Sofa sets new land speed record for furniture

by Donald Melanson, posted May 16th 2007 at 12:19PM

Besting his own "world's fastest office" in both comfort and speed, this souped-up sofa from furniture-modder Edd China laid claim to the top spot in the Fastest Furniture category in the Guinness Book of World Records over the weekend, reaching a top speed of 92 miles per hour. Sofa-driver Marek Turowski (who won his place in the driver's seat in an eBay auction) described the record-setting run as "terrifying," adding that "you feel every bump... worse, you feel like you might take off." What's more, the sofa is supposedly street-legal, and will apparently soon be motoring around the streets of West London to help attract potential sofa-buyers to Sofa.com (which, sadly, only seems to sell stationary sofas). Of course, no one breaks sofa speed records without taking a camera along, the results of which you can see by hitting up the video after the break.

Filed under: Transportation

Tags: chesterfield, couch, land speed record, LandSpeedRecord, sofa, speed record, SpeedRecord

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nickb834 @ May 16th 2007 12:38PM

In case anyone was curious, the creator of the sofa is Ed China (The tall guy near the radar gun) he also did the road legal 4 poster bed. The short guy with the mockney accent is Mike Brewer - together they present Wheeler Dealers on Discovery Turbo (Europe)

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johdaxx @ May 16th 2007 2:12PM

Engadget's not liable to take a story like this sitting down.

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Tonyyeb @ May 16th 2007 2:13PM

Good work by Edd China and everyone at comfybanana! Well done mate!

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David Rebnord @ May 16th 2007 2:35PM

And it pays for its own operating costs by using the change lost in the seat cushions

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o0adam0o @ May 16th 2007 2:50PM

Thats sofa king cool!

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Will Critchlow @ May 16th 2007 4:42PM

http://www.sofa.com found the guy to drive this through an auction (for charity - http://www.sids.org.uk/). They're going to be putting up some more footage on their website later this week - at http://www.sofa.com/sofarecord/

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March @ Sep 9th 2007 9:35PM

very intreresting, so cool!!

http://www.modern-sofa.net/

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March @ Oct 14th 2007 3:30AM

LEATHER SOFA

http://www.modern-sofa.net/products.php?id=00000001

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