For all the careful engineering and meticulous design that goes into production vehicles, no one can be quite sure what exactly will happen when a prototype car finally hits the moment of truth.
But what would happen if the test car was a Porsche made of Lego?
That's just what one group of car nerds was keen to find out. A team from German computer magazine c't have built a model-size Porsche out of Lego and crashed it at a vehicle testing facility run by Germany’s largest automobile club, the ADAC.
The 2,704-piece mini-Porsche, complete with a smiling 3D-printed crash-test dummy, was sent speeding into a barrier at 46kph, with a 1,000 frame per second camera capturing the whole thing.
As the slow-mo video shows, the car explodes into a mesmerising cloud of Lego pieces upon impact, and yet sections of the Porsche remain intact.
Perhaps surprisingly, only a tiny number of the Lego pieces themselves suffered any damage, with the wheel suspensions pieces – among the first to hit the wall – some of the only ones bent out of shape.
The 2,704-piece mini-Porsche, complete with 3D-printed miniature crash-test dummy, was sent hurtling into a barrier at 46kph. — All images from dpa
