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  • Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2008
  • The Top Gear team wonder what it would be like if you were struck by lightning while in your car. Richard Hammond finds out! Don't forget to click beneath the video to view in high quality, and visit www.topgear.com for all the latest news, sneak peeks, exclusives and car reviews.
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  • @irishtrains1396
    @irishtrains1396 3 года назад +4907

    "German military scientists test new electric super weapon on a captured British spy, 1942 colorized"

    • @HA-rl4fz
      @HA-rl4fz 3 года назад +45

      Concept for a new hollywood movie

    • @glipk
      @glipk 3 года назад +7

      Lmaoo

    • @hugo2762
      @hugo2762 3 года назад +48

      tonight: richard infiltrates a german submarine base.

    • @Peacemaker-96
      @Peacemaker-96 3 года назад +4

      Circa*

    • @ddeanb784
      @ddeanb784 3 года назад +5

      U.K USA steals everything from Europe

  • @Stryke607
    @Stryke607 8 лет назад +7762

    They really found the most stereotypical looking and most heavily accented speaking german there is ... :D

    • @lungshenli
      @lungshenli 7 лет назад +494

      I'm german and that dude looks like a stereotypical german worker in his 40s to me

    • @Leo1239150
      @Leo1239150 7 лет назад +188

      yeah I don't think that kinda guy would be hard to find, especially when looking at technology professionals. (I'm German too)

    • @SighNaps
      @SighNaps 7 лет назад +42

      Exactly what qualities did you find to be stereo typically German of his? (Genuine question, no baiting intended)

    • @owentdsthediamondswordmine390
      @owentdsthediamondswordmine390 7 лет назад +2

      Stryke hi

    • @danmurphy4287
      @danmurphy4287 7 лет назад +198

      ze accent, ze fact zat he ist ein scientist, ze moustache, ze nasal whiney-ness to his woice, lots of stereotypes at play with that guy

  • @karanabraham7906
    @karanabraham7906 3 года назад +911

    The tension was killing me. Wasn't sure if he'd survive to present another 13 years

    • @DreamBelief
      @DreamBelief 2 года назад +10

      They are protected. There's no need to worry. Most is faked, and they commonly use stunt people. This has been openly admitted

    • @shadowl3y665
      @shadowl3y665 2 года назад +46

      @@DreamBelief
      Karan Abraham was joking, as this video is almost 13 years old and thus it was obvious, that nothing would happen to Hammond. Otherwise he hadn't been able to continue producing Top Gear and later The Grand Tour.

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 2 года назад +1

      He's safe because the juice they were zapping him with was 1 dimensional.
      No current was flowing, only had voltage 🙄🤣

    • @ryansmuda6753
      @ryansmuda6753 2 года назад

      You can tell it’s a stuntman if you look at “Hammond’s” hair through the windshield

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 2 года назад

      @@DreamBelief When stupid gets more thumbs up than intellect... Hope is all but totally lost... Help us

  • @Andy-hi3yt
    @Andy-hi3yt 2 года назад +419

    I was driving during a crazy storm a few years ago. My car was hit with lighting. I remember the radio went from normal to static for a few seconds before turning off on its own. My car shook on impact and every window of my car was shining bright white light like the whitest light I’ve ever seen.

    • @clockwork9827
      @clockwork9827 2 года назад +30

      the Rapture

    • @chinmayrevant8750
      @chinmayrevant8750 2 года назад +27

      You must've felt heaven

    • @024_umeshkumar3
      @024_umeshkumar3 2 года назад +30

      So are you alive now?

    • @MrDeltoric
      @MrDeltoric 2 года назад +14

      woah did you live?

    • @poop.9654
      @poop.9654 2 года назад +1

      i had similar thing happen was like 5 but i live though did get very tired afterwards and went to sleep i assume didnt wake up since when i next woke up i was on my bed looked pretty nice though hurt my eyes alot

  • @ProtonFilms_Mark
    @ProtonFilms_Mark 13 лет назад +1955

    MEANWHILE
    *translate from german*
    "That didn't kill him! Zap him again!"

    • @don6160
      @don6160 3 года назад +1

      @Rex Rodgers haha

    • @drifzyy
      @drifzyy 3 года назад +1

      old

    • @michamy6977
      @michamy6977 3 года назад +2

      Helmut uses cyclon B. It used to work in the past.

    • @felixbeutin9530
      @felixbeutin9530 3 года назад +8

      Verdammt er ist nicht tot wiederholen sie den Versuch

    • @michamy6977
      @michamy6977 3 года назад

      @@felixbeutin9530 co do chuja?

