Bedford Driving Lessons

An artist has constructed a model of a £130,000 Porsche GT3 RS – using plastic tubing and gold-painted aluminium foil. Hannes Langeder, 45, spent six months and 1,000 hours constructing the life-sized pedal-powered eco-friendly car, which cost €13,000 (£11,000) to build. Despite resembling a real Porsche GT3 RS, it weighs just 99.6 kilograms and is a fine art project currently on show in the Lentos Museum of Art in Linz, Austria. Special features include a rear wing and massive air inlets on the front spoiler to help with aero dynamics and ‘save the driver from sweating too much’. The car’s base is made of steel-frame but the rest of the vehicle is made of plastic tubes, aluminium foil and rolls and rolls of tape. Unlike its mechanical counterpart which costs £129,950 and does 0-60 in 3.7 seconds, the model does not have a twin-turbo or produce 450bhp from a 3.6-litre air-cooled flat-six engine. It is entirely man-powered – thanks to a bicycle fitted underneath the hood and can reach a top speed of 10mph – when pedalled hard. More