Full Size Lamborghini Made Entirely of Paperboard

 

Konno Konpou, a paperboard manufacturing company located in Ishinomaki, Japan, northeast of Sendai, has built a life-size model of a Lamborghini entirely out of paperboard. Called the "Damborghini" (danboard is the Japanese name for paperboard), it was finished on November 4 of this past year and has been on display since December 23 at Konpo's Factory, a store managed by Konno Konpou in the nearby town of Onagawa.

Hideki Konno, the CEO of Konno Konpou, built a paperboard dinosaur before this project, and prepared for the life-size Damborghini with production models at ⅛ and ½ scale. The actual life-size Damborghini (photo) took six months and six people to build. It weighs about 100 kg (or 220 lb) and can be carried easily with a team, as shown in a promotional video. Although it's for display only, the car includes LED lights and a paperboard V12 engine underneath the hood.

It also includes a variation on the Lamborghini emblem, which changes the raging bull into a peaceful dairy cow (the area has many dairy farms), wearing sunglasses, because the CEO likes them.

Konno explains that he built the Damborghini to stem the outflow of young people from the region, which was hard-hit by the 2011 tsunami. "I wanted to show (not tell) that the area has adults with creative, cool jobs." The model has attracted tens of thousands of visitors to Konpo's factory, and a tweet advertising it was retweeted about 10,000 times in one week.

Unfortunately, the Damborghin made the international news circuit late this past month because it is accruing damage. Visitors, justifying themselves by the lack of signage, have been hitting and pushing the car. A sign, worded like the now unpopular but infamous sports car owner's obnoxious sounding alarm system, now directs visitors to keep their hands off and to back away from the vehicle.