  • @moriarteaa4692
    @moriarteaa4692 5 лет назад +6579

    Top Gear producer to the guy who works at Siemens:
    "Wow your English is really good, but we really need you to talk like an evil Nazi Scientist for the role"

    • @bukanmatin5973
      @bukanmatin5973 4 года назад +46

      Yep

    • @astrobot3000
      @astrobot3000 4 года назад +133

      thats only a german accent combined with english language

    • @thomaslohr2864
      @thomaslohr2864 4 года назад +151

      I think they casted the most German technician available

    • @yammmit
      @yammmit 3 года назад +2

      Thomas Lohr cast*

    • @Dgeigerd
      @Dgeigerd 3 года назад +43

      das ist halt so wenn man deutsch und englisch vermischt. forhandertsausend volts

  • @Me-wk7dz
    @Me-wk7dz 2 года назад +356

    I was in a car struck by lightning. The windows went opaque-solid-white and time slowed down and there was a super loud POP sound. Immediately after it was silent and I remember knocking on the window to make sure I wasn't deaf (thankfully I heard the knock). The engine was fried, which totaled the car, and the tires popped.
    Edit): To clarify, the windows went opaque because it was so bright you couldn't see out of them. I did not mean the lightning chemically changed the windows to be opaque.

    • @SurrealCereal
      @SurrealCereal 2 года назад +19

      Wow, sounds nuts. What's the backstory?

    • @evanh.6097
      @evanh.6097 2 года назад +78

      From what I’ve found, the lightning in this demonstration is nowhere near as powerful as a real strike. Obviously it wouldn’t have been safe to do this test with hundreds of millions of volts, and while I’m sure a car would protect you, it seems like it would destroy a car

    • @Me-wk7dz
      @Me-wk7dz 2 года назад +32

      @@evanh.6097 In my case the car physically looked fine other than the popped tires. The engine damage would take a mechanic to notice, visually you couldn't notice anything else

    • @dieabsolutegluckskuche5174
      @dieabsolutegluckskuche5174 2 года назад +7

      Oh, normally tires don't pop and it's not so extremely loud so you got hit by a lightning from higher altitudes. They are a lot of times worse than a normal lighting, but they hit rarely the ground.

    • @Me-wk7dz
      @Me-wk7dz 2 года назад +22

      @@dieabsolutegluckskuche5174 I think it was loud because it was a combo of point-blank lightning and 4 tires popping all at the same time around you

  • @MaximoSirianidelCarril
    @MaximoSirianidelCarril 3 года назад +634

    That confirms my Dad's theory that staying in a car douring a thunder storm is the safest place (he is an electric engineer)

    • @lukechamberlain7531
      @lukechamberlain7531 2 года назад +49

      I feel like most people should already know that tho lol

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 2 года назад +35

      Most cars. I think the fad of making plastic bodies has mostly passed... except for Corvettes. Those offer no protection from lightning.

    • @JamaicanCastle
      @JamaicanCastle 2 года назад +12

      @@flagmichael Well what else are you going to do, run out into the rain?

    • @rounak471
      @rounak471 2 года назад +1

      @@lukechamberlain7531 is it true ??

    • @benji0027
      @benji0027 2 года назад +37

      The reason this works is because the electrons are all negatively charged so they they try to push away from each other. When they do this they’re forced to run along the outside of whatever material is conducting them. This means that whatever’s inside is perfectly safe. If you’re curious about this just look up faraday cage.

  • @FastCarsNoRules220
    @FastCarsNoRules220 8 лет назад +936

    If he was in a DeLorean, he would have gone back to the future.

    • @HerecomestheCalavera
      @HerecomestheCalavera 7 лет назад +25

      Possibly or he could have ended up in 1885!

    • @dankerthanclanker
      @dankerthanclanker 7 лет назад +4

      If he was in a DeLorean he'd have been staying there. Those things sucked. :^)

    • @FastCarsNoRules220
      @FastCarsNoRules220 7 лет назад +13

      dankerthanclanker Just need to upgrade them with a Porsche engine. That's basically what they did when they filmed the movie.

    • @dankerthanclanker
      @dankerthanclanker 7 лет назад +6

      And that speaks volumes about a car when it becomes a meme.

    • @BeowulfNorther
      @BeowulfNorther 7 лет назад +5

      dankerthanclanker the main potential of the delorians were they were stainless steel, well made parts and were quality over quantity.. good parts and long lasting, it would have set a trend. that's why the main car companies had him busted for coke because they want quantity over quality and shit parts

  • @NewHopeShit
    @NewHopeShit 10 лет назад +14575

    try in a convertible

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert 5 лет назад +585

      All that would be left of Hammond would be a smoldering skeleton.

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 5 лет назад +78

      @Zinan Watts Crazy German Scientist

    • @jaymesnin
      @jaymesnin 5 лет назад +187

      Yes! An with 90,000,000 volts like a real lightning strike not 800,000.

    • @bukanmatin5973
      @bukanmatin5973 4 года назад +45

      @@twistedyogert Hammond have done mad things before he crashes a lot.

