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Does anyone have a car I can borrow?
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Get mine for the low Price of just 19.99$ (doors not included)
no
maybe
No, sorry champ
This channel has officially become "What if mythbusters didn't have insurance?"
My mate suggested i get insurance and I think it would actually be impossible
@@Ididathing well...there is video of you welding naked so I don't think an insurance company will be thrilled to have you.
@@Ididathing anyone who insured you would have to be a moron , clinically insane or some kind of super villain
@@IdidathingI certainly wouldn't sign your policy if it was my job on the line
@@IdidathingI would sign u if my job wasnt on the line
"whole family... of children."
even families are different in Australia
All species are different there
Everyone is someone's child
Lots of feral children, they like to band together in packs
I though he was going to say "family of orphans"
Beat me to it haha. Father can’t be more than 7
The irony of them becoming the pedestrians they swore to save is marvelous
We went full circle
Seriously though praise God it’s just the transmission and that none of that came into the cabin and hurt you guys. Very glad you’re all safe.
@@Ididathing maybe the real pedestrian catchers were the manakin stands we met along the way
I love that the words Ford built tough flash up on the dash right after it gets disabled by a shop mannequin.
That's Ford for ya.
@@SilveniumTheDrifter FORD: Found on Road Dead
@@idhatemet00fix or repair daily
My mom and Pawpaw were just talking about this the other day since my mom currently works at a Ford factory and my Pawpaw retired from there😂 They said they’re not made like how they used to be made. They’ve gone cheap and while the main exterior is pretty good, the actual vital stuff just seems to break so easily. Like the other day my mom almost got into an accident while trying to park one of the big trucks because the breaks gave out and that’s not the first time it’s happened to her or anyone else. Also if you see the parking lots where they park the trucks that need fixed (mostly from faulty wiring), man! Sometimes the main lot is completely full so they have to use the stadium by the plant’s parking lots and if it’s bad enough, CEDAR FUCKING POINT!! I’ve seen the entire back of Cedar Point’s parking lot filled with trucks that need fixed! It’s also due to people being fuckin lazy and not knowing how to do their jobs either due to a lack of training or they don’t wanna pay attention to how to do their jobs
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The higher grills also put the headlights directly at eye level for smaller cars, guaranteeing to blind their mirrors and taking away the driver's night vision. It's incredibly annoying
Hell even other trucks, I have an 1995 F150 that's only marginally taller than an average car and when one of the assholemobiles tailgates me because I'm only doing 62 in a 55 I still can't see shit.
That's also very dangerous.
@@king_acceler8755 I miss light cab trucks
Whenever one of those big trucks were behind me I always moved my mirrors to reflect the light back into their eyes
@zavtparticles6828 sadly they have basically been made illegal in the US, because our government measures fuel efficiency by its weight, so heavier trucks are more fuel "efficient" and smaller trucks aren't
I watch these immediately in case they get banned due to copyright or the Geneva convention.
IDAT: "I believe you mean the Geneva Suggestions, speaking of which..."
I'm surprised he's still posting after the last boy boy video where he tried to break into a US military base
Did that video get taken down or something, everyone talking about it but i cant see it
@@bjarkeziegler7295 you mean the military base one?
@@bjarkeziegler7295 www.youtube.com/@Boy_Boy/videos
Lmao imagine living next to this guy, every now and again when you’re chilling in your yard enjoying the tranquil sounds of the Australian wildlife, suddenly you hear a loud bang, something flies up into the air and you hear the familiar cackling of a mad man, taking pride in his work
Then a baby's head lands in your lawn in front of you missing one eye
My new neighbours don't like it quite as much as my old ones
@@Ididathing How to appease unhappy neighbours? Maybe you could make a Peace o Matic dispenser, if someone yells too loudly nearby It can play soothing music and dispense snacks of goodwill. XD apology cookies with little phrases on them.
I hope they chill out eventually tho. ^^
Why
"The baby's head came off! HAHAHAHA!"
the car leaking transmission fluid is something straight out of a horror movie
When he said 'coolant' I immediately said, no its trans fluid.
@@rhamsus1 Trans fluid that makes you trans as opposed to transmission fluid for your car
It literally is (Final Destination 2)
The fact that the fluid is red and looks like blood is honestly too perfect. 100% thought it was a bit at first like you had killed the mannequin
That's why I was so confused as to what it was ahaha
FRR
I thought they filled the mannequin with red-dye to make it more realistic instead of it being the transmission fluid 💀💀💀
As a human-like figure is struck by a moving vehicle, a viscous red liquid oozes from the scene
Car just had a period.
I think this is the first video where he not only completely failed at what he set out to do, he also caused significant damage to something he cared about. Bravo, a truly entertaining video. What is life without experiencing spectacular failure from time to time.
