Toys: Car covered by 4000+ cars

Scientists say that all small things and strucutures are repeated those large ones. This car covered by thousands of small cars is the other way round.

You see, a London artist by the name of James R. Ford has taken his 1981 Mk III Ford Capri and turned it into a General Lee look-alike. Well, if you squint from a block away, maybe.

The "paintjob" on this particular replica is actually a mosaic covering that uses 4,342 scale model cars. James apparently made a global appeal for toy cars for his project, and received donations from as far away as Australia.

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Source: Autoblog

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Ford: Made by Mac

We all know about a Mac integrated to your car. But at Ford the cars are built by these wonderful little machines.

Ford Motor's contractor has installed the Apple-made computers in two of the automaker's northern Indiana factories as part of a sequencing solution to boost assembly line efficiency.

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A total of 14 Mac minis running on Intel Core Solo chips have been operational at the plants since early November, helping Ford assemble 800 cars a day.

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Source: MacCentral

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