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Obviously car enthusiasts would never subject their cars to such a risky contest
The male dominated voices and holding a contest without safety barriers just seems like the whole thing is a boomer male goon fantasy. Plus a where would you attach the strap on the Lamborghini?
Oh come on now, that's another give away. There is no way you have this many of that bend of men at this type of thing and not a single one drags along his former babysitter turned younger girlfriend to show off.
The people in the background remind me of an old video game or something. They are all just doing random jack off movements with their hands and they all start and stop moving at exactly the same time
Absolutely AI, no suspension movement, the rope tied to the bumper would have just ripped the bumper off, there would be much more smoke, the rope gets shorter, the muscle car would not have won that pull against a 4wd Revuelto
Not saying it’s not AI, but wouldn’t the heavier muscle car win at pulling a lighter Lamborghini? I get that in a race it’s lambo 100/100 times. But a tug of war would probably favor the heavier vehicle? Weight aside, the final drive of the muscle car is bigger because it has to move the weight of the vehicle. The lambo is lighter and more tuned obviously, and is all around a better vehicle in every measurable way, but those attributes would be detrimental in a tug of war.
I checked the weights and wow. A 4000lb muscle car would have been considered heavy and mostly for full sized full optioned cars. To think that a modern supercar weigths that is insane.
I could be wrong, but I’d think the wide tires and AWD would win out even if the muscle car was heavier no? At least up to a certain point but I imagine that point would be a significant weight difference.
Without the weight itself, the wider tires and awd aren't enough to bridge the gap. Part of the friction equation is weight pressing the tires against the asphalt to counter the weight pulling them across the asphalt.
But as the other person said, the supercar has the weight advantage, too. Lol
Scott Joplin, who wrote the Entertainer and the Maple Leaf Rag, was at the event and wrote a piece about it called “The Crush Collision March”. Very fun to play.
Reading through all the top comments and I was thinking the same thing, like people really don’t think this happens?, the obvious indicator I think is the starting butt to butt instead of with a taut rope
I always love seeing a couple trucks lose bumpers when they do this. And it is almost always (from my experience) a couple of jacked up lifted 4x4's playing these games lol
At least the video got the most likely result right. Those 2 vehicles both have a lot of power, but in different ranges because they are built for different things. A muscle car would most likely win against a supercar because super cars are generally built for mid-top rpm performance for going fast, while most muscle cars are built for power off the line, the quick short race.
I used to run a 67 Firebird that was putting down 385 horse and 520 lbs of torque to the ground at 2,000 rpms, and when I launched the front end would get airborne. But my top speed was around 130mph because of the gearing in the rear end, the gearing in the transmission, and the fact that my motor (Pontiac 455) redlined at around 4500 rpms. I built her for the 1/4 mile, not Nurburgring lol
I would have thought it would come down to traction rather than raw power, and the Lambos tires are I think wider so should have better traction. I could be wrong on this though.
I'm not an engineer or expert or anything outside of my own personal experience. Traction does matter a lot. And wider tires would add some.
But there are a lot of factors.
What are the tires made of? Most drag racing tires use a super soft rubber because it melts and gets sticky and increase the traction by quite a lot. Most supercars would run a different rubber formulation, still softer than standard car tires, but not as soft as drag racing tires.
How much torque they can apply to the ground also matters. Most supercars have higher gear ratios and develop power in the mid to upper RPM ranges so they can go real damn fast for a long time, while most muscle cars, even OEM stock, have lower gear ratios which allows them to apply more power to the ground at lower RPMS.
If this were a real video there would be a lot of wheel hop going on, with both vehicles bouncing up and down and side to side as they keep breaking and then regaining traction. That's a big tell that this video is fake, how motionless both vehicles are for what they are doing. Plus there is a severe lack of smoke from burning rubber like there would be in real life.
(ETA: in real life the smoke cloud would be so thick it would mostly obscure their rear ends)
(ETA2: Just rewatched it and noticed another problem. When they start they do so with the strap slack and then they yank it hard. You wouldn't start a tug of war like that, it would do damage. You have the one of the 2 vehicles slowly roll forward until all the slack is out of the strap to avoid ripping parts off the vehicles, damaging the frame, etc depending on how the straps are connected to the vehicles.
