TURBO. For a certain generation who grew up in a time before forced induction became a “green” thing, nothing screams “Eighties Excess” and “Performance” like a turbocharged… anything. You are probably familiar with the early turbocharged cars that used forced induction as a way to squeeze extra power out of emissions-strangled motors of the Reagan era. Less known is a short-lived generation of production turbo motorcycles from 1982-85. The first shot in the 1980s turbo wars came from Kawasaki, who attempted to revive an ailing model by boosting it beyond all reason. And they beat the other manufacturers to the punch by introducing their turbo fiend at the end of the Disco era.
