Polaris Slingshot
Look! Out on the road! It’s a car. It’s a motorcycle. It’s a street-legal version of the Batmobile. The Polaris Slingshot may be something of a vehicular hermaphrodite, difficult to define, but it delivers on its promise: lots of fun and amazed stares.
The Slingshot is an open cockpit roadster with three wheels, which technically classifies it as a motorcycle, except you don’t need a special license to get behind the wheel. It drives like a standard car, but sometimes handles more like a race car or off-road vehicle. We test drove it in the hills of Austin and, with its antiroll technology it hugged the sharp curves, feeling sturdy all the while. Any driver can hop …
