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Ford's soy foam seat cushions are so not enough. Reliable Plant magazine reports that students at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, have built a car using botanical materials for almost everything save the frame and engine. The open-wheel single-passenger car features a body made from hemp, tires that started life on a potato farm and brake pads that once grew on a cashew tree. Suitably-named project manager Ben Wood claims he can get the car up to 150 mph "given a long straight and a tailwind." Wood hopes to design a race car that is "95 percent biodegradable or recyclable." If these products carry over into passenger car design, will the manufacturers offer a 100K mile warranty against termite damage?
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A car that decomposes? It’s like some politically correct version of planned obsolescence.
How bouts a car made from Christmas Fruit Cake. Talk about durability…..
Can’t wait to hear about all the little children having nut allergy attacks after one of these passes by a kindergarten and hits the cashew brakes.