    • @cartunerph4827
      @cartunerph4827 4 года назад +17

      NewHopeShit it would be the rimac crash all over again

  • @Calcearius
    @Calcearius 2 года назад +52

    He said "Keep your hands together close to the centre of the car"
    Next scene; Richard pointing out the window towards the buzzing

  • @joshuayuki7101
    @joshuayuki7101 3 года назад +409

    "What happens when you get hit by lighting ... in a car"
    Duh everyone knows, it's common knowledge... you get sent back to 1885 and hijack a steam locomotive

    • @Coiote_23
      @Coiote_23 2 года назад +12

      The locomotive needs to reach 80km/h aswell.

    • @jakalahajnar5422
      @jakalahajnar5422 2 года назад +19

      @@Coiote_23 Actually in the film was 88MPH that's around 140km/h

    • @Coiote_23
      @Coiote_23 2 года назад +8

      @@jakalahajnar5422 Oh my bad. xD

    • @denisemayosky1955
      @denisemayosky1955 2 года назад +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @TheAtmosfear7
    @TheAtmosfear7 9 лет назад +1948

    Radio turned on, 'FRITZ' shows up. Typical Top Gear humor right here xD

    • @TheAtmosfear7
      @TheAtmosfear7 8 лет назад +27

      LCdrDerrick Hold up cause I'm kinda confused now, I actually happen to live in Germany, did you mean we really do have these channels ? :D

    • @mopetteost1719
      @mopetteost1719 8 лет назад +72

      +TheAtmosfear7 Fritz is the name of a german radio station.

    • @alexandru5302
      @alexandru5302 8 лет назад +146

      +TheAtmosfear7 FRITZ its what brittish troops used to call german troops in the WW2..just the same as german troops used to call allied forces "Tommy"..

    • @Alex_4rex
      @Alex_4rex 8 лет назад +37

      +TheAtmosfear7 Yes Fritz is a radio here in Berlin

    • @TheMoonRover
      @TheMoonRover 4 года назад +34

      In case anyone missed the English meaning, something which is not working correctly is said to be "on the fritz"

  • @JCDavis314
    @JCDavis314 10 лет назад +3449

    I can imagine Clarkson's reaction had he been in the Golf.
    "A LITTLE POO'S COME OUT!"

    • @alisonmorgan1850
      @alisonmorgan1850 5 лет назад +93

      And with James May
      * OH CO** *

    • @bukanmatin5973
      @bukanmatin5973 4 года назад +20

      @Gappie Al Kebabi The typical Clarkson's quote, haha

    • @RDCST
      @RDCST 4 года назад +7

      Well, at least is wearing his brown pants.

    • @yammmit
      @yammmit 3 года назад +5

      Gappie Al Kebabi nothing wrong with homosexuality

    • @abbasiautomotive
      @abbasiautomotive 3 года назад +3

      * A LIGHTNING POO'S COMING OUT*

  • @brisingr2868
    @brisingr2868 3 года назад +27

    Alternate Earth: *After the experiment*
    Him :"I'm Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive."

  • @mrmileskp
    @mrmileskp 3 года назад +19

    "Hes starting to raise the woltage"

  • @lifethrownoutofthewindow
    @lifethrownoutofthewindow 3 года назад +4956

    tesla: 100% charged in 1 second

  • @sebasaiello
    @sebasaiello 10 лет назад +3514

    Error light on a VW is always on, that doesn't count.

    • @gavincurtis
      @gavincurtis 9 лет назад +153

      Starting one (VW) without one (error lamp) is like winning the lottery.

    • @bontragerjones
      @bontragerjones 9 лет назад +119

      Gavin Curtis No it isn't.
      Your chances of winning the Lotto is far better than a VW not starting with an error light.

    • @Jackomac43
      @Jackomac43 9 лет назад +1

      What Vw models are these?

    • @LiamS94
      @LiamS94 9 лет назад +43

      Clearly our Volkswagens in Europe are built to a much higher standard then because they are known for being extremely reliable here. My family have had two Golfs, one being a lease car with high mileage, and they've never had an issue

    • @adysoferu
      @adysoferu 8 лет назад +7

      sebasaiello It is not true in every case, I have a diesel Passat and in 3 years time I never saw an error light and I want to mentio that my car is 13 years old and has lots of km. But it depends, I have lots of friends with petrol powered Golf s and they have lots of problems with this errors

  • @nono-gb1lg
    @nono-gb1lg 2 года назад +7

    We got struck about 6 months after this video posted in a 2003 GMC Yukon XL Denali. I'd thought my gun had gone off it was so loud.
    We were fine. Engine electronics were fine, but most all ancillary electronics were toast. We were in the middle of an eight hour drive, and after the storm it got hot out. No A/C, couldn't roll down the windows, no radio, gauges were acting wildly.
    Insurance (U.S.) had all electronics replaced instead of totaling it... and we still have it. Also needed 4 new tires (assume the steel belts heated up/expanded causing leaks on all four.
    The car in the video appeared to be grounded, probably saving the vehicle from damage.

    • @CrenshawConnection
      @CrenshawConnection 2 года назад +3

      Creepy. Glad you made it.

