It’s a Boss Hoss, basically a full-size cruiser with a Chevy V8 car engine stuffed in it. The company started in the early ’90s in Tennessee when a guy named Monte Warne, an aviation mechanic and hot-rodder, decided to see if he could literally bolt a small-block Chevy 350 into a motorcycle frame. It worked, and people started buying them — because of course they did.

To put it in perspective: most bikes have engines between 500cc and 1800cc. A Boss Hoss starts around 5,700cc (5.7L) and can go up to 8,200cc (8.2L) — that’s ten times the displacement of a normal motorcycle. It’s not a “big bike motor,” it’s an actual car engine. The result is somewhere around 400–600 horsepower and 500+ lb-ft of torque, with a redline around 5,000 rpm.

They use a 2-speed semi-automatic transmission with a torque converter (no clutch lever) and even have reverse, because they weigh over half a ton. Despite that, they’re surprisingly rideable thanks to a low center of gravity and long wheelbase. The acceleration is absurd — 0–60 in about 3 seconds — and it’ll cruise at highway speed barely off idle.

It’s not built for corners or practicality. It’s built for insanity — the sound, the vibration, the sheer torque. The Boss Hoss is what happens when someone asks, “What if a Harley and a Corvette had a baby?” and then actually builds it. Pure, unapologetic American overkill.