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He might have failed at this project, but in the end his main goal is to produce a highly entertaining video for youtuebe. So I say he succeeded.
@@UnreliableAdvice4all and is surprisingly educating, the more people aware of how deranged oversized trucks are, the better.
At least there was no brain damage this time
Andd put it on TH-cam to help pay for the damages
Nonono, I specifically asked for inventions that can INCREASE fatality in my quest of vehicular manslaughter not save them
Well then i suggest you get yourself a cybertruck, they are great at doing exacly that 😂
@@sikay2676 the good thing about cybertrucks is that they don't have normal crumple zones so while the other driver will get their car fucked, the cybertruck driver will get their legs broken.
Doesn't really help pedestrians. Except the driver having broken legs and not being able to drive.
well you are in luck then, he has successfully done that
I mean
Thats already working just fine with normal cars
@@sikay2676damn, you beat to it lol
Reuben’s weld was absolutely magnificent made me shed a tear as someone whose being welding for 92 years I can say Reuben is the best welder I’ve ever seen
It had me cracking up seeing the "Ford built tough" screen come up just after having the transmission fluid be punctured.
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All Raptors have Skid plates underneath for things like this, i dont know why his crappy australian version doesnt have it. Australia L
@@steelice2892prob they sold it without one if he bought it around the time when there was a supply issue but yes it should’ve come with one
fords are made of plywood
Same
Fun fact, pedestrian airbags do exist. A Swedish company named Autoliv manufactured them in the mid 2010's. It is essentially an airbag under the hood (bonnet) that inflates to create a soft cusion between the metal of the hood (bonnet) and the engine block. Only Volvo ended up buying them and no one wanted to spend the money even though in testing it did prevent a lot of injuries most decided it wasn't worth the cost.
Of course...
Didnt Citroen release the Cactus Pedestrian airbag system?
Extremely depressing yet informative thank you
I thought those are quiet common?
See, this is where government regulations should come into place. Might take a while though
As an American used to driving older cars and running over things for fun, it is absurd how easily this vehicle was damaged. I have jumped my car, used it for demolition purposes, and like to bump into things simply to amuse myself, and none of those things have damaged it functionally, aside from breaking shock absorber mounts, denting the bumper, breaking headlights, knocking the suspension out of alignment, slightly bending the frame, and eliminating the control arm bushings. This is all from jumping the car, going over curbs, and ramming things daily. To anyone curious as to how I have maintained a driver's license, I would like to clarify that I do the majority of my driving in the state of Alabama.
You bring a whole new skill set to the art of driving. I think I might need to move to Alabama!
Well. Sounds like your average Hoosier driver.
God bless the hearts of us modern southerners.
Yanks have their "bad parts of town" but the south has entire counties of their special breed of random bullshit lmao
American made cars are just garbage nowadays
They don't build em like they used to
Note taken: Wear full armor when going outside, so you can maximize damage on trucks if they hit you.
i usually carry a bag of caltrops and razor wire.
when*
Alright, duct tape Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) panels to myself when walking on foot, roger
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@@BoarhideGaming Gonna grab a Ford Focus, strap it with ERA boxes then take it to the States.
Get fμcked truck drivers, boom your engine is gone.
Imagine if some random guy just found the car while no one was around. Just a random car with a weird contraption in the front, giant pool of red fluid and a bunch of dismembered mannequins in the trunk 💀
The cop drove down there before the tow truck. No idea what he thought had happened
"Damn, didn't know Barilaro's hit squad scheduled a practice run today."
@@Ididathing Maybe he didn't want to know. In the words of Cypher: "Ignorance is bliss."
hey, at least ya can't steal it without a tow truck
Did the police ever contact you? If I passed by your truck on the way to see what was going on I would write down the license plate number I think you would be fined for littering
I love the big "BUILT TOUGH" on the dash, right before it says "Nope never mind its broken, needs repair"
oh yeah we built tough
*computer finishes checking all the sensors*
UMMM OK MAYBE NOT THAT TOUGH SORRY GUY
God loves you all
Wrecked by a mannequin stand off all things
Seeing a Ford with the driver on the wrong side is wild.
its competely unscathed lol just the small part of it broke, and it was under. How tf did that happen lol
Thank you for sacrificing your car and showing us a way to prevent big 4x4 pickups ruling our streets.
When i was a kid, someone rear ended us at the red light. We were fine, but the car behind us also had that red coolant leaking, my kidbrain thought it was blood from the car and it was terrifying and traumatized me in that moment.
Thanks for the flashback
rip
Yeah of all the colors to use for transmission fluid. Although technically the car is pretty dead without it so....
