{"id":601143,"date":"2026-04-23T07:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:24:46","slug":"his-granborghini-project-gives-elderly-people-joyrides-in-supercars-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601143\/","title":{"rendered":"His \u2018Granborghini\u2018 Project Gives Elderly People Joyrides in Supercars (WATCH)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u2013 credit, @_grandborghini<\/p>\n

An Englishman whose grandmother took her own life while suffering from loneliness has started a turbo-charged effort to reduce social isolation.<\/p>\n

Called \u201cGranborghini\u201d the charity connects seniors and elderly in the UK with the owners of supercars made by Ferrari and Maclaren to give them a spin.<\/p>\n

Organizer Mark Cody had always promised \u2018gran\u2019 he\u2019d take her for a ride in a Lamborghini one day, but never got the opportunity. After, he made a promise to make sure others would have the same chance in the name of preventing future tragedies of isolation.<\/p>\n

Cody says he didn\u2019t know about the widespread epidemic of loneliness among retirees in the UK, but after learning about its pervasiveness, made a few phone calls and Granborghini was born.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat started out a as daft idea, trying to do some good and raise awareness in a wild and exciting way for people who get forgotten about, has blown me away with the response,\u201d Cody told the UK<\/a>\u2018s \u2018This Morning\u2019 show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had people step out of the car and say \u2018I feel like a rock star\u2019 or \u2018I feel 20 years younger,’\u201d Cody then told the BBC.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s so heart-warming and overwhelming emotionally to see people\u2019s reactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Partnering with Mark is 82-year-old Betty Tynan, organizer of a small social group called Friendship Lunches, and also the first gran to get behind the wheel of one of the supercars.<\/p>\n

HELPING THE ELDERLY:\u00a0<\/p>\n

One day, she and her friends were having a fundraising event and Cody was there with three supercars. As Tynan revealed recently, even though the opportunity was there to drive one, the members of the luncheon club were like wildebeest at the edge of the river waiting to see who\u2019s the first one to jump in.<\/p>\n

For starters, the low riding cars are a bit difficult to get in and out of you know. But Tynan is a social soul, and wanted to have a go immediately. The MacLaren\u2019s owner, Robbin Gibbons, said he got involved with Granborghini in order to do exactly what he wanted to do when he bought the car: make people smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got a good few cars here and I\u2019m hoping to get in every one,\u201d said Tynan. \u201cIt\u2019s made our lives, doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

WATCH one of the grans take a spin in a Lambo\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

SHARE These Grannies\u2019 Wild Ride With Your Friends\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2013 credit, @_grandborghini An Englishman whose grandmother took her own life while suffering from loneliness has started a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10100,2754,1115,9333,13788,97,259,1120,5642,2761],"class_list":{"0":"post-601143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-automotive","9":"tag-depression","10":"tag-elderly","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fun","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-seniors","16":"tag-suicide","17":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}