Ever wonder what a Skoda Karoq would look like if it
were made out of cardboard instead of steel? Yeah, us neither. But Skoda went
ahead and built one anyway. Called the Kid Karoq, the full-size replica of the
Czech crossover took some 600 man-hours of work over the course of 10 weeks to
build.
While the shape was made out of plain old cardboard,
not everything on board was. The craftsmen at British design studio Lazerian
fitted the Kid Karoq with a video game console behind the wheel, an iPad in the
dashboard, a set of wireless speakers, and a multicolored disco ball.
It also has onboard wifi, a film projector, bean
bags, and a “secret den” under the hood with holes for peering out undetected.
It even has a slide leading into a pool filled with 1,500 more balls – the
exact number, apparently, that you could fit in the cargo compartment of the
actual Karoq, whose arrival in UK showrooms the cardboard version was built to
celebrate.
The project stems from a survey of a thousand kids
between the ages of 6 and 11, nearly three quarters of which said they'd built
their own cars out of cardboard, too.
