Spanish manufacturing small electric cars for children of Feber.

The car will be made unrecognizable by the Spanish pilotees JL Alvarez, a great specialist of this type of competition.

This demarche from smart and wants to demonstrate that Feber can register has a major competition with a small budget.

The smart fortwo rally

The underside of the smart for the Dakar 2013 include a borrowed ATV Polaris Ranger RZR XP 900 tubular structure.

With its fiberglass body, the car weighs only 620 pounds.

Its main features:

ground clearance of 340 mm;

tank of 120 liters;

deflections of 340 mm at the front;

deflections of 355 mm at the rear;

wheels 14 ";

900cc twin-cylinder engine has injection;

tubular cage safety;

a bucket harness.

His system has four-wheel drive is associated with a differential rear Versatrac. To this, add four-wheel independent travel wide and four ventilated disc brakes.