Audi Quattro drives up to a ski jump (with snow)

[youcan]

Old video

New video

[OCUJer]

The old one was SO being towed up the hill. You can tell they tried to hide the cable from view.

If they put that same commercial out today in the US it would have 1000 disclaimers about it at the bottom.
*Do not Attempt, Professional Driver, Closed Course*
*Results Not Typical*
*Simulation, Car is Actually Being Towed*
*Don't try this you flippin' Moron! You'll die!*
*Grow a Brain*

But that new one, WOW, I don't care what kind of tires they put on it, that was impressive. I'd like to see if some other AWD can do that, would be the new standard for AWD's.
1. 1/4 mile
2. 0-60
3. 0-100
4. 0-60-0
5. Ski Jump

[Matt-Helm]

"If they put that same commercial out today in the US it would have 1000 disclaimers about it at the bottom.
*Do not Attempt, Professional Driver, Closed Course*
*Results Not Typical*
*Simulation, Car is Actually Being Towed*
*Don't try this you flippin' Moron! You'll die!*
*Grow a Brain*"

I agree.. because we all have access to a 70m Ski Jump...

[OCUJer]

Originally Posted by Matt-Helm

I agree.. because we all have access to a 70m Ski Jump...

Lawyer's Motto: Never Underestimate the ignorance of the American public and the their ability to use it creatively.

[CBFryman]

hell i could jerry rig a ski jump from 5 sheets of ply wood, 2 2x4's a case of beer and 1/2 of an old tin roof.
that is amazing...there are 4wd trucks that couldnt do that. i bet that drivers balls just got 3 times bigger. that or they already where hanging to the floor. you see how steep that incline was? and he was accelerating up it....i bet it wouldnt have taken much bot a little more top heavy and a good gust and he would have been over....

[OCUJer]

Originally Posted by CBFryman

i could jerry rig a ski jump from 5 sheets of ply wood, 2 2x4's a case of beer and 1/2 of an old tin roof.

Ok, I get the plywood, 2x4's and the tin roof, but is the beer for stability or courage?

[nfg2184]

Originally Posted by OCUJer

The old one was SO being towed up the hill. You can tell they tried to hide the cable from view.

They were both obviously attached to a cable. That doesn't mean the cable was pulling it though, it was just a safety precaution. If that sucker locked up and started goin backwards down the jump, that cable would stop the car and keep the driver alive.

[CBFryman]

beer, well that is for a tastey beverage while we construct this beast here in florida where it is actually geting a little warm... and when we finish it you will be drunk enough to get in the car and test it out...
but where are we going to get an audi quatro and snow???

[OCUJer]

Originally Posted by nfg2184

They were both obviously attached to a cable. That doesn't mean the cable was pulling it though, it was just a safety precaution. If that sucker locked up and started goin backwards down the jump, that cable would stop the car and keep the driver alive.

You are right that they were both hooked up to a cable but the quattro in the older vid was being towed. Look at the tires that are on it agian, they are stock radials, not nearly the spiked tires that were on the new car. Also look at the old video again, between 41-43 seconds you can see that the car under its own power is beginning to veer of to the side much like the early attempts with the new quattro before the mega tires. Needless to say the old car did not climb that jump on its own.

[smooth-daddy]

Originally Posted by youcan

Old video

New video

at 2:10-2:13 into vid, almost at the top, you can see no spinning of any tires throwing snow back (like it made it all the way up without any wheelspinning, especially at the very top where it would most likely be digging for traction, sure thing bud).

[4-THGENH24LUDE]

CBFryman If you can get the rest I will go "borrow" the Quattro, and drive it up the homemade lift thingy, but we would still have to find snow.