That’s certainly something to remember in your childhood years
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Reminds me of the leave me alone akira meme
I love how this is supposed to be a strong mans car and yet you drive over ONE (1) pedestrian and it breaks
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God loves you all
to be fair pedestrians usually arent standing on loose metal
@@Nzuri.What are you talking about i love standing on loose metal
@@staciemohler4624 my bad my bad bro
"Oh no that's coolant"
*Unknowingly drives with low transmission fluid and causes $5000 of damage*
Yeah I definitely fucked it
This video better go viral then...
Hopefully it’s covered under warranty, I mean really, that mannequin came out of nowhere!
No* trans fluid...
@@Ididathing haha fix or repair daily
Decides to build invention that saves people’s lives instead of threatening them, invention comes together flawlessly
I love how you make this video subtly about the importance of car manufacturers making some of the most dangerous vehicles for OTHER people to be around, ever, while simultaneously doing easily some of the most dangerous things a TH-camr has ever done, simply because it's funny. That's what makes this channel great.
@@950windmillgrovecircleorla9 haha kiss yourself mate 🤣😭
@@950windmillgrovecircleorla9No, you really aren’t.
@reptarien what did he say?
@@Anarcko_The_Anarchist it was just some douche advertising in the comment section, he said something like "my content is better than I did a things's"
Headlights are also becoming a problem. Manufacturers are installing those bright ass blue hued LEDs. The color blue at night is literally the worst for your eyes and pupils. That's why astronomers use red lights and red flash lights.
It's getting so bad.
I was told by AutoZone it would be considered impersonation to install the blue hued lights on my car. So why do car manufacturers get away with it?
I like that he's joking about everyone driving an M1 Abrams but modern SUVs are literally the size of WW2 tanks
They don't even make a wagon anymore
Abrahams as said in the video
@@pegg00 A Ford F150 (2015) has a length of 19' 4" while a M3 Lee (early war medium tank) has a length of 18' 6". A sherman tank (depending on variant) is around 19-20' long, so it terms of length its pretty similar while the width and height of the Ford is around 2' less than the tanks.
Having seen a sherman in person. Yeah, modern trucks are nowhere close.
@@Max-vn6jv yeah i mean for no having a giant turret on top of your vehicle that pretty high
3:34 the fact that he went out of his way to add the slight blindness effect while saying that the welding can't damage our eyes is hilarious.
I don't get it
I don’t get it
I literally didn't even notice that until you mentioned it, that's such a brilliant subtle joke
@@alexandretherrien1234 black spot overlay where he jut welded
@@nameqok wow thanks.
To be serious for a sec, those stats and visuals of how dangerous trucks are is actually terrifying. Especially in my case where my 17 y/o brother recently bought one and he’s been in two accidents in the past 6 months and is on good behaviour(1 accident in the truck where he backed into a car and 1 where he lost control in the rain and completely wrecked the car (this didn’t happen in the truck, it was his previous car but pretty scary, he was fine tho, he had air bags. The good behaviour is bc he got caught speeding 30km over the limit but he was able to keep his license as his job requires a car). I’ve seen the way that my brother drives and I know exactly how dangerous every time he’s on the road is. I live in an area with a lot of kids bc I live in the centre of an education hub and I always fear a small child running into the road as he’s always speeding and I fear the stopping distance.
Are you from Canada?
That stain on your sheet was intimidating.
Good
@@Ididathing going to clean it up?
You can’t clean something that glorious up…
Yes.. eh...yes Intimidating is the word I would use as well, yes... *ahem*....
@@Ididathingwonder how that “normal” stain happened💀
this is incredibly smart of you alex, not only can you write off the raptor as a business expense, but the tow truck and mechanic as well!
Big if true
God loves you all
Driving a small car in the USA, like a miata nowadays is legitimately terrifying. Nobody can even see you, and sometimes your eye level is the bottom of the body of their truck.
even more reason for these trucks to be permanently banned off public roads...
@@davepastern SUV lobbyists in US: Driving in a small car is dangerous, so they should be banned from all roads. SUVs are the safest cars. For the drivers. Fuck pedestrians, filthy carless peasants, they should buy a SUV if they want to live.
Not to mention getting blinded by their lights
This is why nobody cycles either.
As a lowered 90 Corolla… no kidding. It’s crazy and terrifying many times
I hear your property value drops 100k if this guy moves into your neighborhood.
"its not a warcrime if you enjoy it" is this man's favorite motto of life
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Also the IDF.
Also it's not war if you declare it a sport
Your a bot
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@@PetesTools.BiggestFan Getting called a bot is a new one to me. Do you mind sharing how you came to that conclusion? *beep dial up sound beep*
The "Built, Ford Tough" screen at 18:06 after the car shit itself after hitting a mannequin is pretty fitting.
