There's a scene in the movie Torque where the male lead unveils the MTT Turbine Superbike, hops onto it, breaks through a pane of glass, revs the absolute balls off it, and then launches the bike down the road as if he were in an F-14 Tomcat launching off a carrier. It's a very silly scene, but one that brings me a smile whenever I think of it.
At the time of the movie's release, which I saw in theaters, I didn't know the MTT was actually a real motorcycle. I didn't know that it used a Rolls-Royce turbine engine designed for a helicopter. Nor that I could pay real money to the company and have one in my garage. I just thought it was an interesting movie prop ala a Tron lightcycle. Yet, the MTT was real. You could touch it. You could rev the balls off it and launch like you were shot off a carrier deck.
Well, maybe not the last part. That might've been movie magic.
