Soapbox Derby? Hah. Chinese engineer builds toy car for son

[Fairportfan]

Engineer Dad Builds His Son The Best Toy Car We've Ever Seen

The builder of this sub-scale, carbon-fiber beauty is a Chinese automotive engineer who goes by the handle Lingziluo, and, according to his answers on a reddit thread, the little car cost over $15,000 in parts, and if you were to factor in the labor cost, would easily cost more than a new BMW 3 Series. That kid better not complain about getting underpants for his birthday.

The little car itself is extremely technically impressive. It's built on a custom aluminum (?) chassis that resembles a VW air-cooled pan, but with much better suspension. Double wishbone suspension, in fact, along with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel disc brakes, and an electric motor/transaxle unit mounted just ahead of the rear axle. Custom alloy rims mount the rubber at the corners, and the whole thing has a build quality that both looks on par with custom full-sized race cars and is so far beyond what any of the real cars I own has it hurts a little.

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Theoretically capable of 86MPH, governed to 3MPH...

{Geeze. I hate translating BBCode between forums...}

[Jabberwonky]

The nay-sayers on the comments need to hush up. That's too cool!
(at the article's site, not here)

[Julie]

I would have killed to have something that cool as a kid! Mega props to that dad!