That made me chuckle
Built to make the owner look tough.
FORD: found on road dead.
It's accurate, it's just that "Ford Tough" means breaks the moment it impacts any form of metal, or after a random number of miles between end of warranty and 120,000.
I was a bis surprised that there was not engine protection underneath the car... like trans fluid? What The Hell... Coolant would be maybe more acceptable but still... a rock could hit it at that speed or a twig or something.
You actually nailed the historical market strategy for cars; crank out a bunch of bigger cars and then blame pedestrians for getting run over when the streets were originally meant for people instead of cars. Jaywalking as a concept was only invented so car manufacturers could talk smack about people who just wanted to walk places instead of driving everywhere.
I see, you are perhaps a conisseur of "Not Just Bikes"? Based and orange-pilled.
Jaywalking still amaze me to this day, could even get you arrested in America! I never heard of the word/don't know what it mean until I watch video from Climate Town channel. It simply not a thing in my country. edited: arrested
@@Lom-Romjaywalking by itself will not out you in jail
@@Lom-Rom exactly, in every country other than the united states, if you were to say "I was walking in the street, then I was arrested and fined", people either assume, or just ask "damn, what did you do?"; because it's well understood that being run over is enough punishment for being careless
I never heard of or met anyone getting arrested for just jaywalking in America. Then again I don't live in the south 🤷
As someone who went to a technical college for two years in the welding department, your ability to MiG weld while completely unprotected concerns and amazes me.
It was hard not to cringe. I don’t even weld or come even close to it. It’s definitely an accident waiting to happen
I like the idea of you building old inventions that never caught on and improving them.
Yeah I've got a couple of ideas written down
Or in this case, not. Pretty sure the old ones in that clip he showed had a fair bit more padding.
Improve is a strong word
@@AleckFPV it could be improved by being more entertaining, there is lots of ways to improve stuff.
@@KoscheiMorevnaand less car breaking
"I'd prefer that if it breaks and goes catastrophically wrong, that it happens on the car, at speed" is my new favorite quote
It aged well.
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The most depressing thing is everyone driving M1A1s would likely prevent some pedestrian deaths cause they have better front visibility than most consumer pickup trucks.
The ability to stop on a dime would definitely save lives.
Pros of everybody driving MBTs
-never worry about parallel parking
-no need for roads
-instead of servicing your engine or transmission just replace the whole thing
-badass
-270 degree blindspots
-if two vehicle collide it's horrible instant death for everybody involved, meaning you don't need to pay for repair
you also go slower, and not many people know the inside of a tank = less deaths & less driving.
I've been an abrams my dad's company was working on, and he's not wrong 😂
Navigating rush hour in Texas would also be much more fun when you have APFSDS to dispatch Nissan Altimas.
They can still go pretty fast dude, plus even at low speeds it can still kill someone due to all the weight behind the force @@aegis3505
The way you go about inventing things with only the idea but no plan behind it whatsoever is… an interesting approach
Thinking of those people squinting and looking away while you weld makes me happier than it probably should
Someone once asked me that in real life when I was watching a welding video.
I literally aspirated beer all over them and my couch. Some of it even came out of my nose.
@@Jimmeh_B haha awwww
but it hurts my eyes :
Photosensitivity ain't fun.
@@VelaiciaCreator that's weird because I'm sure I've been laughing at it 🤔
I love the fact that it not only failed but also absolutely sniped your trucks transmission as an extra fuck you
wtf did he do wrong?
@@jam_3officalAlmost everything. I have no idea how he expected it to work well 😭
Wow MintTea2005, cool to see you commenting on here! Can't believe you cameo'd in this video at 5:15
The fact that youre still able to post videos after going to that military base is absolutely crazy
What video is that?
@@brksnunes latest video on aleksas channel
@@brksnunes it's on the Channel 'Boyboy'
@@brksnunesit’s the latest video on the boy boy channel
Freedom
3:16 I love how it’s ’When I hit you’ and not ‘If I hit you’
The sad thing is that the real reason pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers became so popular was because American car manufacturers started prudcing more of them and and heavily advertising them just to evade a 1978 tax that was meant to "to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficient vehicles". The tax was meant to only affect passenger cars so an exemption was made for trucks, SUVs and minivans because back in 1978 these cars were mostly made for non-commercial uses, but mega-conglomeretes used this as a loophole to increase profits at the price of their consumer's fuel efficiency, the climate, and public safety.
So it's just usa's fault..
And it got even worse about a decade ago when they tied fuel efficiency targets to vehicles' wheelbases, incentivizing vehicles, especially trucks, to get physically larger in order to lower their efficiency requirements.