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 2 года назад +1

      The tires have a proportion of carbon to leak off static and IIRC it does something good for the rubber. I would not trust the tires after that, either.

  • @theprofessionalpleb7094
    @theprofessionalpleb7094 3 года назад +23

    I think the guy at the controls would make a perfect super villain. He has the fake-pity-quiet-voice down to a science lol

  • @D-Man_Jam
    @D-Man_Jam 3 года назад +209

    3:10 _"ᶠᵒᵘʳʰᵘⁿᵈᵉᵈ ˢᵒᵘˢᵃⁿᵈ ᵛᵒᵃᵗ"_

  • @elijahtill7734
    @elijahtill7734 8 лет назад +3904

    More like Voltswagen! HAHAHAHAHAH!!!

    • @endroo93
      @endroo93 8 лет назад +16

      +Elijah Till You're supposed to pronounce it Folkswagen, so that's that.

    • @Horsesgamer
      @Horsesgamer 8 лет назад +114

      +Endroo and there someone didnt get the joke

    • @endroo93
      @endroo93 8 лет назад +16

      Horsesgamer Bollocks. I undestand that the guy tried to be funny but the language barrier makes it difficult. Only the ignorant or the non-german speakers laugh at that "joke".

    • @Horsesgamer
      @Horsesgamer 8 лет назад +63

      +Endroo well I'm German and did get the Joke

    • @endroo93
      @endroo93 8 лет назад +3

      Horsesgamer Good for you.

  • @Jayson619
    @Jayson619 2 года назад +5

    Miss those guys. Top Gear needs them more than ever.

  • @generatorzabawy9156
    @generatorzabawy9156 3 года назад +79

    tonight on bottom gear
    Hammond gets beaten to death by group of preschoolers

    • @Unix_0
      @Unix_0 3 года назад +9

      CARLKSON I TOLT YUO NOT TO CHARGH MA CAR

    • @ggburnitup4055
      @ggburnitup4055 2 года назад

      May 360s a miata

  • @Ervin2v
    @Ervin2v 5 лет назад +1398

    six hondred soazend voltz

    • @safetyinstructor
      @safetyinstructor 5 лет назад +50

      ... it's stupid bavarian and swabian accent (people in northern Germany don't have this bad accent) I'm German and even in my ears it really hurts...

    • @robinpzabel
      @robinpzabel 3 года назад +30

      @@safetyinstructor Die sagen extra das sie in Berlin sind. Das war ein Berliner. Kein Bayer oder Schwabe

    • @tfs.max247
      @tfs.max247 3 года назад +9

      @@safetyinstructor lost

    • @gitman3486
      @gitman3486 3 года назад +10

      *woltz

    • @dootanimations1687
      @dootanimations1687 2 года назад +18

      *nein hondred soazend woltz*

  • @achimhanischdorfer3403
    @achimhanischdorfer3403 10 лет назад +2706

    "only one country is liberal enough to actually let me sit in the car."
    I suspected him to say "Holland".
    He didn't.

    • @CyL3Nz
      @CyL3Nz 9 лет назад +159

      Well mr. smart guy, thats supposed to be the joke.

    • @achimhanischdorfer3403
      @achimhanischdorfer3403 9 лет назад +61

      Mr. Smart Guy the Second:
      That is the point of my comment...

    • @davidtakius
      @davidtakius 9 лет назад +2

      AHA! why would I stop him from killing himself

    • @achimhanischdorfer3403
      @achimhanischdorfer3403 9 лет назад +5

      Cause this is supposed to be not rated m or above 16 or something.

    • @tijmen131
      @tijmen131 7 лет назад +52

      to be fair Germany is way more liberal and free then The Netherlands, when he said fun enough I thought Netherlands but when he said all the other stuff I was sure it was going to be Germany. Nobody would even dare to think of that in The Netherlands cause it would be ''not safe''

  • @aksharma4393
    @aksharma4393 Год назад +6

    Salute to Richard for taking Such Huge Risk for the ,
    Humanity.

  • @joannabanana2880
    @joannabanana2880 2 года назад +28

    When I was in a car struck by lightning, everyone was ok, but the car wasn’t as lucky. I was with my mom and my little brother. The electrical was all messed up, the glass in the sun roof was broken (I think that is where the lightning struck), there were holes in the metal body of the car where metal melted. I think that the lightning did that much damage because not only were we struck by lightning, a power line went down right in front of our car. My theory is that the lightning struck the power line, and then bounced off onto us. I think either it was very strong lightning or the power line charged it up so that there was more electricity. Enough to melt the metal. The car was totaled, but we were fine.

    • @STARIZZY458
      @STARIZZY458 Год назад

      Did the windows go white

    • @QF_Dan72
      @QF_Dan72 5 месяцев назад

      Did you fix the car?

