World's fastest couch?
 

Australian man sets new land speed record

..An Australian man sped around a lap at Camden Airport this week and raced straight into the record books.

Glen Sutton hit a record 163 kilometres per hour — in a souped-up sofa.

His remarkable couch speed beat British Marek Turowsk's previous land-speed record of 148 km/h.

Watch the successful world-record attempt below:



The Australian couch, designed and built by Evolution Motorsport, was a leather two-seater, complete with coffee table holding a cup of coffee and bowl of fruit. A Suzuki GSX motorcycle engine powered the moving furniture.

"It's the oddest vehicle we've ever built," project leader Paul McKinnon said of the aerodynamically challenged couch.

"With race cars, you can use the aerodynamic body kit . . . but with the couch, it was a matter of just doing what we could. We tried to break the airflow with the coffee table."

The Herald Sun reports the stunt was part of a promotion series called "Add a Motor to It."

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Cool, but sketchy. I was waiting on the table to separate for the ultimate face plant :/

Meh

underground racing couch does 358km/h with the twin turbo setup.

lol whats next, racing bed....

pffft shoulda made all the controls work through the tv remote and had a bowl of chips in the other hand

:seriously:

who in their right mind would wanna sit on a couch (meant for relaxing) and move at speeds of over 300km/h?! are these people running out of ideas for car designs so instead they make furniture into race cars? what is this donkey kong racing?

next up 200km/h fridge..

^ should do a top speed shoot out with my 200km/h freeezer :troll:

bathtub

^use a big ol cast iron bitch for traction :P

Although not as fast, I thought this was weird enough

That's not a couch. It's an upholstered go-kart.

Go-karts are just un-upholstered armchairs. :troll:

haha imagine a toilet instead.

lmao people have nothing better to do :/ guess it makes for good entertainment though...