April Fools’ Day 2018: the best jokes from the car industry

The CR-V roadster concept is essentially a hacked-into Honda CR-V that’s lost its B and C-pillars, and roof. The result is a structurally unsound car, hand crafted by an angle grinder and backed for production by, um, Honda’s PR team.

“This is a bold new direction for the CR-V and opens up an entirely new non-existent market,” said the project’s boss, EipurirufÅ«ru, which translates into April Fool in English. “Our sales target is somewhat conservative to start with, at zero cars, but we are confident that once the minor glitches are ironed out, such as the lack of roof and the fact it is totally structurally unsound, the car will fly out of showrooms.”

MG alpaca power

MG reckons it’s found a quick fix for car emissions – and it comes thanks to alpacas. Apparently, MG engineers have found a way to use their waste as fuel.

“Following our decisions to no longer sell diesel-powered vehicles in the UK market, we wanted to take it one step further and see what was possible using alternative fuels to develop low emission vehicles,” said MG UK’s sales and marketing boss, Daniel Gregorious.

While it might help to cut CO2 emissions, we’re not sure you’d want to be following a car pumping this stuff out of its exhaust tailpipe.