Lexus put wheels made entirely out of ice on one of its cars, and it worked

Lexus is no stranger to pushing its car designs to the edge of innovation — in October, the automaker made a driveable replica of its model IS using 1,700 sheets of cardboard.

Now Lexus is pushing a winter theme with its latest, crazy design project: putting a frozen Lexus NX on wheels made entirely of ice. Believe it or not, the car was able to drive on its ice wheels.

Here's a closer look at the car and how Lexus made it:

Lexus teamed up with LaserCut Works, which also assisted with the cardboard car, and ice sculptors from Hamilton Ice Sculpture to create the ice wheels.

The car was first submerged in water and frozen in -22 degrees Fahrenheit for five days. "The noises from covering it in the water, I thought I had broken the car at one point, I thought I had shattered the wind screen," ice sculptor Jack Hackney said in a video.

LaserCut Works started with a digital design of the wheel itself to figure out how to assemble it.

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