World's 1st Wooden Car


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You just read the headline right. No double check there, even we have got it all right. The world’s first wooden functional sports car has been unveiled.

The car was brain wreakingly designed and created by a design company in the United States of America named Joe Harmon Design. This car can, hold your breath guys, can be out sight with a top speed of 240 mph.

This wooden car was designed with ingredients such as maple, plywood and MDF, measures 4.6 meter-long and weighs 1,134 kg. Read the blog further for more. This wooden car which has a six-speed gearbox gets its raw thrust and power from a 4.6 L mammoth V8 engine plunked under its hood.

The proprietor of Joe Harmon Design and the brain behind this wooden sports car , 27-year old Joe Harmon said, “Wood is a truly amazing material to work with. It has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than aluminium or steel, and it possesses a versatility that makes many different types of construction techniques possible.”

If you wish to own the world’s first wooden sport car, it is available on the markets later this year but the design company still not decided its price.

Source: Carazoo.com

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Just Wow!
But is the wooden body components are good enough to withstand the the heat generated by 4.6 L mammoth V8 engine?? and how safe is the car on high collisions??

Hope this car have positive answers for these questions,then it will be a marvel of modern automobile engineering and designing.
 
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I doubt this thing will go under production !

There are car's built with silver sheets,etc (those are for the rich)

But i don't get the point of coming out with wooden car's (whom are these for ?)
 
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Wooden car and that too sports car. hard to beleive. But we never know, so much brains are available in world who thinks differently.
 
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Innovations , looks cool.

eager to see the car in real.

termites must not be a problem , as trucks here ply with wooden carriage , custom built.
So a simple truck follows it here means ,in a super car that must not be a problem
 
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Cool car.

Last week i saw a wooden car made in our Country in Tamilnadu. It had 800's engine and was displayed at some expo in Kerala and it costs 2.7 lacs and has a top speed of 70 kph.
 

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