Name: Here's how the 'world's fastest bumper car' was made
Uploaded: 2017-04-14T14:02:18+00:00
Description: The British inventor Colin Furze gives a super detailed look at how exactly he built the 'world's fastest bumper car'.

Here's how the 'world's fastest bumper car' was made

It can travel at over 100 miles per hour.

Dodgems -- or bumper cars as they're also known -- can be the most or least fun thing ever, depending on how much you enjoy intentionally bumping into people. But they're not necessarily known for being super speedy.

The British inventor and YouTuber Colin Furze has built the "world's fastest bumper car" after being challenged by BBC's Top Gear to make something slow into something really fast.

In the video above, Furze gives a step-by-step account of how he made the car which travels at over 100mph and has a 600cc engine.

Not to be tried at home, folks.

Anne-Marie Tomchak

Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK Editor of Mashable, where she heads up the company's operations from London. She has spent over a decade reporting and presenting for national and international broadcasters including the BBC, RTE, Deutsche Welle, American Public Media and NPR. In 2013, Anne-Marie launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. During her time at the corporation, she also developed the mobile video offering on the BBC News app and fronted live social broadcasts. Anne-Marie is a leading digital media voice contextualizing the role of technology in the modern world. She has made a number of feature length TV documentaries for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE in her capacity as UK Editor for Mashable, including ‘Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data?’ (Nov 2016) about big data and digital fingerprints and “Will A Robot Steal My Job” (Nov 2017) about the impact of AI and automation on the workforce. The Irish Times listed her as '30 Irish Women You Need to Know' for International Women's Day and she is one of Silicon Republic's '30 Incredible Irish people leading a European invasion'.