As Halloween haunts our imaginations, hovering like a sugar-crazed ghost no more than a day away, it's a good idea to look for something to do with that pile of uneaten trick-or-treat candy you can't scarf down because you're convinced urban legend worshippers packed it chock-full of imaginary razor blades.
Fortunately, some brainy Wonka-types from the U.K.'s University of Warwick have squeezed the "world of pure imagination" and cranked out a race car that runs on chocolate and animal fats.
Promising a top speed of 135 mph and a 0-60 time of 2.5 seconds, the entirely "green" hot cocoa speed machine is mashed together with flax, recycled carbon fibre, recycled resin and carrot pulp. To complete the effect, it's lubricated with plant oil. The car's components conveniently combine to form a biodegradable coffin for the sucker who wrecks this "Al Gore-ian" nightmare on the track. (See what I did there? "Sucker?" Candy theme? Never mind.)
Scientists have yet to determine what kind of chocolate keeps the car in top gear, but Europe's top race drivers insist it can't be that waxy crap they pour over Whoppers and Butterfingers. There's also no word if NASCAR drivers will attempt a similar-themed machine powered by pork rinds and votes for Republicans.
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