Lexus NX: Technology «frozen water»

Crossover NX — the world's first car, the wheels of which are made of ice.

Ice design wheels for the 2.2-ton off-road vehicle was not so easy. It took computer modeling and laser scanning. And all this took three months.

Further, in the case entered the four sculptors (one per wheel) of the British company Hamilton Ice Sculptors. Handmade, each of them lasted 36 hours — had not only cut the wheel itself, but also to implant in it the LED elements.


Then a pause was taken: NX on their new wheels five days long freezing in a freezer at —30 ° C temperature in preparation for the trip to London.

We recall not so long ago experimented with Lexus sedan IS, the layout of which was made from the finest 1700-sheet 10-millimeter cardboard. In this origamigone the same three months as in the manufacture of ice wheels.


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