Discovery

Sedans/Saloons

So the myriad differences between a car and motorcycle make them incomparable, right? Yes, but Road & Track doesit anyway, pitting rally monster against rally monster in a brutal off-road showdown (for those unfamiliar withmotorcycle rallying, the KTM bike is a Paris-Dakar quality machine). They even brought professionals in for thepiloting duties. The results are fairly expected: the KTM, being smaller and lighter with a better power-to weightratio, won a lot of the individual head-to-head events like acceleration and slalom. But the Evo was the faster overthe dirt track, due to its sheer driftability. So no one really wins, per se, but both vehicles prove to be thrillingto operate in their natural habitat.

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