The thing with "big cars" as a whole is that all you need to do to understand why they spread like a plague is to drive on a road where they have hit the "10% or above" fraction of the vehicles.
Quite simply, their height and bulkiness obstructs the view of lower, smaller cars quite a lot, and some drivers feel anxious driving around vehicles significantly more imposing than their own (for good reasons), so SUVs, trucks, and co create more drivers partly through being a nuisance on the roads unless you're driving one of them too.
Actually, they're popular because they're just well enough made to fool people into thinking they're good vehicles, when in reality they're just well enough made to last the warranty.
This then means they're extremely cheap to make. An estimate puts one of these trucks at a third of the market price.
the "do good" folks are at it again, and it never works
"lets stop fuel inefficient" , but only for the peasants, aka, the people instead of the corporations.
they deserve everything that's coming for them
you have my condolences for your worst failure on record. i love your channel, keep up the good work
Thanks mate
second worst
You set out to prove the lifesaving efficiency of past tech and ended up disproving the durability of "a real man's vehicle" in the process. Astounding.
He just had the Ford stereotype, remember 90 percent of Fords built since 1985 are still on the road, we pray that the drivers managed to get home
He should've got a Silverado
The only real tough trucks anymore are just commercial vehicles. I haven't seen an actually tough truck since the early 2000s that wasn't built for commercial duty. Before everyone cries that I just insulted them for buying a compensation machine. I own an F350 from the 90s. It's tough, but also, it's not even close to being tough compared to a simple actual straight truck.
Modern trucks are just less useful SUVs or work vans for guys who want to show off they goto home depot for a 5 pack of drywall anchors once a year.
Yeah guess I did well
"Built tough!"
(Unless you have a slow speed impact with something underneath the car, but when would that ever happen to a vehicle supposedly built for off-roading?)
I also find it hilarious that this big "tank" of a truck can be disabled so easily
The "Built Ford Tough," logo popping up while you fail to shift out of first at 18:05 really cracks me up.
As an auto insurance claims adjuster I am thrilled you are producing anti-pedestrian killing technology, our company doesnt fund those studies but luckily we know a lot about how transmissions get damaged from running over people.
Like really?? Its common for transmissions to get damaged after running someone over?
@@TarmanTheChampion Legs getting folded backwards + the big ride height forcing pedestrians under the truck + how damn tough human leg bones really are = some really mangled limbs that have a very easy time destroying pipes under the truck.
It's an absolute disgrace that the affordable micro-cars (which are still pretty safe for all parties by todays safety standards) have been almost entirely phased out of production because of constant governmental interference and how hard it was to make any amount of money on them, meanwhile car companies wanting to avoid troublesome things like safety standards and fuel efficiency standards just made every new car so large that fatalities are skyrocketing again
2:40 such a good point. people back in the day really used to think the street was there to allow people to move between buildings. now we know its for cars to go fast on.
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I hate how many people ACTUALLY think this is correct.
@@acmhfmggru maybe somewhere without horses lol
@acmhfmggru there were never as many carriages and trolleys as there are cars now, and people didn't get hit by them nearly as much
I love how if you miss your approach even a little bit youre going to have a human skewer ready for the grill
I like how in the thumbnail it's clearly Alexsa's car, showing that they really thought that the truck would've survived the testing
Ahahaha you figured it out exactly
"Its the coolant" as transmission oil pours onto the road. Built ford tough coming up on the dash was the icing on the cake.
found on road dead
Ikr! Such garbage these days, all of the big car companies are complete trash! #Plasticpans
@@DinDooIt To be fair based on the dent it put in the frame I doubt a metal pan would've fared much better unless it was like an inch thick.
No car can be tough when there is a computer telling it what to do. Just you wait until all these cars with those auto start/stop functions start to mess up. They will either cost a ton to fix (even though the problem is mostly digital), or it will fail in a catastrophic way or at the most inopportune time
@@king_acceler8755from what I can see online the OEM pan is made out of cast aluminum on the bottom. It looks like what he is saying punctured the pan was a copper or brass pipe.. whatever it was was strong enough to lift a 5000 lb truck off the ground, so yeah.. idk if this person expects the pan to be made out of cobalt or something. If half the trucks weight was being pushed up by that puncture point that looks to have a radius of about .5 cm.. thats about 20000 pounds per square inch of pressure.. and thats assuming the pipe wasn't hollow, which it looks to be.. for a hollow pipe, assuming the thickness was 1mm it would be about 50000-60000 psi which is about the pressure of a bullet
only you oiling up can save my life
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#relatable
@@Tyto-ATTA he did get dirt up
Oil up the motors kids, it saves lives
Hell yeah
"Maybe my car's just due for a service" hit me hard. Sorry you got stuck out in the middle of the highway, but you kept an impressively jovial mood throughout the examination. Thanks for sharing this experience with us!