    • @joannabanana2880
      @joannabanana2880 5 месяцев назад

      @@QF_Dan72 no the car was totaled

    • @joannabanana2880
      @joannabanana2880 5 месяцев назад

      @@STARIZZY458 yes when the lightning struck

  • @blueburaq
    @blueburaq 3 года назад +91

    I didn’t catch this 11 years ago but Hammond said “He’s starting to raise the Woltage”
    Nice one. Very subtle

  • @garfellow5038
    @garfellow5038 7 лет назад +624

    "He's raising the woltage"... Just imagine Chris Evans saying that, it doesn't work...

  • @svdagoat7972
    @svdagoat7972 2 года назад +7

    “My hands are buzzing” guy proceeds to turn up lightning 🤣🤣

  • @tsmeman63
    @tsmeman63 2 года назад +3

    Building up that tension was terrifying! You’re a hero, Hammond!

  • @CutePuppy351
    @CutePuppy351 4 года назад +201

    Bringing a whole new meaning to "electric car."

  • @officialsked
    @officialsked 9 лет назад +415

    i wish topgear had done this sort of thing in their newer series.

    • @cpufreak101
      @cpufreak101 9 лет назад +26

      ***** oh wow, your name tho...

    • @Ascendance2001
      @Ascendance2001 8 лет назад +24

      man the stig realy does have a lot of cousins

    • @bonescripter
      @bonescripter 8 лет назад +2

      +The Stigs Youtubing Cousin Why does it have to be new? Its like how they remake perfectly good songs. Since it is new doesn't mean it makes it better!

    • @branflakes2600
      @branflakes2600 7 лет назад +2

      +Aeris Exitus like Miley Cyrus?

    • @amvj
      @amvj 7 лет назад +18

      It would be great if Top Gear can tie Chris Evans and put him in a open top convertible and do this test. He is f******** annoying.

  • @ctm9364
    @ctm9364 2 года назад +4

    1:00 '"This is the siemens high voltage lab....

  • @RealVectorSpeedrunner
    @RealVectorSpeedrunner 3 года назад +10

    *Me gets struck by lightning in a car*
    Me: Oh no,any ways

  • @pklongutoobe
    @pklongutoobe 3 года назад +188

    They really were tempting fate having Hammond do this.

    • @terminator3000
      @terminator3000 2 года назад +7

      Actually it has been known for decades that this is safe.

    • @pklongutoobe
      @pklongutoobe 2 года назад +4

      @@terminator3000 Hammond could put himself in hospital with the sparks off a wolly jumper

    • @theyellowlightsaber3193
      @theyellowlightsaber3193 2 года назад

      You mean Hammond was tempting fate, and he's tempted it repeatedly and nearly died more than once cos of it.

    • @ProjectEurobeat
      @ProjectEurobeat 2 года назад

      Plot twist: It was all Clarkson's idea...

    • @dbclass4075
      @dbclass4075 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@terminator3000It's more on the issue of Hammond's proclivity of crashing.

  • @tylerjeffreybrown7420
    @tylerjeffreybrown7420 8 лет назад +130

    Energy capacity 400% .... "How bout that"

  • @cerealboiz
    @cerealboiz 3 года назад +6

    Just watched this in my science lesson. Saved us from doing more work. Thanks too gear!

  • @XavierBetoN
    @XavierBetoN 2 года назад +2

    I started electrical engineering when this video was aired and didn't know about the concept of Faraday cages. Very educational. Viva la Grand Tour!

    • @nathanstroud2223
      @nathanstroud2223 2 года назад +2

      I introduced this clip to my physics teacher when I was in high school, and she bookmarked it to show to future classes.

  • @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557
    @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557 8 лет назад +343

    hamster said "he started to raise the woltage".... hahahahaha!!!!

  • @raptorducttape3942
    @raptorducttape3942 8 лет назад +220

    Heheh...The car radio is on the Fritz.

    • @majorborngusfluunduch8694
      @majorborngusfluunduch8694 8 лет назад +3

      Didnt even think of that. I thought it was a WWII joke.

    • @Geographus666
      @Geographus666 8 лет назад +5

      +John Doe It's the name of a radio station in Berlin.

    • @HURRIEDHARRY
      @HURRIEDHARRY 7 лет назад +4

      Fritz is a nickname of a german soldier (as well as a radio station)

    • @GerardKean
      @GerardKean 5 лет назад +1

      I was scanning the comments to see if it was real or a joke

    • @dma968
      @dma968 3 года назад

      "Ze radio iz on ze fritz"

  • @jd3076
    @jd3076 3 года назад +1

    Gotta respect hammond he was always the bravest of the 3 doing this risky challenges

  • @samirehman2603
    @samirehman2603 3 года назад +13

    Who else did not search for this but is glad that its recommended

  • @DylanMcMullen
    @DylanMcMullen 8 лет назад +132

    Mum, the radio's on the fritz!

