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Lexus builds an amazing, fully-functioning cardboard car

 

Lexus has been on quite a roll lately. In August the automaker released a YouTube video featuring a real-life hover board… You know like the one from the Back To The Future movie? This month, the company has decided to take its ingenuity and creativity to yet another level by creating the world’s first fully functioning cardboard car.

It took a team of just five people to put it together thanks to United Kingdom based company Scales & Models, which specializes in coming up with 3-D products and models using almost any concept you can imagine. The process of putting the cardboard car together included some digital design work, model creation, laser cutting and finally, the assembly process. At the end of the day it took 1,700 sheets of cardboard measuring 10 mm thick to make it happen.

To build a vehicle up to the standards of a luxury brand like Lexus is a tall order when you have the finest of all materials for both the interior and exterior of the car. Things become even more challenging of course when only using cardboard. The creators of this incredible and largely recyclable sedan spent extra time on the seats and the tires, working hard to ensure an absolutely incredible result.

Although you probably shouldn’t take this bad boy out of the garage on a rainy day and definitely not in a Canadian winter snowstorm for obvious reasons, don’t be fooled, the vehicle is totally drivable. It comes equipped with an electric motor that makes it so. Working doors and headlights ensure that you can sit in the vehicle safely and be able to see what’s in front of you. Absolutely incredible!

It seems as if Lexus is trying to do their best to find unique ways to market their brand and lately they’ve been able to do that. Now developing a cardboard car that can float like the hover board they made seems like a logical next step. Forget Back To The Future…the future is clearly now.

Can you believe the whole thing was inspired by Japanese origami? I mean most people that are into that stuff probably start by building something simple like a pocket-sized frog or boat don’t they? It’s safe to say Lexus just one upped origami lovers everywhere.