Is it possible to make a driveable car out of cardboard? Turns out it is. Lexus pays homage to the incredibly skilled crafts people who work on their production lines in Japan by folding a driveable origami car.

This is the life-sized replica of the Lexus IS.

It uses 1,700 pieces of laser-cut cardboard.

They're calling it the "Origami Car."

It comes with an electric motor and can actually be driven.

It has cardboard seats and interior too.

It took three months by a team of modellers and designers from UK companies Scales and Models and LaserCut Works with the help from carboard manufacturers DS Smith to craft out 1,700 fully recyclable laser-cut cardboard pieces.

An electric motor was mounted on a steel and aluminum frame.

The car will be on display at the Grand Designs Live Show in Birmingham from 8 October.

Imagine all of this is actually made out of cardboard.

Here are the people involved in the project:

And if you were wondering just how the "takumis" of Lexus train, they fold origami cats in 90s seconds using their non-dominant hand: