Man installs wood burning stove in car

Driving in the winter can be a chilly experience.

There is nothing worse than waiting for your car window to de-mist in the morning so you can take off.

Fed up with his air conditioning, one man from Zurich, Switzerland, has found a novel solution to the problem of a cold car.

Pascal Prokop drives a 1990 Volvo 240, but with a difference, as it has a fully-functional wood burning stove in it.

He has taken the passenger seat out of the vehicle in order to accommodate the massive heating device and added a chimney to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning from being a problem.

You have to admire the ingenuity at work here and if he does get stuck in any traffic jams or suffers a breakdown, he doesn't have to worry about going cold.

Swiss officials are obviously taken with the development too, as they have given the modification the thumbs up.

Posted by Mark Wilkins