You Can Ride in a Giant Shopping Cart Down the Las Vegas Strip

• No, it’s not that Fat Tuesday slushie, you really do see a shopping cart full of humans stuck in traffic in front of the Bellagio
• Cartzilla is the latest way to regret spending $60 in Las Vegas 

The right question to ask about a ridiculous new experience in Las Vegas isn’t why, since the answer is always the same: because there will be people willing to pay to try it. The latest example is a giant simulated shopping cart that does nothing but drive passengers up and down the Strip.

Cartzilla (no relation to the Slotzilla zipline at the Fremont Street Experience, which actually is fun) is the idea of a former Zion Park tour guide named Kurt Osburn.

Like many others, Kurt enjoyed racing shopping carts in grocery store aisles and parking lots as a kid,” the copy on cartzillaride.com reads. “One day, he had a simple idea: why not mix fun cart rides with local tours?”

It took three years for Osburne to build the world’s “only street-legal shopping cart” around a Chevy Suburban with a 400-horsepower LS1 engine. It holds seven people, plus the driver, and its orangey-red handle is over 10 feet tall.

If you see Cartzilla pulling alongside you on the Strip, please empathize with its passengers, do not mock them. They read the snappy website copy and it sounded like fun. And for the first five minutes, it was.

Then they realized that a hot rod is no fun to ride inside of in snarled traffic, and that they’re actually riding on the outside of one, which means being stuck in the Las Vegas sun for an hour without shade. (There are built-in misters, at least.)

If you would like to pay $60 for “a jaw-dropping, adrenaline-filled experience that combines the thrill of a high-powered ride with the iconic Las Vegas vibe,” go ahead and visit cartzillaride.com.

For $70, they’ll throw in a free hat.