    • @a.s.5262
      @a.s.5262 7 лет назад +1

      It's actually an independent government founded youth oriented radio station

    • @safetyinstructor
      @safetyinstructor 5 лет назад +3

      A lot of people around Berlin hear radio Fritz... it isn't that bad

  • @TheZyzxx
    @TheZyzxx 8 лет назад +341

    zuhunderzausan volt

  • @Its.iyanamarie
    @Its.iyanamarie 2 года назад +8

    This man really put his life on the line 😭.

    • @beaverIAB
      @beaverIAB 2 года назад

      He's done that multiple times for TG/TGT, both on purpose and not.

  • @QF_Dan72
    @QF_Dan72 5 месяцев назад

    This really send shivers down my back. Imagine being a car and surrounded by high voltage currents, not sure if you are safe or not. Glad they did this to ensure the safety.

  • @sk88boarding
    @sk88boarding 9 лет назад +2229

    400 saozand vlotz

    • @chaytonruijsenaars3971
      @chaytonruijsenaars3971 8 лет назад +1

      +sk88boarding
      lol i know right

    • @Donatas996
      @Donatas996 8 лет назад

      +sk88boarding :D

    • @Rear_Admiral522
      @Rear_Admiral522 8 лет назад +58

      +sk88boarding I am German and it even hurt my ears. He was a bad example, but it sounds better usually.

    • @Kitten41
      @Kitten41 6 лет назад +6

      Verrückter Wissenschaftler it sounds betterer

    • @vincents187
      @vincents187 6 лет назад +14

      Over neinzausend voltz

  • @yusriabbas8430
    @yusriabbas8430 4 года назад +137

    It works as a VW ad: “the lightning proof car”.

  • @yulilestariknappdaily5382
    @yulilestariknappdaily5382 2 года назад +4

    My husband loves watching you show, it ease him after his Drawing in CAT and CAD or a hard day at the jobs with his cup of coffee and pillow then I be wake up to turn the lid down at 3am. Reminded me Sir Richie falling into Bowling line 😌

  • @TheOmegaDragon
    @TheOmegaDragon Год назад +1

    There was a severe thunderstorm a few days ago where I lived. I was driving back home from work and was nervous I'd get struck by lightning. This video makes me less nervous knowing you can actually survive it by staying inside the car.

  • @WillShredForBread
    @WillShredForBread 9 лет назад +62

    wonder what it did to the paint

  • @traindriverdan
    @traindriverdan 4 года назад +25

    2:45 "He's starting to raise the woltage"

  • @Fahd_93
    @Fahd_93 3 года назад +5

    Hammond actively tries to get himself killed whenever the opportunity presents itself.

  • @GoranDubravic
    @GoranDubravic 2 года назад

    I’ve seen this video before when I was in Desert View High School during my physics class and it was so awesome!

  • @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557
    @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557 8 лет назад +53

    the radio station when he starts the car is Fritz...

    • @gennadyreshetnikov5948
      @gennadyreshetnikov5948 7 лет назад

      +Carl Coppens Is it a bad radio station?

    • @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557
      @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557 7 лет назад +6

      Gennady Reshetnikov i've never listened to it... but it's typical top gear humour: the car just got "fritzed" with by running millions of volts through it and when he turns on the car back on, the default radio station just happens to be "Fritz" (which is an actual radio station from Berlin). if english is not your first language, you might not know that "fritz" or "fritzed out" is slang for out of order, kind of like "fried" also means the same thing.

    • @gennadyreshetnikov5948
      @gennadyreshetnikov5948 7 лет назад +2

      Carl Coppens Thanks for explaining, english is indeed not my first language. I guess I've missed lots of small details like this one.

    • @mathiasschuller6639
      @mathiasschuller6639 5 лет назад +1

      But also it is just one of the most common radio stations here in Berlin, I would not surely say, that they planned this

    • @lizardlenny
      @lizardlenny 3 года назад

      @@mathiasschuller6639 Top Gear planned everything.

  • @jakkakasunset5485
    @jakkakasunset5485 3 года назад +77

    RUclips: No Mature Content
    Top Gear: *Richard getting lifted by air med*

  • @johnathannelson6195
    @johnathannelson6195 2 года назад +6

    2:53 I can with absolute certainty say that is the first time I've ever reacted to a pale , shapeless, comically accented, mustachioed German scientist with, "well, that was adorable.".
    He's like a soft-spoken Deutschland Winnie the Pooh.

  • @SunitaDevi-te7nn
    @SunitaDevi-te7nn 2 года назад

    He risked his life for showing this. Awesome

  • @fmcbh9490
    @fmcbh9490 8 лет назад +12

    3:39 hammond be like "i just shit my pants!!!"

  • @LightW
    @LightW 9 лет назад +15

    if you visit munich, germany you can do that yourself. in the "Deutsches Museum" they do a show i think once a week at 4pm and they have a randomly chosen person of the croud sit in a cage and hit it with a small lighting.
    and the best thing is, no extra costs! only thing u need is the regular museum ticket. :)

    • @gustialt
      @gustialt Год назад

      is it still possible?

