{"id":696068,"date":"2026-04-01T00:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/696068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:59:24","slug":"a-car-with-a-human-skin-like-interior-complete-with-hair-and-moles-was-made-for-a-good-reason-but-holy-crap-is-it-unsettling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/696068\/","title":{"rendered":"A Car With A Human Skin-Like Interior Complete With Hair And Moles Was Made For A Good Reason But Holy Crap Is It Unsettling"},"content":{"rendered":"

How\u2019s your day going so far? Pretty well? Free of, say, deep-set feelings of discomfort and existential disgust and a body horror that makes you want to just launch yourself into the nearest black hole? If so, great. But how\u2019d you like to change that? If you feel like your day has been too free of such terrors, allow me to introduce you to a 2020ish Toyota Camry that has had its interior redone in what looks just like human skin, down to having pores, moles, blemishes, and hair. Oh, and a nipple. There\u2019s at least one nipple in there.<\/p>\n

Yes, a car interior slathered in human skin! It\u2019s as good as it sounds! The skin can also redden and, significantly, get sunburned. Because\u00a0that\u2019s the real point of this car, not making you want to stop being a corporeal being altogether, but rather to make you more aware of the dangers of skin cancer, and in that context, it does a pretty good job.<\/p>\n

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The car was commissioned by Australia\u2019s mycar Tyre & Auto<\/a> and is designed to bring about more skin cancer awareness, as Australia has one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world. The car\u2019s interior is upholstered in a (thankfully) synthetic material that reacts to UV exposure in much the same way as human skin, so you can see how much risk there is even while you\u2019re inside\u00a0your car.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The company worked with an expert in the field, Dr. Jo Maitz, Burns Surgeon-Scientist at Concord Hospital in Sydney, who describes the experiment as<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026an important reminder to drivers and their passengers to understand the UV risk and protect themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Maitz also worked closely with the team that made the Sunburnt Car, who normally specialize in creature and prosthetic special effects, so they\u2019re very used to replicating highly-realistic-looking skin. Damian Martin and Adam Johansen were the principal craftspeople behind the interior, and they did a fantastic job, both based on the metrics of accuracy and demonstrating the effects of sun on skin and on how absolutely mind-scramblingly disturbing the end result is.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so creepy. The hair:<\/p>\n

\"Hairydash\"<\/p>\n

Hair is bad on a dashboard, but somehow it\u2019s even worse on a seat:<\/p>\n

\"Hairy<\/p>\n

\u2026and I think this is some sort of scab?<\/p>\n

\"Scab\"<\/p>\n

\u2026and holy crap, they actually did it, I think this is a nipple, a mothergrabbing nipple:<\/p>\n

\"Afuckingnipple<\/p>\n

It\u2019s terrifying. And look, I get it\u2019s for a good cause, and while this video from a local news channel states the \u201cintention wasn\u2019t to make people feel discomfort\u201d:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2026there\u2019s no\u00a0way they weren\u2019t aware of the gut-level impact a car full of skin and hair and pores and nipples would have on people. I mean, that\u2019s\u00a0why I\u2019m writing about this now. Because it makes me feel so very uncomfortable. Now I know how a Christmas tree must feel when it\u2019s dragged into a wood-paneled den. Terror. Blind, unconscious terror.<\/p>\n

It sort of reminds me of the work of photographer Charlie White<\/a>. He tends to use props that are disturbingly biological, like whatever the hell this woman is manipulating there:<\/p>\n

\"\"Image: Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly<\/p>\n

Whatever that is, it would be right at home as, say, the gearshift in this cursed Camry. Look, mycar Tyre & Auto, I think you accomplished whatever you needed to accomplish with this thing. I\u2019m thinking about skin and skin cancer and whatever. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Now please kindly launch this abomination into the sun.<\/p>\n

Top graphic images: mycar Tyre & Auto<\/p>\n

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