Check out the Coke Zero and Mentos rocket car

Candy powered rocket car fulled by Coke and Mentos breaks distance record.. travelling 239 feet.

As motorsports go it's a long way from catching up with Formula 1.

But the inventors known for making a vehicle with soda-and-candy-powered propulsion say they've set a new distance record.

Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz created a single-seat rocket car powered by 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 Mentos.

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