While cardboard cars may not be the future of motoring, the designers enjoyed being involved in a project that had a link with the past. "What makes it a sculptural piece rather than an engineering ...

Imagine a future world starved of resources where carmakers have to resort to replacing the metal in your car's roof and hood with cardboard. LA PLAINE ST DENIS, France, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Imagine a ...

Japanese carmaker Lexus has exhibited a life-sized replica of its IS sedan, created from 1,700 laser-cut cardboard sheets. The “origami car” was built in London by a five-strong team of professional ...

Lexus made an exact driveable replica of its model IS using 1,700 sheets of cardboard. The car was built entirely by hand using laser cutting technology and water-based glue. Lexus gave London-based ...

We've seen some unusual uses of cardboard before, including for a skateboard deck and for furniture. Lexus has perhaps trumped everything else though, by building a full-size, drivable cardboard car.

Max Siedentopf has to work quickly and under the cover of nightfall. His medium for the task at hand is cardboard, and his subjects lie motionless under the dark sky. He is the cardboard car pimper. A ...

Triway Junior High School eighth-grade science students packed their precious cargo carefully for a steep ride down a wooden ramp ending in a cement block. The members of Ann McNeil's and Emily ...

Aston University's entry into this year's Shell Eco-Marathon may look a little low-tech, but that didn't stop the hydrogen-fueled, flat-pack cardboard and plywood car from scooping the Eco-Design ...

Most of us think of the future of eco-friendly cars in miles per gallon (or miles per kilowatt-hour). But a design team from Britain’s Aston University looked at the carbon consequences of the ...

These two are putting the “car” in cardboard. A mother and her daughter in Belgium were forced to get creative after learning their local McDonald’s was only available for drive-thru customers — as ...

Most of us take cardboard for granted. Once we open a corrugated cardboard box, we simply toss it into the garbage, not caring where it might end up. That practice borders on blasphemy for one ...