Outside a William Ashley store in downtown Toronto a Lamborghini Gallardo has been posed on top of four china cups.
Autoblog writes: "The Gallardo was hoisted up with a crane and delicately set atop four tea cups beneath each wheel. There's literally nothing holding up this car's curb weight of 3,153 lbs. except four tiny tea cups." Is this real? Can four tea cups really support the weight of a car? After all, that's 788 lbs of pressure per cup. I'd feel a little nervous standing on top of a tea cup, and I only weigh 180 lbs. I understand that ceramic has very high compressive strength, but I didn't realize that the design of a teacup would maximize that strength. This seems like an experiment for the Mythbusters.
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You can get a similar result from an egg. If the egg is small enough that you can put your hand completely around it, and if you apply pressure evenly on it, you can squeeze it as hard as you possibly can without so much as cracking the egg shell (if you decide to try this at home, though, I would strongly suggest trying it first with a boiled egg).
Tough stuff china.
The manager of the Toronto Lamborghini dealership lives two doors down from me lol
I'm sure he was involved in letting this happen, I should ask him the next time I see him.
I believe the Gallardo is a mid-engine, meaning the majority of the weight of the engine is forward of the rear axle. Mid-engine is the most desirable configuration for a sports car as this gives the best weight distribution for handling.
Anyway, after the reading the blog entry my gut feeling says real...
The color reminds me of the 70s-vintage Fiat X1/9s
I still haven't asked him, I dont think he's home yet.
I.. I actually feel a little creepy. It's like I'm stalking him.
Hmmmm! <sarcasm>I wondeer why?</sarcasm>
I don't understand the allure of myspace, I had to open an account to send a message and I find it sloppy, laggy and a PITA. Maybe it just offends my designer sensibilities or something.
Anyone know if there is another way to send to a message to them? Discovery's webpage is a mess.
and I just wanted to add that everything could be missing.
Auto and large appliance makers often manufacture hollow
versions of large products for display purposes.
There are several reasons for this.
They cost less to ship, can be rigged for suspended 'aerial'
displays, can fit through a small door and be assembled in a space where they otherwise wouldn't fit, etc.
almost forgot... So the ad wouldn't really be a lie.
The teacups ARE holding the car...
they're just omitting that it's not a car one could drive.
I'm not dead certain if it's real, but my gut sez that it is.
You'll note the bearers are placed on a block, probably of an engineering grade plastic, and a similar block is placed on the top of the cup rim, this evens the load.
When I was being annoyed by a woman at an outdoor crafts fair, who said my porcelain wine-goblets looked too fragile, I took one and threw it as high in the air as I could. As I expected, it plummeted to the ground without harm... on grass, of course.
I sold them all within twenty minutes.
So -conclusion?
No Hoax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmPK1lkOINU
Sorry, but it didn't occur to me that there would be this discussion on whether it was a hoax. It didn't appear to be a hoax in the least bit to me, standing there in front of it, but then I didn't even think of holding the camera under the table. In walking around I'm fairly sure there was nothing out of the ordinary underneath the table.
"In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate partner. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers."
She may be more delicate, but weaker is probably a less than perfect adjective.