Dodge made a bizarre concept four-wheel motorcycle that blurred the lines between superbike and supercar

This is the Dodge Tomahawk, an unreal concept motorcycle powered by a Dodge Viper V10.

Believe it or not, this wasn’t just a concept or a prototype designed to showcase and turn heads at car shows.

Dodge actually put this into production.

But, alas, there was an inevitable catch.

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In 2004, Dodge briefly lost its mind, in a good way, and decided to slam a Dodge Viper V10 under the hood, so to speak, of a motorcycle.

The engine was an 8.3-liter V10, the same you’d find under the hood of most Dodge Vipers. And it was capable of producing 500HP.

They called it the Dodge Tomahawk, an apt name for a vehicle like this.

It was first unveiled at the North American International Auto Show – the car show everyone knows as Detroit Auto Show – as a one-off concept.

It looked tremendous, like it came out of a sci-fi movie with flying cars and robots.

Amazingly, a few months later, Dodge decided to put it into production. And it’s not the only unusual vehicle Dodge made – this car, produced for women, has all but been forgotten.

Only 10 Tomahawks were ever built, and the price tag was hefty. If you wanted one, you needed to fork out $555,000.

That’s around $950,000 in today’s money when adjusted for inflation.

Even so, Dodge apparently sold nine of them and kept one so they could put it in a museum.

There are a couple of things worth pointing out, though.

First, the vehicle was not street legal.

But second, and this is a little disconcerting, is that Dodge said the vehicle was intended for display only and not fully operational.

When you’ve got 10 cylinders and 500HP at your disposal, the words ‘not fully operational’ aren’t what you want to hear.

Still, looks pretty cool, right?