Which is a 3rd issue, where the hell is that strap attached on those vehicles? It looks like it's wrapped around the Chevelles license plate for fucks sake, and I have no clue where it would be attached on the back of the other vehicle lol)
I’m sure I’ve seen a real video of people doing tug of war and one of the diffs ended up exploding. They didn’t wheel spin, they kind of mini bunny hopped as they gained and lost traction until it became to much.
The main thing here is they didn't slowly stretch the line. When the slack comes out it would've snapped immediately. Car people do this and yes it can kill transmissions ive seen it done in person but you can't hard accelerate into an immediate stop without breaking the rope or bending your frame.
Also the what the fuck is that tow strap attached to?!?! It appears to be where a ball hitch would be on a normal pick up truck but neither of these cars have bumper integrated hitches.
Also the cars get closer together as the video goes on. AGAIN: HOW?!?
One of my favorite movies ever and it only took the 748th watch to realize him telling Forrest that taking care of his feet is the most important thing was foreshadowing.
They absolutely would, but this is definitely fake. They would not be pulling straight against each other in a sort of subtle tug of war. It'd be a lot more "wiggly" and there'd be a lot more slipping and smoke than you see here. The rope also would start under tension. You risk breaking something when you jerk it taught like that. Also, the crowd is just, well, more of a "people pattern" than actual people. Classic AI tell.
Im dying just looking at all the NPCs in the background jerking off their kidneys or thighs. Those men are strangely excited and jittery about watching those cars
I don’t think the license plates they tied those straps to would be able to hold that. And no, anyone who has a $3,000,000 Lamborghini would never do that.
All the dudes filming with their phones, that suddenly vanished when they cheered, and directly back to filming with their magically appearing phone, is just fun to watch
In addition to the AWD aspect that the other commenter mentioned, I would also say that the tires that are on the Lambo would be far and away grippier than the ones on the Buick.
The Lambo also weighs around 500 lbs more.
And finally, the Lambo would have a lot more power and torque. Unless the Buick had aftermarket improvements.
Looks pretty fake for the reasons you just mentioned, but also the dude in the white shirt above the yellow car towards the finish line is missing a foot that magically appears when he celebrates. Definitely ai.
While this is AI. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was real. Car enthusiasts already spend a metric fuck ton on their cars and a contest like this sounds right up their alley.
In the first frame to the left of the crowd there's a guy taking pictures, the second guy to his left casually gains an extra leg. Also, I've seen people doing this twice and in one of those times a Subaru lost it's rear window glass.
Ive seen tug of war, car edition before. The line was longer and they started with line being already stretched to its max. Also it was on car show, using their cars (enforced frames?).
The strap is getting shorter, on another similar video I saw the strap went tight before the cars started moving, AI doesn't understand the way the strap works
Yes, totally AI. there’s no way people in the background behave like this. People are usually doing random shit, some on phones, others bored, and some are into it. Also, there’s no one just walking randomly or just straight up doing weird shit. I kind of find real life more endearing.
The strap gets shorter as the video goes on, along with it being tied to the license plate of the muscle car and what looks to be off centered on the Lambo?
Multiple people in the background have problems with limbs, not to mention they are all repetitive in their cheers. It’s clearly too many people for AI to focus on.
Physics of the cars makes zero sense none if this would work.
You could almost believe the car with the metal bumper could take that kind of a hit, but there’s no way that a modern car doesn’t have its whole rear end ripped off doing that. Fake.
100% AI BS. That bumper would never survive the First pull. And the wheels of the lambo dont even Turn at First.......why the fuck am i explaining IT. You all know already.
The cara stop spinning their wheels at like the exact same moment. No way that would happen during something like this let alone what everyone else said about the crowd.
It looks like the distance between the car changes over the course of the video, which doesn't make much sense, they should always be apart by the length of the rope
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