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Chocolate-Powered 150 MPH Race Car Revealed
Fox News ^ | May 5, 2009

Posted on 05/05/2009 9:57:54 PM PDT by Schnucki

Talk about hot chocolate.

A team of British engineers have designed a car that not only runs on a fuel derived from the tasty treat, but is largely constructed from parts derived from vegetables.

The steering wheel of the open-cockpit car is constructed from carrot fibers, the foam in the seats from soybeans, and the rear view mirrors and body panels produced from the starch of potatoes. Even the brakes are based on cashew nut shells.

The World First Racing team from Warwick University says the car is 95 percent biodegradable and mostly conforms to the regulations of the international Formula 3 racing series. It has a BMW turbodiesel engine that is capable of propelling it to speeds approaching 150 mph and can run on any type biodiesel, but for the purposes of the $200,000 project the designers chose chocolate as the basis of the renewable fuel.

Unfortunately, you won't be seeing it on track anytime soon. Current Formula 3 regulations do not allow the use of biodiesel in competition, even though diesel is widely used in Europe and has become a popular motorsport fuel in recent years. The last three runnings of the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans were won by a turbodiesel Audi.

Until the rules change, maybe the engineers can cheer up by eating some of the leftovers.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chocolate

1 posted on 05/05/2009 9:57:54 PM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki

The one thing scientists downplayed was that the car itself would not last more than one race before disintegrating.


2 posted on 05/05/2009 9:59:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

True.


3 posted on 05/05/2009 10:01:28 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Schnucki

Eat the ears first. They taste bestest.


4 posted on 05/05/2009 10:07:07 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Schnucki

And if you’re lost in the wilderness with no fuel, you can just much on the car!


5 posted on 05/05/2009 10:10:29 PM PDT by The Future 2012 (Would the good people like a reply?)
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Maybe they can slam it into a peanut butter wall.


6 posted on 05/05/2009 10:19:14 PM PDT by freeplancer
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To: freeplancer
Then the marshmallow air bags would deploy...this thread is making me hungry.
7 posted on 05/05/2009 10:28:33 PM PDT by Semper Mark (We're being held hostage in the wet dream of a 60's radical.)
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To: Schnucki

If you must burn food, burn corn not chocolate!!!


8 posted on 05/05/2009 10:36:31 PM PDT by DannyTN ( Impeach and Deport)
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To: Schnucki

If you must burn food, burn corn not chocolate!!!


9 posted on 05/05/2009 10:36:32 PM PDT by DannyTN ( Impeach and Deport)
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To: Schnucki

At 150 max speed it isn’t even close to being competative.

Who would drive a slug built by eco freeks anyway?


10 posted on 05/05/2009 10:45:44 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Schnucki

Ray Nagin’s car of choice.


11 posted on 05/05/2009 10:54:47 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...)
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To: Schnucki

Mmmm.... Chocolate.

One of my dark vices.


12 posted on 05/05/2009 10:58:59 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: The Future 2012
This thread is lots of fun. I can see walking out to the car, parked in the driveway to find that the slugs had taken a slug out of the cars runnings.

I wonder if the resins made from these organic materials has any toxic chemicals in them? I know. Once the car has no use, grind it up and make slug bait!

13 posted on 05/06/2009 12:53:12 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: Schnucki

What a waste of chocolate.


14 posted on 05/06/2009 3:01:07 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: Schnucki

And for exhaust, it gives off whipped cream. There you have it, a desert-mobile.


15 posted on 05/06/2009 3:06:18 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Give me LIBERTY or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: Schnucki

“A team of British engineers have designed a car that not only runs on a fuel derived from the tasty treat, but is largely constructed from parts derived from vegetables.”

Why?


16 posted on 05/06/2009 4:42:36 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: freeplancer

I wonder what the NOS would be... 90% Dark?


17 posted on 05/06/2009 11:52:53 AM PDT by The Future 2012 (Would the good people like a reply?)
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