These cars are so green they're covered in grass. Well, fake grass, anyhow. Some kind of Astroturf. We're not sure why these people are covering their cars in grass, but it is amusing. Our main questions is, How do they make the turf adhere to the car? It's not like automobiles are the greatest planters in the world. Some of the rides are easy to identify: VW Beetles (surprise, surpirse!), a Citroen 2CV, and a Honda Element. But what about the others? Here's an idea: How about the opposite of Winter Guessing Game for this one? How about Grass Car Guessing Game?
Take That, Prius! Here Are Some Extreme Green Cars
5:45 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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To make a grass car I'm guessing they cover the car with burlap, then slather on a mix of rye grass seeds and mud. Water regularly, and it'll sprout in a few days.
Like a big Chia Pet.
Step one: grow Catnip on Beetle
Step two: Drive into Lion Safari Country
Step Three: Watch Chaos ensue!
Lada Niva, Renault-version of the Citroen Bongo (Shit, is it Renault bongo?), Bug, Smart, Previa, 2CV, Jetta, Benz, Element, Civic, ?, 'nother jetta.
BTW, the Niva & Element are covered in Astroturf. Fakers.
The US Military should look into this-much better camoflage than just painting a truck green.
@clinto: 'cept there's not much grass where our troops spend time these days.
@clinto:
"Hey Vladmir, come look over there!"
"What Dimitry? What do you see?"
"Doesn't that strange moss-covered rock kind of look like a Sherman tank?"
"Dah, comrade, it kind of does!"
"I've never seen a rock that's so smooth and elongated before. Let me take a picture and show it to my babushka..."
(This, of course, assuming that we're still valiantly conquering the Russian bear with our jet-powered passenger trains and our sexually liberated capitalist lifestyle.)
Depending on the crop planted, this could bring an interesting new appeal to doing smoky burnouts...
Chia Car...! Chia Car...! Chia Car...!
Does the local drive-thru carwash have a 'gentle rinse only' setting?
a green car that gets less fuel mileage than its predecessor.....oh well, at least it looks cool.
If we got ahold of one of Lindsay Lohan's or Paris Hilton's or Britney's former cars, we could grow crab grass...
What kind of grass do they grown on cars in Jamaica
My first car was painted Spruce (at least that's what Chrysler called it) - does naming the colour after a tree make it a Green car?
You know, I was going to say something about the fact that green camo is for European battlefields and that our problems for the next 100 years are likely to come from the land of sand, but didn't want to take the thread in a political direction (or be accused of doing so).
So now that you guys have excused me from such, I will say that the US Military needs to find some kind of camo that will make their vehicles look like catboxes.
Unless that is real grass absorbing the CO2 and producing more oxygen, those cars are certainly not green. Can anyone say "high drag coefficient?"
Just keep it away from dogs. . .
Only thing missing are some Mexicans with rakes.
@smokeydog001: lmho wow Hey instead of the guy in the middle of the intersection, offering to wash your window for a quarter, he'll trim your lawn.
I wonder what this really does to aerodynamics. It seems to me that all of the blades would lay down at speed and not really cause much drag. The blades might even create little vortexes... I imagine the additional weight might kill the gas mileage more than the increased drag.
Hey if you reach out and put one blade between your hands at high speed, will it whistle?
HA! Next best thing... [www.grassonthedash.com]
Muppet cars.
i think that settles it... my next paintjob is going to be mil. spec. digcam... pixelated and all...
@chrystlubitshi
digicam
@clinto: Build vehicles that already look blown up/wrecked, but drive and move fine...
I've just spotted the only thing uglier than a Honda Element! ...A Honda Element covered in fake grass.
Will GM announce the "SOD 9-3"?
Will Flex Fuel now include Scott's Turf Builder?
(*groan*)
Okay...Lada Niva, Renault Kangoo, VW Type 1, Smart ForTwo, Citroen 2CV, uh...does anyone know what the next one is? I reckon it's Japanese; maybe an old Civic or a Daihatsu Mira or something. Anyway...Toyota Previa, VW Jetta, Mercedes-Benz (C or E-Class, I think), Honda Element, Honda Civic Coupé, VW Jetta.
Can I have a cookie?
A racing stripe with white jonquils would be the boss!
Hell, just cover the roof of a Ford Expedition or stretch Town Car in AstroTurf and paint field stripes so kids can play soccer on it.
@Mad_Science:
Just cover the vehicle in sandpaper then.
Don't bogart the bug, dude.
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