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While driving a relatively pokey 92 mph will get you run over on many interstates, Marek Turowski made it into the Guinness Book of World Records doing it ... on a couch.

Watch the video after the jump to see this highly modified (ya think?) super sofa break the record for World's Fastest Furniture. Turowski, 38, paid £1,376 on eBay for the privilege of piloting the rear-engined couch, which was commissioned by sofa.com from Edd China of Cummfy Banana. Turowski's run to 92 mph beats the previous record of 87 mph set in 1998 by the Casual Lofa driven by the aforementioned China, who says his latest creation is street legal and will soon be menacing the streets of London.

The leopard-print Casual Lofa seated three and was powered by a 1300cc Mini engine with 65bhp. But details on this new machine are hard to come by. It's hard to tell for sure from the video, but is that a propeller off the back? We're trying to contact the folks at Cummfy and hope to have more info soon.

Proceeds from the eBay auction benefited The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.

China has built all manner of motorized furniture for Cummfy Banana, where you can rent his creations for corporate events or, we suppose, just a fun entry into a local Autocross event. What bracket would that compete in anyway?

See sofa.com's press release after the jump.

[Source: Engadget]

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