Race Car Made With Veggies And Powered By Chocolate

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 23, 2009 @06:54AM from the mad-lib-motors dept.

IS4110 writes "A new racing car made with potatoes and carrots and powered with chocolate waste has been developed by the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre of the University of Warwicks in the UK. The university's vehicle, called WorldFirst F3 project, has a steering wheel made of curran, a material derived from carrots, that is expected to replace glass fiber and carbon fiber. It also has a racing seat made of SoyFoam, a soybean oil-based, flexible foam material. Wing mirrors incorporate materials derived from potato starch, a bib made from flax fiber, and lubricants based on plant oils."

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The goal? by American+Terrorist · 2009-04-23 07:15 · Score: 1, Troll

TFA: The project's goal is to prove that is possible to make a competitive racing car using environmentally sustainable and renewable materials.

Competitive against what? Wind powered sail cars? They still haven't solved the basic problem that racing huge machines is wasteful no matter what you use to do it with. There is an opportunity cost to all those potatoes going uneaten.