  • @Thatguy-dr7tv
    @Thatguy-dr7tv 2 года назад +41

    "So we're you killed?" "Sadly yes... but I lived!"

  • @youssefserrat
    @youssefserrat 3 года назад +1

    The best VW commercial I've watched so far!

    • @patrikjansen7831
      @patrikjansen7831 2 года назад +1

      You clearly haven't watched any older vw commercials. They used to be amazing

    • @youssefserrat
      @youssefserrat 2 года назад

      @@patrikjansen7831 i know haha im just kidding, i love the old commercial for the mk3 golf tho

  • @eoinmaher455
    @eoinmaher455 7 лет назад +81

    We watched this in physics class :))

  • @bamboozledbob3298
    @bamboozledbob3298 8 лет назад +35

    looked like they attached a wire to the chassis so that the tires won't get destroyed.

  • @LordPhobos6502
    @LordPhobos6502 2 года назад +1

    Wasn't expecting the car to work afterwards!

  • @thepowerlies
    @thepowerlies 3 года назад +1

    "keep your hand together"
    points out where the buzz is

  • @jaymur001
    @jaymur001 10 лет назад +44

    Gaussian surface for the win. Q enclosed equals zerooooooooooo

    • @fuzzblightyear145
      @fuzzblightyear145 3 года назад +2

      damn. in 6 years only 21 ppl understood that

    • @jaymur001
      @jaymur001 3 года назад +5

      Graeme McT For the vast majority of people, it’s University level physics they will unfortunately never be exposed it, even if in practice it is useful knowledge.

  • @yusriabbas8430
    @yusriabbas8430 4 года назад +10

    I was expecting Arnold to show up naked and throw Richard out of that Golf singlehandedly saying: “I need your car”.

  • @captaindelta43
    @captaindelta43 Год назад +1

    Simple basics
    Lightning needs a conductor or something that needs to go down into the earth because that's it's final destination . Since its so powerful and hot it destroys that object ....but like Hammond explained the Faraday cage is something that your metal body car can do .....to protect you .. sure it may destroy your electronics but hey atleast your safe to realise or replace them .
    Fun fact :-. A Knight in shining body armour if metal does the exact same job

  • @gamingclips481
    @gamingclips481 3 года назад +4

    5:05 So were you killed to death then?
    (If you listen very closely you can even hear his genius)

  • @user-hi4sm3ig5j
    @user-hi4sm3ig5j 5 лет назад +7

    The music in this segment was so good. Wish I know how to find it on its own.

  • @crazy7997
    @crazy7997 8 лет назад +4

    They need to cut out 1:40 to 2:10 since they got the car grounded. They should of drove the car onto a steel plate and grounded the plate and not the car. Wish they could do this over and do it right. Would of been nice to see what path the electricity would of gone. Straight to ground or through all the bearing and if the tires are steel belted. Through the tires and to ground if the tires are steel belted. Then would the car bearings or something get hurt from the arcs of electricity? Or how about a car with a sun roof or soft top convertible?

  • @v1ncebuthungry672
    @v1ncebuthungry672 2 года назад +1

    He was so calm even though he literally could’ve died

  • @bobitin368
    @bobitin368 Год назад +2

    This happened to me yesterday, it banged like hell and the electronics of the car went crazy! I shut it down and restarted it and the car works as it did before! The lightning bolt came out of the blue, it was a storm brewing but the sun still shined :D

  • @kevinprior3549
    @kevinprior3549 4 года назад +3

    Hammond's eyes when the bolt first hit the roof of his car

  • @Jesus_Hippie
    @Jesus_Hippie 7 лет назад +60

    At 3:40, I think a bit of poo came out

    • @thefacelessmen2101
      @thefacelessmen2101 4 года назад +5

      Put on 1/4 speed and watch to 3:44 as his life passes before his eyes.

  • @jacobbahr9316
    @jacobbahr9316 Год назад

    0:57 don't know why but I love hearing Richard reveal that he's in Germany, as the camera brings the German warning sign into focus

  • @Hannchen
    @Hannchen 3 года назад

    I like the most that they selected radio fritz!
    Awesome!

  • @lokken23
    @lokken23 9 лет назад +11

    thunderbolt! ...not very effective

  • @CelestialTrailblazer
    @CelestialTrailblazer 3 года назад +9

    Imagine driving a SUV with panoramic sun/moon roof, then lightning strikes! No metal on top to protect you, its all glass.

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 2 года назад

      The lightning will (probably) attach to the edges around the sun/moon roof. Probably.

  • @outlawdingo3020
    @outlawdingo3020 Месяц назад

    I recall the radio and uhf going nuts with extremely violent static in my Nissan patrol one wet season years back, but since it's an old mechanical diesel nothing else really happened. I was trying to get home in the down pour of rain before the roads started flooding badly

  • @grindsetman488
    @grindsetman488 2 года назад

    This is why love this top gear

  • @alexm566
    @alexm566 3 года назад +22

    3:25 you can clearly see the metal wire attached to the ground for safety. this is nothing like the real deal except in trucks which use a similar metal wire always dragging with the ground.

