Car games

[snopes]

Comment: I found these videos on youtube the other day. They seem too incredible to actually be real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6UsveGQCVo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlWSW8K4Aw

[Malruhn]

There is no way in hell that those are real. The one in which the driver goes out the door, he doesn't have time to get back in and in position to drive by the time the car is airborne off the other side.

Some GOOD photo-editing, in my opinion.

[TheAmazingRando]

judging by carscoop it seems to be a form of viral advertising on the part of Nissan to promote their new car. Very well made, though.

[One-Fang]

You have to wonder, is this only going to encourage someone to actually try these stunts? In general, people are stupid. If they see this kind of thing and think it's real, they'll think they can do it, too.

I agree with TheAmazingRando, it does seem to be some sort of Viral advertising. Think about it, the guy in the first video would not have enough time to get back in the car to steer it. Second, look at the quality of the video (first one); it looks suspiciously like they did that on purpose to somehow improve the Believability. For the second one, though...I'm not sure, but I guess it's an advertisement.

[Diabolus Ex Deus]

Of course it's fake.
Why even analyze it?
There's no reason to suspect it's real.

Just look at the physics.

[Mickey Blue]

Clearly fake.. How would you "turn" the car once you got on the halfpipe? If you turned it before you left the track you'd just fly off into that direction, if you didn't you'd go up... Then come back down backwords (assuming you didn't fall back or some other crash, but you wouldn't "turn" like a skateboarder..

That said it appears to have been proven false at this point.

[One-Fang]

Well, the engine end is generally heavier, and movies like Transporter 2 notwithstanding, will usually turn a car nose-down when it's in the air.

Of course, a perfect turn in exactly the arc required is as much fantasy as flying across the gap between two buildings. But the beginnings of enough to make some people question it could be had in the engine-heavy concept.

[Troberg]

Clearly fake.. How would you "turn" the car once you got on the halfpipe?

Probably fake, but it's perfectly possible to turn the car, assuming it's front wheel drive. Turn the wheels, then accellerate and the gyroscopic effect will turn it. You could probably make it easier to turn by altering the centre of gravity with weights as well.

The main problem is probably to get it to hit the ramp correctly. Hit it too far down and the car lands on its nose. Too far up and it jumps outside the ramp, on its nose.

I think this one is for Mythbusters. Plenty of car wrecking opportunities in debunking this.

What's supposed to happen in the second video? It's too dark for me to see clearly. Is it a complete loop, or is there a gap? And the way the video is edited removes almost all of the action.

Oh, and when the second clip ends one of the clips it prompted me with was the "Cat on LSD" from the other thread. I think perhaps we're contributing to its popularity.

Gofer

[Le Chevalier Blanc]

The video is shown on other sites and on one of them, this website is displayed at the end of the video:

http://www.qashqaicargames.com/

Perhaps someone more adept (and with more time) than me can determine if it is linked to some sort of viral advertising. There is a link in the "Links" section of the site to Nissan:

http://www.nissan-europe.com/global/...qai/index.html

-Le Chevalier Blanc
"Chivalry is not dead - it's just paralyzed from the neck up"