I just wanted to congratulate Reuben for having a good go at welding.
You'll get there, mate.
Yeah he did great
@@Ididathing it's certainly not the worst welding I've seen from this channel.
@@Triffinator1 that's a high bar
16:10 First time ever that the car bleeds before the pedestrian in a car crash
wow, from 0:30 - 2:30 was the most concise and easily understandable 2 minutes of explaining the safety concerns of larger and larger trucks becoming normalized.
well done mate, not only am i equipped with a 2 minute explanation of the problem, i had 18 minutes telling me a solution that only costs $25 at a second hand store, and masking take to afix it on my legs.
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Safety concerns are understandable, but the people who complain about trucks don't live in a place that can get 10 feet of snow no problem.
@@joshualfalken ok so why did i pass by a huge huge truck pulling out out of the mall with a 7yo in the passenger seat in Florida?
@@joshualfalken Even the little 90's f150s could handle snow. These giant lifted civilian smashers are completely unnecessary.
@@joshualfalken Truck drivers are wankers, face facts.
Putting your nice new truck on the line for science! That’s the dedication we are here for.
Dunno if anyone else mentioned it but a lot of the issue with cars early on was that when they were introduced pedestrians kept walking like they always had and car drivers were fucking looney. In the US newspapers and car manufacturers introduced jaywalking and started shaming people for it to shift the blame from cars to pedestrians.
Using that logic, boats kept going clean through bridges cause bridges havent been there before. Transportation evolves. I know where I live if u don't have a big truck or suv u ain't moving 4 to 6 month of the year and I'm in what's known as a 4 season state meaning a normal climate state (pennsylvania)
@@zeloth7I think you'll find people move, while bridges stay still. And bridges have been around about as long as boats.
@@zeloth7 Bridges came before boats
@@zeloth7 I call BS, I live in Finland which is guaranteed to be worse to drive in during winter. I make do with a VW Golf just fine.
God loves you all
It’s honestly astounding how much pickup trucks have grown in size and power but have also gotten ZERO increase in utility usage
Have you ever towed anything? Honest question. And have you ever driven down a dirt road preferably in the snow, like maybe out to a drilling rig?
@@martymcfly88mph35 How may people do you think own pickup trucks that do even just one of those things even once at all?
@Hifuutorian I dont make my opinions for something based on what the idiots do. Hammers are used to drive in nails, I don't look down on hammers because someone used one for a murder. Just because lots of people don't use trucks properly doesn't mean I spaz out about them like redditors do. Too many people that work from a laptop all day talk about what us in the working class should be able to drive or not drive
While saying that, yes, I agree truck posers annoy me. Too many women and laptop jockeys own trucks and never actually use them for work. It gives us that actually use them properly a bad name among the laptop class and redditors and proletariat LARPers
@@martymcfly88mph35 lmao your profile pic is hilarious. i can already tell the headspace you are in. i actually feel kinda bad for you because your point isnt wrong, but you are delivering it in the worst manner possible. have you ever considered visiting a LIBERAL therapist? maybe her ass who sits on a laptop all day can help you in some ways believe me. you really need to get out of that working class competition you are fighting in your head.
19:35 you can actually see the rear wheels locked up when they drag it on the tow truck. Jeez. Now you need to build something for you truck to protect it against pedestrians.
Yeah I did not feel good watching that
It might have something to do with the wheel chock he left under the rear wheel. And not putting it in tow mode. A lot of modern vehicles with electronic parking brakes will automatically apply the parking brake if it detects the wheel is rolling with the engine off.
There will be instructions in your owner's manual to disable the parking brake and mechanically override the transmission into neutral for this exact reason.
That's just because its stuck in park, without fluid the transmission cant build hydraulic pressure and will not shift
@@smashedpapya2563 transmissions have mechanical linkages to shift into PRNDL , unless it's a new fancy electronic version of that linkage, but they will always have a mechanical over ride to force the transmission into neutral for towing it.
so you cant even shift fords into neutral if there's something wrong? seems very counter intuitive
2:52 "almost at a similar level to today" and shows a graph from 1990
love you alex
I love the lowkey informing of local and global issues cleverly disguised as hilarious murder.
I would have thought it was the other way around
18:04 car dash displays "BUILT TOUGH" message right after getting crippled by a flimsy manechin stand 😂😂
Mannequin* but yes, it’s pretty ironic that a big car like that gets taken out of commission that easily 😅
Yeah amazing but horrible timing
You can disable any car by severing is transmission cooling lines.