    • @tchevrier
      @tchevrier 2 года назад +1

      That reminds me of a comment a friend of mine made. "don't worry about the lightning, we're well grounded". LMAO. Sorry It doesn't work that way.
      That strap you see on trucks is to discharge static electricity build up.

    • @shftin2gear
      @shftin2gear 2 года назад +1

      That’s just there to ensure the electricity goes from the car to the ground and doesn’t jump to any other pieces of equipment around, potentially damaging the facility.
      Real lightning may jump to other cars and not go directly to the ground but it doesn’t change the result of this experiment.

    • @lumer2b
      @lumer2b 2 года назад

      It is the same as the real deal as a real lightning will break the tires and go to ground anyway

  • @notgaryoldman1178
    @notgaryoldman1178 3 года назад +3

    I remember when this aired on TV it had a badass track from Donnie Darko playing. Not sure why it isn't in this one.

  • @sierrasymone7590
    @sierrasymone7590 2 года назад +1

    Legend has it, he had to buy a new set of trousers after he left

  • @jesseclutterbuck6617
    @jesseclutterbuck6617 Год назад +2

    woltage = The German word for Watt's combined with voltage lol

  • @someoneidkwho2936
    @someoneidkwho2936 3 года назад +146

    Fun fact: this video got in to your recommendation after 12 years.

    • @Jdmking-kp1mu
      @Jdmking-kp1mu 3 года назад +2

      Fun fact: I’ve been watching little clips from TG for nostalgia. I did actually search for this.

    • @someoneidkwho2936
      @someoneidkwho2936 3 года назад

      @@Jdmking-kp1mu aw :(

    • @re57k27
      @re57k27 3 года назад +1

      not really
      and I've been binge-watching these old clips cause of quarantine

    • @_ub4
      @_ub4 3 года назад

      Lmao

    • @RoyFromDetroit
      @RoyFromDetroit 3 года назад +3

      I'm aware you don't have to point out the obvious to get more likes.

  • @orbitalpotato9940
    @orbitalpotato9940 3 года назад +3

    3:03 Me looking at the two metal headrest posts inches away from his neck.

  • @yeaahnaah393
    @yeaahnaah393 3 года назад

    It was New Years Eve and I was camping with some family and friends at a caravan park. Most of the group where in cabins spread through out the park but we had a tent, it was starting to get cold so my mum walked back with me to our camp site from one of the cabins so I could get dressed. When we got to our camp site it started pouring with rain so we jumped in the car to take shelter. We where sitting in the car when there was a huge flash of lightning, all the interior lights, the headlights and the radio flashed on for a second and my mum turned around and told me not to touch anything and we just sat there too scared to move. Probably one of the freakiest things I've ever experienced.

  • @wolfrikvonschwarzblut3921
    @wolfrikvonschwarzblut3921 2 года назад +1

    I don't think the outcome would be the same in one of those all-carbon supercars. The Faraday cage effect only works with conductors (i.e. metals), and carbon isn't conductive.
    On another note: it surprises me that the magnetic field didn't fry the electronics. You know they say that only analog cars would survive an EMP attack, but this one seemed to be just fine after the test. I guess the magnetic field wasn't as strong as that of an EMP.

  • @CoffeeHead047
    @CoffeeHead047 3 года назад +4

    "Everything's gonna be fine"
    -Richard Hammond
    2008

  • @charlesearle8414
    @charlesearle8414 7 лет назад +13

    Well now I know my Golf is safe from lightning!

  • @JoeR203
    @JoeR203 2 года назад +1

    "He's starting to raise the woltage."

  • @moonbear5929
    @moonbear5929 2 года назад

    Hammond: "He's starting to raise the woltage."
    LOL

  • @fuzedd
    @fuzedd 10 лет назад +11

    Richard must have been YOLO

    • @voxel8or860
      @voxel8or860 10 лет назад +4

      Xtreme Designs must have been dropped on his head as a baby.

    • @fuzedd
      @fuzedd 10 лет назад +2

      Voxel8or Urm.. Just No xD

    • @sdvsraw2010
      @sdvsraw2010 10 лет назад

      Nah, he wouldn't have done this if he was really going to die.

    • @Yngvarfo
      @Yngvarfo 9 лет назад

      sdvsraw2010 Um, don't forget that Richard was the guy who almost killed himself trying to set a speed record in a rocket car. I'm not sure if this was before or after that, but there's certainly something of a daredevil in him.

  • @vikstar1927
    @vikstar1927 2 года назад +3

    I'd be shitting my pants if that happens to me irl 😂😂😂 I mean who wouldn't 😂

  • @ejzafratbooom8721
    @ejzafratbooom8721 2 года назад

    I love this old top gear series.

  • @floatingpeaks4584
    @floatingpeaks4584 2 года назад +1

    He wouldn't have sat in it unless he knew it was perfectly safe.