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 ...

But one of the key hurdles when bringing origami or kirigami to engineering is that these techniques often make things rather ...

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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.

Be careful, it isn’t exactly street legal. Driving down the street, a new paper car–hand-glued from 1,700 pieces of cardboard–looks more like a piece of animation than a real-life object. Using the ...