Yea fords plastic oil pans
@@lawnmowerdude There are cars that are well built and there are American cars that make it really easy for a mannequin stand to destroy them so you have to go to a mechanic.
I deeply relate with that "wrenches" sign on the wall, with little places to hook them on, but there is none there because you just randomly decided to organize the garage one day and it never stuck
relatable. well, no, i would never organize.
The fact that the real tough outdoor man showed in the F150 Raptor ad at 0:55 starts reeling the wrong way is hilarious
That shadow you put on the screen after welding was genius 😂😂😂😂😂
I hope some people were concerned for at least a couple of seconds
I’m still seeing that shadow what gives
Lol😂
...what shadow?
@@TimeLemur6 @3:43, the dark spot on the bottom of the screen. It makes it look like the camera was damaged by filming a bright welding arc.
There's not enough people talking about how awesome it must have been to meet Jamie Hyneman, not to mention whatever crazy project was going on.
Or the convenient opportunity to nick his stuff.
Was looking for the Jamie Hyneman comment!
You know... for a car that's supposed to be able to drive off road with ease, it certainly got ruined easily by one little metal doohicky.
Fully expected the red pool to be from a small child that you didn't see.
I can imagine this becoming an olympic game, where you have to catch as many pedestrians as possible
Why isn’t this a thing already 😂
blacking out the part of the camera after the welding spark was a brilliant touch
wdym?
@@toolng1798 rewatch the first welding scene and look at the welding light 3:17
@@aok76_ uuh I dont see anything maybe it's just you 2
@@toolng1798 Its the light at 3:42. At 3:44 where the light was its a bit blacked out just like it would be if you looked into a too bright light.
@@RoosterCarnage nah you 3 are seeing things you might wanna get that checked out tho
Absolute masterpiece. The gurren lagann reference, followed by "M1 Abrahams" and then the whole transmission fluid... Perfection.
you can tell it was a sad moment because he wore shoes at 18:46
I mean it kinda works, you cant kill any more pedestrians if your car cant drive
trueeee
Dang, I wish I could deal back that kind of damage every time a car hits me! That mannequin is a real one!
Yeah every one needs metal bones
Damn, the moment I saw that transmission fluid leaking out, my heart sank. A couple of years ago I hit a pothole and it punched a hole in mine to where all the fluid leaked out. I panicked and got to a mechanic right away, not realizing how bad it'd be to try and drive it like that, (especially because I thought it was an oil leak at first), and it ended up destroying my transmission. It was nearly a $2000 fix to get a new one when I finally found someone who could fix it, (rural area and half the mechanics here are "specialized" and won't work on hardly anything). The mechanic also kept coming up with excuses to put it off, so it was nearly two months to get the job done on top of that...
If it was road debris or even a huge pothole your full coverage insurance may have paid for that.
@@ohioplayer-bl9em Don't have full coverage insurance because it's too expensive relatively speaking. My car is old, (2006 model Chevy HHR), and basically my choice at the time was either pay the repair cost or see if I could find a car in better condition for the same price or less.
As much as I hated paying for it, it was ultimately the better option because the car is still running fairly well to this day, and buying "cheap" used cars is always a big risk.
That's because replacing a transmission is a giant pain in the axx.
Even Dr Strange could have told us there wasn't a single universe where the truck doesn't get damaged
I’ve heard that bricks are a great way to protect yourself as a pedestrian, drivers will respect you if have a brick in your hand.
As a pedestrian, I can testify that I am always bricked up for drivers
Every car actually has ai and makes it impossible to hit someone holding a brick.
i have heard this yes
Whoever animated 1:21 is crazy attractive!
WOOOOOOO RUSSHH LIGHT
@@KaironeFPS
Omg my god
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That device definitely stopped the car, just not in the way we expected.
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Your videos are some of my favorite on TH-cam! Thank you!
Heavier cars also means roads deteriorate faster which means an even bigger amount of tax money needs to be spent on maintaining the road network. It really is the worst trend that marketing has created this century so far.
Its not marketing, there was nothing perfect about smaller cars they were always a compromise. As a complete package these larger cars are way better products and people choose them freely.
@@backgammonbaconSpotted the Ford exec
@@backgammonbacon nah, it was a combination of marketing and of regulation-dodging with the SUV light truck loophole
@@henriquepacheco7473 yeah by making them light trucks instead of cars, which are legal distinctions under CAFE. light trucks got weaker regulations, they could emit more per weight or size or something, so by convincing people to buy light trucks, they could dodge the regulations. personally i think it should go the other way, the heavier the vehicle, the more stringent per weight or size the regulations should be. more allowed, but less than simply scaling it up, thus creating an incentive to make smaller vehicles, as they would then be easier to make.
