Beautifully designed cars have often been equated with art pieces though not many perhaps had thought of using them as tools of art. Case in point, the Honda NSX that has been used to etch the image of a hummingbird over the vast stretches of El Mirage in California, Auto Evolution reported.
Of course, that is no mean feat even with the most capable of machines but has been made possible through the deft use of technology. The driver relied on a head-up display that depicted the precise route he had to follow in order to recreate the hummingbird that originally forms part of the famous Nazca geoglyphs etched thousands of years ago.
Also, it is the excellent handling abilities of the car that is called upon here to ensure the end result is just as stunning as the car itself. With the numerous sharp turns that the image comprises of, the whole endeavour call upon as much of the driver's skills as it does of the Acura's driving dynamics.
As Honda revealed, there were no less than 30 hairpin turns needed to give shape to the hummingbird that stretched over a massive 601,195 square meters. Further, a high-resolution image of the original Nazca hummingbird was used to set the GPS co-ordinates that were then fed to the NSX driver's head mounted the display to recreate the design.
Of course, the entire thing is a well thought out marketing ploy that aims to highlight just how agile the NSX is. Powered by a 3.5-liter twin turbocharged V6 engine along with a three electric motor setup, the NSX has a combined power rating of 575 hp and 476 lb-ft of torque.
The two motors sitting on the front wheels are designed to work independently and induce torque vectoring to control the amount of torque to be fed to each wheel. This way, extremely sharp turns can be negotiated as the motors cut down torque on the inner wheel while speeding up the outer wheel, Motor1 explained.
As for the historical significance of the entire effort, the hummingbird forms part of the numerous intricate geometric patterns that were carved on the Nazca Desert by the Peruvian tribes some 1500 to 2500 years ago. Those were much deeper inscriptions where the top dark layer is removed to expose the lighter surface beneath it.
Those escaped the vagaries of nature simply because there aren't many. There is no wind while rainfall is virtually non-existent. Leaves us wondering what made them do those or aids they relied on to craft those figures.
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