New Fastest Furniture World Record Achieved on a Sofa

There is a new world record holder in the Fastest Furniture category witnessed and verified by The Guinness Book of World Records. The sofa.com high speed sofa hit 92mph.

(PRWEB) May 16, 2007 -- He's a record breaker… On Sunday May 13, 2007 Marek Turowski broke the Fastest Furniture Land Speed Record by driving the sofa.com high speed sofa (http://www.sofa.com/) at 92mph. The previous record, 87mph, was set in 1998.

The record attempt was witnessed and verified by a representative of The Guinness Book of World Records and the feat will appear in the next published edition! The record was broken at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome in Lutterworth Leicestershire, on a two mile long 60 metre wide racing straight normally used to test top-secret specialist Ministry of Defence projects.

Footage of the sofa speed record (http://www.sofa.com/sofarecord/) is now available online.

Marek, the new world record holder, said:

"It was terrifying. You feel every bump… Worse, you feel like you might take off."

Marek, a 38 year old gardener from South London, successfully bought his shot at glory on an eBay auction held earlier this year. He paid top dollar to a great cause with all proceeds going directly to The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID).

The sofa was built by Edd China who held the existing record. Edd said:

"It's been sad to see my record beaten, but world records only have real value when they're challenged. And at least I still have the constructor's title to boast about."

The sofa.com high speed sofa is road legal and will soon be seen driving the streets of West London where the sofa retailer is based. It will be staying strictly within the speed limit…

Selling Sofas

Sofa.com (http://www.sofa.com) is the UK's newest and best sofa retailer providing beautiful, well made, generously proportioned and practical sofas. The sofas are covered in seriously good natural fabrics and represent outstanding value. More often than not they can be delivered immediately. Sofa.com sells online and over the phone. It was started in September 2006 by Pat Reeves and Rohan Blacker, founders of Deliverance, London's renowned home-delivery food business.

In an Excellent Cause…

Sofa.com was pleased to donate 100% of proceeds from the auction to The Foundation for the study of Infant Deaths (FSID) which is the UK's leading baby charity aiming to prevent unexpected deaths in infancy and promote infant health (http://www.sids.org.uk). FSID fulfils these aims by:

- Funding research

- Supporting families whose babies have died suddenly and unexpectedly

- Disseminating information on infant health, baby care and sudden infant deaths to health professionals and the general public

- Working with professionals to improve investigations when a baby dies

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