One might recall the roughly 24-hour social-media freakout back in June when Lexus unveiled a working hoverboard. “It’s 2015,” the people rejoiced, “and hoverboards are a reality, just as Robert Zemeckis and Michael J. Fox told us they would be!” Toyota’s luxury division quickly quashed hopes that you’d be able to wander into a dealership and walk out with anything other than an RX, telling us that they’d worked with European engineers to create the contraption purely for marketing purposes.
-And now they’ve released the full video featuring the mythical device, which we’ve helpfully embedded below. Using a specially constructed skate park built over some manner of ferrous material, skater Ross McGouran flits about on the thing, attempts a railslide, does some falling off, gets chased around by a drone, and eventually does what looks like garden-variety pool riding—except that he is, of course, not in contact with the surface of the wall. He also flies over a moving example of the new GS F.
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It’s neat, for sure. The deck looks cool with all the condensation billowing from the liquid nitrogen used to cool the magnets. But can we talk about the soundtrack for a moment? We suppose it’s Lexus-demographic appropriate, but if they’d handed the project to us, we probably would’ve gone the something-totally-obvious route and used Suicidal Tendencies’ “Possessed to Skate.” Or at the very least, something by McRad.
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