Spira foam car enters Automotive X Prize, our hearts
There’s something to be said about a car that gets 100 miles per gallon and floats. We’re still trying to figure out what exactly that phrase is, but we’re certain something has to be exclaimed. Designer Lon Ballard has concocted the, um, object you see above, which is actually an automobile modeled after Crocs and built almost entirely from foam. In fact, 90 percent of the Spira’s makeup is foam, which doesn’t exactly give us loads of confidence about its ability to withstand major (or minor, really) impacts on the American freeway…
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