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Watch This Suzuki Hayabusa-Powered SEAT 600 Hill Climb Monster In Action

By Sanjoy Alexander

MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 09: A man drives a Seat 600 at the Jarama Circuit on June 9, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The Jarama Vintage Festival seeks to revive the 1960s, 70s and 80s attracting classic cars and motorbikes against a background of public orientated activities and shows. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 09: A man drives a Seat 600 at the Jarama Circuit on June 9, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The Jarama Vintage Festival seeks to revive the 1960s, 70s and 80s attracting classic cars and motorbikes against a background of public orientated activities and shows. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images) /
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Spain’s JTR Racing has created a Tasmanian Devil with a shot of nitrous injected into its butt cheeks with this Suzuki Hayabusa-SEAT 600 love child called the JTR Racing S600.

The Suzuki Hayabusa is beyond doubt one of the greatest and fastest production motorcycles ever made. Popularly known as the Busa and with a lesser-known actual name of GSX1300R, this Japanese bike may look like a pregnant water buffalo. But it can do 194 mph and that number made it sit on the throne of the fastest production motorcycle in the world for many years.

The 1,299cc inline-4-cylinder engine powering the Suzuki Hayabusa makes 197 hp of power and 138.7 Nm of torque in its standard, untouched form. All the firepower needed to propel the Japanese superbike to neck-breaking speeds. So what’s going to happen if you plunk that powerplant into a SEAT 600?

Ah… the SEAT 600. The Spanish incarnation of the popular and adorable Fiat 500. Built under license from Fiat, the tiny hatchback originally comes with a 633cc engine that delivered an equally miniscule 19 hp of power during its production run from 1957 to 1973. It sold a lot of copies though as Spain loved this almost-huggable two-door hatchback.

Put those two together and you get this unbelievably-quick and brutally-fast little machine called JTR Racing S600. JTR Racing played the role of Dr. Frankenstein here as they somehow managed to build a hill climb monster with a wide body treatment that’ll raise eyebrows, an engine taken from a really fast motorbike and the body of a classic hatchback.

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We did some more googling to find out more about this car and apparently it has been around for quite some time. YouTube videos which were uploaded a couple of years ago prove that this creature had been living its eventful life on another part of the world while somehow managing to evade attention from the rest of us.

A 2014 report on Motor.es states that the car weighs around 570 kg which makes the 205 hp of power (they must’ve tweaked the Suzuki Hayabusa engine) launch the S600 from 0 to 62 mph in 4 seconds. The shop will build the car to order and is also open to the idea of modifying it to meet the specific racing needs of the customer.

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Watch the video of one of these little monsters doing what it was built to do. Climb hills and that too at insanely-high speeds.

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