What Exactly is the Exeet MR Hyperquad?
The Exeet MR Hyperquad is a blend of BMW’s M 1000R’s insane performance paired to a quad chassis, giving birth to a machine that’s not only ostentatious in style but also carries substance.
Engineers at Exeet transformed the extremely potent BMW M 1000R into a 210hp, four-wheeled rocket, Which according to the company’s claim, handles like a Formula 2 machine.
What sort of underpinning does the MR Hyperquad utilise?
On the engine front, MR Hyperquad reuses BMW’s outrageous 999cc liquid-cooled inline-four, which produces 210 hp of power and approximately 116 Nm of torque, as stated by the company.
The MR Hyperquad incorporates the M 1000Rs chassis and frame, but with added quad flavour courtesy of engineers at Exeet. featuring a fabricated tubular steel frame with a wide track, double-wishbone front/rear Öhlins setup. Bespoke brakes with large ventilated discs.
According to the company’s Managing Director, Thorsten Arenz, the changes made through custom fabrication and enhancement make the Quad handle like a Formula 2 car.
“It feels like a Formula 2 car with a motorcycle handlebar, positively crazy… On the road it’s extremely precise: sharp turn-in, lots of feedback, brutal but controllable braking. On track it becomes a real edge-of-your-helmet experience, very late braking points, high corner speeds, and superbike-level acceleration out of the turn, but with much more stability.”
How does BMW’s electronics adapt to the quad setup?
While Exeet naturally made some very notable changes to the chassis, it retained the majority of the BMW’s electronics suite, which includes riding modes, traction control, wheelie control, ABS, and TFT display, which is recalibrated to adapt to the quad’s longer wheelbase, weight distribution, and grip profile.
What is the History and Legacy of Exeet Engineering?
Founded by Sebastian Jornitz (a veteran quad racer) in Euskirchen, Germany, SJ-Racing evolved from his quad racing roots and SJ-Racing’s 2007 pushrod innovations into a pioneer of street-legal hyperquads.
BMW MR Hyperquad isn’t the company’s first rodeo – since its inception, it has dabbled with other renowned machines from the world of superbikes and turned them into exceptional quad machines. The list includes the 2014 Blackbull prototype on a Kawasaki Z1000, the 2020 supercharged Blackbull H2 with 200hp, and the 2021 BMW partnership spawning the Exeet RR based on the BMW S 1000RR.
