Mercedes SLS AMG driving upside down through mountain tunnel

[Arthurb06]

I don't get why they chose a car its clearly not possible with...

[MrEvilLunchBox]

This CAN be done but not with that car.

[legojedi626]

Shut up, Seibertt10! I saw that in auto shop. The exact same class that I made my video for. I wish I could do that in my Neon. That was awesome

[Seibertt10]

i could do that on my mountain bike......im not impressed

[2003Smalls]

I want to see a commercial like this in America. That would get this country excited.

[ShopSongs]

this looks very graphically enhanced , but yeah this is something to go over to the mythbusters site and spam about cuz i really wanna see them bust this :-)

[7xXAfflictionXx7]

Wow it took me a minute to realize I wasn't watching a car commercial lol

[MrLeniwiec102]

yeah mythbysters

[jimakosgian26]

the most impoprtant problem here would be to make an engine that would work upside down! trust me it is very difficult to achive

[Mysticalice]

@jimakosgian26 with direct port injection i dont' think it would be too hard. the fuel is sprayed into the combustion chamber, there's no gravity needed anymore. probably the biggest issue would be the lubrication system, and a dry sump oil system would solve that!

[xxRAMMSTEINxFANxx]

I want to see this really happen the car would have to have great areodynamics and speed

[migd012]

de ley es falso se necesita mas velocidad pa hacer eso culiados

[KRewind]

It would have to be going twice that speed and have some fucking amazing traction for the retard below who mentioned a spoiler what you need a spoiler to help the gravitational pull.. you don't need gravitational pull when going upside down twat.

[fuzevids]

@KRewind You might just be mentally retarded...but I'm here to help (: When you would be driving upside down there would be gravitational pull. Back to elementary....gravity pulls you down right? So you would need a spoiler to WORK AGAINST the gravitational pull. A spoiler creates what's called a "down force". Imagine an airplane wing, but upside down. It keeps the car pushed against the ground (in this case the tunnel) so it has more traction without having to add a lot of weight to the car.

[KRewind]

@fuzevids i work for mercedes high performance engines so suck my balls

[fuzevids]

@KRewind and you're bragging? you must sit behind a desk and answer calls or some shit. get outta here. you just got put in your place and now you're making yourself look worse

[fuzevids]

@KRewind Think twice before calling someone a retard and a twat and making yourself look like the dumbass you are. :p

[clinemichael]

Mrdude240 hahah yus

[supahduude]

difficult but very possible, in this clip the car uses only a little aerodinamics and a lot of centrifugal force, f1 car are in fact able to drive upside down, and not spin around the tunnel like in this vid but they can atually drive upside down in a straight line for as long as thay have gas to fuel the car. the trick is mainly going fast enough, having an extremely light car, and have spoilers and such to in normal driving at least double the car's weight



[supahduude]

@supahduude one time it's weight being the normal weight of the car, and the second time its weight to, when upside down nullify the effects of the gravity pulling the car down to basically ''float'' ofcourse you'll want traction and such so need at least enough downward force to multiply the downward g's by about 2.6 times

[JokerV77]

sorry to busted people bubbles but its real this is the third test they try it with

[mrdude240]

sex

[msnpapske]

@msnpapske oops with such a car I mean F1 cars. not heavy cars like the one in this vid.

[supdenfoosukka]

Bullshit

[Ahya728]

the whole presentation was so badass

[QQTrick1QQ]

Not sure on the SLS but Indy cars create so much suction they could drive upside down.

[JerryTurner29]

It's time for the Mythbusters! 

[riff1221]

SLS is <3

[cliquehop]

How very dramatic.

[Mr123camaroz28]

its possible, but maybe not with a car this heavy. then again........it is german engineered.

[nilliz85]

as it is only for a fraction of a second as it is upside down i find this belivable

its like spinning a bucket of water without the water running out...

i doubt that it could ''drive'' upside down though

[mramo]

of course its not a real move! Jeremy Clarkson's upside move was far more real than this German advert. Lot of stupid teenagers on here who aint gotta clue at all.

[msnpapske]

@mramo jeremy only drove 36 mph which isnt enough even for a F1 car, he used G-powers for his stunt like swining a bucket of water in a circle without the water fallingout. Faster, more aerodynamic cars use negative lift to 'push' the car into the driving surface.

[Arthurb06]

@mramo Hey man. I'm a teenager, but just not as retarded as the rest

[S4L4DS]

it is possible. i dont know if this movie is real or not, but doing such a thing is in fact possible.

because of the shape of race cars, "negative lift", or a force due to the passing air, is exerted downward on the car, holding it to the track in turns etc. If such car went 90 meters/s, the "negative lift" generated by air pressure against the roof of the car equals/outdoes the gravitational force - if it was upside down at this speed, this air pressure could pin it to the ceiling. 

[cliquehop]

@S4L4DS Unfortunately, you do not take into account the speed of the vehicle and the speed at which air forces change based on vector of the moving object. Downforce does not change the application of direction based on orientation of the body in motion. That is to say, the application of the "negative lift" concept only applies to a vehicle or object with a consistent vector of travel.

[knightcup]

@cliquehop i wish i could think like that. was that in texts and tests 3?

[jcadlols]

@cliquehop also, the car has to keep traction upside down, so the vertical force must be substantially in excess of the car's weight. The circular motion of the car would help the traction, however i think the car would probably spin.

[cliquehop]

@S4L4DS In this case, I believe that due to the change in orientation combined with the change in directional wind force would spin the car out before it was even perpendicular to the road surface.

[msnpapske]

@S4L4DS actually such a car is very light and has ALOT of negative lift thanks to all the spoilers and the shape of the vehicle and will be able to achieve driving upside down at, let's make a safe bet here: 40 m/s, which is about 144 kph

[ChronicEye]

it would have been a nasty accident if he failed

[callumchandler]

i love how no-one disliked this video

[StopMotionMind]

A formula 1 car can drive upside down.

I doubt this can

[neogenzim1995]

is this for real?

[asdcustomgraphics]

so was the driver in the car the whole time the car was in the truck? the gull wings would make it hard to get in otherwise.

[Istoderescu1]

lol he keeps driving the sls home ** "eii kids look what i got"

[Chiefatarms]

Its nothing. The thing keeping it on the ceiling is computer generated effects. If you think about simple physics, and know exactly how g-forces work, then you would know that there wouldn't be any possible way to create the g-forces needed in a straight tunnel. Its exactly like the hot wheels set you had when you were a kid. Its all common sense.

[Chiefatarms]

@Chiefatarms The reference to the hot wheels was simply that loops in hot wheels sets have negative camber in the loops and rolls on the track. it is the momentum being carried into the negative camber of the track that generates "G"s (g-forces). You need to maintain a positive amount of "G"s to stay up side down on an inverted track. You can't maintain positive "G"s on a track with a neutral camber. So therefore the stunt in this level tunnel is impossible.

[NoahLDiamond]

Is it the down-force or Gs?

[royev2il]

@NoahLDiamond Both

[sirukinx]

@NoahLDiamond It's momentum. The "G" force(s) is/are pulling the car towards the wall into the turn.