Typically when a car’s situation is past restore, we prefer to have a little bit of enjoyable with it as soon as we all know there’s not a lot left of it to lose. Living proof is that this Toyota Yaris “speedster” noticed driving down the highway in Tennessee, which is devoid of its roof and home windows.

Primarily based on the big dent on the driving force’s facet, it seems as if the automobile was concerned in some type of facet influence collision, doubtless rendering it a totaled car. In some unspecified time in the future after that, the roof was chopped off and the home windows have been taken with it, together with a handful of different parts akin to the driving force’s facet door deal with. Evidently, eradicating the roof severely compromises the car’s integrity, because it not solely protects you in a rollover, however it additionally contributes an excellent deal to its structural rigidity within the occasion of a collision.

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However regardless of how clearly harmful it’s with no rollover or facet influence safety, now we have to confess that driving round a roofless Yaris seems like it might be a great deal of enjoyable, albeit not on public roads. Other than the open-air expertise, with a couple of hundred kilos saved by deleting the roof and glass, the automobile would in all probability be a bit zippier in a straight line. We’d lengthen these weight reduction good points to the dealing with as nicely, however with no A, B, or C-pillars, the Yaris has virtually definitely misplaced lots of chassis stiffness. So long as it’s stored off the streets, it might be a really fascinating expertise.

At first look, this automobile seems like little greater than a hack job try at making a Yaris speedster, which it very nicely might be. Nevertheless, as one commenter on the unique Reddit publish identified, this might be a totaled junkyard automobile getting used for components, and the proprietor is solely attempting to drive it residence somewhat than having it towed. Regardless, we will at the very least commend the proprietor for carrying a helmet as he drives the sketchy Yaris down the highway, although we don’t assume it’ll assist a lot in an accident.