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 in a Slingshot and go. But it’s also quite capable of uncorking donuts, burnouts…
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Cigar Aficionado (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2023