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I heard they have snow in Portland at the moment and apparently that's not something that happens often, so I found this video at youtube ... its from last year though, but wow, that looks very slippery!!
*heads up!*
Have you any of you guys (or girls) ever been into something similar?
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i have a big imagination even tried to meditate to make it appear but ...no way
video missed !
edit: my bad, internetoptions
just lmao!
once i got surprised by snow. it was very very slippery and i wasnt able to drive 10k/mh, as soon i hit a bit the gas i skiied around. but not like in the video, this one in the video is just hilarious
2nd edit: i wonder if you guys know the "starwars kid" ? very old video (maybe 6 or more years old) but fun as hell. i still have it saved on my harddrive to share with people who dont know it. so if you dont know it just say so and i upload it you have to be starwars fan tho
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I don`t know how is this possible, people are walking normally along the road so ice is not that slippery, i`m guessing its automated gearboxes and people who don`t have a clue how to drive on uncleared snow covered roads. That last one started to accelerate when he was passing by parked car just across the camera and had hard time finding out that Colin McRae rally game is just that, the game. LOL funny.
addition: I looked at the first corner, on the left of the camera and it seems to be some hill, bushes are not all of the same height, so road elevation might influence this behavior.
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Predo, Yes there does some to be some elevation, specially the road going vertical in the video, the one the 4x4 (first one) is sliding backwards on until it finally stops into 3-4 cars.
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People are def. clueless when it comes to driving in slippery weather but nothing to do here when the car can't even grip when turned sideways doesn't matter how good you are or you got 4x4. Check out the guy getting noia at 1:38 turns into another crashed car in purpose using it as brakes Btw. I enjoy seeing the BMW no probs nice and easy only car not crashing, car or driver....probably both Just kidding probably the one who could afford a proper set of winter tires, perhaps spikes
------------ ROFL starwars kid what a psycho....how the F did the sliding cars remind you of him
i know its not related to cars. whenever i watch funny videos it always reminds me on starwars kid. just cant get this kid out of my mind...its like a tattoo in my brain
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I like the red car at 0:42 ... he manages to get it to a full stop, but for some reason decides to try again or something and then ends up hitting the other car!!
teddy's 2nd link works for me now .. that kid really is crazy
m3, when the 1st snow is falling in DK are you going to take the bmw out for some drifing?
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Posted by Administrator:
m3, when the 1st snow is falling in DK are you going to take the bmw out for some drifing?
Yes ofcourse I allways do , learned by old pops that when they say in TV news/radio that it's adviced to stay of the roads due to dangerous slippery roads ~ it meens time to play you got road all to your self I only drive rear wheel or 4x4 driven cars. Front wheel driven cars should be illegal by law imo and french cars should be declined at their own border keep your own baguettes we don't want those tin can killer machines driving around or exploding in peoples garage(C series). Love baguettes just not with wheels Sadly the danish government spend tons of money destroying my slippery surface, road, groundwater and my dogs feet. Try gravel fools, but they rather destroy everything with their stupid never ending salt salt salt so stupid it's ment to put on the food where you can't get enough of it
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So true, M3....kinda, at least Just have to find a good wide open spot to play around on... don't wanna end up in the ditch somewhere because it slips a bit more on the road than planned
Let's just hope there's going to be some snow during the christmas vacation
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Yeah could be fun do you also got a car in germany or planning on punishing the parrents car My dad got a Jeep Grand Cherokee (V8 ) 0-160 side by side with 325i std, pretty quick for a 2ton car imo, think Cw catches him at 160. Love driving that car when snowy though it sometimes allmost grips to well, hate fueling it though Ditch is your friend, makes sure you don't F up
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I have a RWD parked away at my grandparents that I work on when on vacation and such (which is very rare though, but fingers are just too itchy when it comes to tinkering, a car to work on is a must ). So gonna take that one out for a spin