@@morgan0 the idea was that those were commercial vehicles, stuff important for logistics and stuff. Leaving that clause has turned every other vehicle into multi-ton monsters that only makes things worse for everyone (but the companies selling them) though, so yeah.
My 3 year old and I have gotten hours of laughter from that clip of you walking. He will just randomly ask me to play it over and over.
Ahahaha that's so cute
The sarcasm from the "Built Tough" message on the dash as you try to turn on your broken truck. That's a great advertisement to the weakness of those trucks.
I love this man’s narration this is like the better mark Rober!
I like how right after messing up the truck, they turn it on and it says "Built ford tough."
Yup, as tough as plastic can get, lmao....junk...!
@@DinDooIt tell me the name of a single car that can survive getting hit like that.
@@orange8175SHERP
@@orange8175 literally any with a basic skid plate would have been fine
@@coreydavis4106 it lifted the entire car, you think some dinky plate is gonna stop that?
Oh hey, I had to research this exact issue not long ago for a college essay. The injury, death, and all that rates apply to vehicles of the “light-truck” category which also include SUVs. SUVs also are unfortunately now one of the most common cars on US roads.
This next part was my own guess and not necessarily fact from any research paper, but I believe this also means that they can market the cars as being “safer” due to the fact that, by percentage, the “light-truck” drivers are more likely to survive a crash compared to a sedan driver in the same car on car collision.
There was also a bunch of other interesting information relating to SUVs being overall bad cars (gas consumption, environmental statistics, roll-overs, etc), but the main issue people saw was the collision issues, especially with pedestrians.
i love how a very important part of the vehicle that is required for the vehicle to move and is very exposed under the car is made of some plastic.
Literally could have been a rock or any debris that you didn't see.
And I love that it's not only that part, but multiple parts. Was pure coincidence that the thing pierced the (plastic) gear oil pan and not the (plastic) oil pan...
Or a person's femur.
All he did was damage a transmission cooling line. Any car will be stranded if you did they. And guess what they aren’t meant to be javelin by homemade contraption of metal.
@@lawnmowerdude It's sold as an off-road vehicle, though. They must know nobody ever goes off road with them.
@@lawnmowerdude an off road vehicle should at least somewhat protect the underside from debris and rocks, right? like a flimsy aluminum mannequin stand shouldn't pierce an essential part of the car, they could at least bolt on a steel plate or something, which would actually reduces drag too.
"M1 Abrahams" made me spit coke onto my screen
what i love about this channel is that his effort to his bit for just a 15-55 seconds is just a thing we can appreciate
15:59 for one sec i thought "WTF THE MANNEQUIN IS BLEEDING?"
I thought they filled the mannequin with fake blood
@@kirabad-artist6532 me too
The world looks red.
The fact that these trucks are named things like ‘predator’ is a little too on the nose
I believe it's called a raptor but go off
@@78declan 1:39
@@78declan no there's tons of vehicles like this with name's like "predator, black king kong, escape, eclipse, great wall, ram 750 up to ram 2500 etc.."
@EbbyBebbyGebby that is the motor dummie
@Lukasfr the predator is the motor in the Ford raptor shown at the timestamp used as "proof", even a quick google search will show you there's no car called a "predator ", as that would probably get misconstrued as a "child predator " or something, would be bad for PR
how is nobody mentioning the fact that the ad at 8:00 is clearly using an AI gen voice???
Looks like the entire ad is created using the own odoo
My husband wanted me to point out that the tow truck driver didn't haul your truck properly. And he could "fuck it up worse, by letting the tires drag on the ground".
But it won’t get out of park because it has no tranny fluid! How else can it get up the tilt tray?
@@danielpitsios683there's usually an override for the shift lock hidden close to the shifter. It's already in neutral if it's got no fluid, so you just have to get it out of park
You can take out the drive shaft from underneath. (Which was explained to me is what prevents this) I don't know anything, I just saw an 8 year old girl do it one time. Her dad's a tow truck driver.
Just insane how you are so creative, technically skilled and super funny & witty at the same time. This is peak entertainment! You sir, know what you're doing.
least obvious fed
Haha do you work at that Australian CIA military base 🙂
6:24 I'm so happy I'm not the only one who opens doors with their feet.
It's just more satisfying
5:17
I’m so glad I’m not the only one with dick and ball shaped stains on their linens
@@Ididathing Fr
This is the first time I have ever seen this man be morally passionate about something, I'm glad hes using his platform to bring attention to this growing truck and SUV problem
Bro is a communist, at least 20% of his vids have a political undertone. Public infrastructure, institutionalized injustice, etc.