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Artist Creates Life-Size Origami Juke to Celebrate Its Fifth Anniversary

In kindergarten, they teach children how to make origami boats, trains and famous cartoon heroes. In adult-land, they make life-size SUVs that may not drive on the public road but look just the same as the original.
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It’s not just its fifth birthday, mind you, Nissan is also celebrating the Juke because the SUV is the company’s second best-selling model in Europe with over 700,000 units deployed on the old continent.

Nissan partnered up with British artist Owen Gildersleeve, who has created this unique project. The craftsman hand-built the intricate replica model from paper to the exact dimensions of the current real-life Juke. It wasn’t exactly easy as drinking a glass of water, as Owen took more than 200 hours and folded more than 2,000 pieces of paper to create the detailed sculpture.

Not only did he do an excellent job, but the paper Juke features the same design cues - such as the wheel fenders, lights and grille - that give the real-life model its distinctive character. As a matter of fact, Nissan claims that the standout styling has been a key factor in the model’s success.

As mentioned above, since first deliveries began in October 2010, more than 150,000 Juke models have been sold in the UK alone, with over 700,000 total sales across Europe, making it the continent’s best-selling compact crossover.

However, the Japanese are not stopping here, as they recently confirmed that the Sunderland plant - where the cute SUV is produced - would make the next-generation Juke benefiting from a further £100 million ($154 million at the current exchange rate) investment.

Darryl Scriven, Design Manager at Nissan’s Design Centre for Europe, said, “The first step of any car design involves putting pencil to paper. From that simple start, it’s a complex journey to production involving hundreds of skilled people, thousands of man-hours and millions in investment. So we think it’s very apt that on its fifth birthday, we celebrate the Nissan Juke with a tribute that harks back to that simple, but bold, first step, all carried out with Nissan’s signature innovation and excitement of course.”

The Origami Juke is revealed as “World Origami Days” are celebrated across the world between October 24 and November 11.

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