Graduate Students Create Splinter, The Wooden Supercar

A group of graduate students from North Carolina State University are working on a thesis project that would have the lads at Morgan green with envy, a one-off supercar built mostly from wood called Splinter.

The vision of industrial design student Joe Harmon, the Splinter isn’t being built as an expanded showpiece, or automotive curio. Instead it’s an honest attempt to explore the possibilities and limitations of wood as a building medium.

Though the planned car sounds almost absurdly ambitious, a mid-engine 600 horsepower supercar built of wood, Harmon and his team have already developed a few features that are interesting, and innovative, even if they may not ever completely work.
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