Lexus has long been an innovator in luxury cars, but not so much in the field of origami. However, the Toyota-owned automaker has demonstrated its paper-making skills by creating a full-size cardboard Lexus, based on the IS model.
The car has been crafted out of pieces of precision-cut cardboard, then attached to a steel and aluminium frame, giving the structure support.
The car also features actual rolling wheels, working doors and real headlights.
But most impressive of all, it has a working motor.
Lexus built the machine with the assistance of Laser Cut Works and London-based model specialists Scales and Models.
The model makers began with a 3D model of the IS, then rendered the car in 10mm slices, creating profiles from which the actual cardboard pieces were cut. In all, 1,700 10mm cardboard slices were used in the project.
Ruben Marcos, the Scales and Models Company founder and director, said: “This was a very demanding job, with five people involved in the digital design, modelling, laser cutting and assembly. Just like Lexus, we were committed to producing the best possible quality.”
The cardboard Lexus may not be quite as enthralling as the firm’s Hoverboard, but it demonstrates Lexus’s continuing quest for innovation.
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