I didn't know Hummer's where this light.

[Gran Turismo7058]

Check It Out.

 

[Joey D]

at the right speed and the help from a ramp a Hummer H2 could jump like that. I bet it took some damage on the way down though.

 

[Gran Turismo7058]

The strange thing is that there is no ramp. Its just Jumping in mid air.

 

[Cobraboy]

How do you know that that isn't a sand dune and that the uphill incline of the dune isn't in the picture?

 

[Gran Turismo7058]

Yea, but its going downhill. So How does that make the Hummer possible to jump in the air like that.

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

Cause they are poorly engineered thats why!

 

[smg]

Originally posted by Josh7058
Yea, but its going downhill. So How does that make the Hummer possible to jump in the air like that.

It could be on its way down from a fairly larger drop

 

[Cobraboy]

You have to go UP one side of a sand dune to go down the other side. Thats why the sand is sloping down underneath the Hummer.

 

[Joey D]

The Hummer to reach the speed to do that had to be going down a hill then up another. I've driven a H2 and they don't like anything over 70mph.

 

[Cobraboy]

Uh-Huh, Down then Up in the blue abyss.

 

[Sludge Slide]

Maybe it has a killer set of hydraulics .

 

[MazKid]

How do you know it's going that fast? Hell, you can get a car off the ground at 20mph. I'm gonna guess that it's going 45mph. It probably started on flat sand, hit a built up sand dune(like a ramp), and whalla, GM now shows thier crap in the air.

 

[CDailey]

Originally posted by Sludge Slide
Maybe it has a killer set of hydraulics .

!

 

[CDailey]

Originally posted by MazKid
How do you know it's going that fast? Hell, you can get a car off the ground at 20mph. I'm gonna guess that it's going 45mph. It probably started on flat sand, hit a built up sand dune(like a ramp), and whalla, GM now shows thier crap in the air.

 

[MazKid]

Hey, as long as they keep it off the road, it's a good deal.

 

[Sludge Slide]

You can see the disturbed sand in the bottom left corner of the picture. The car has come off a ramp and the suspension has sprung out and clipped some sand. By the looks of the downward grade on the dune, I would say that the front end of the car would have looked pretty bad after it came down.

 

[SandStorm]

Originally posted by Josh7058
Yea, but its going downhill. So How does that make the Hummer possible to jump in the air like that.

Because sand dunes have two sides - the UP side and the DOWN side. Obviously, all that would fit in the picture was the DOWN side.

 

[SandStorm]

AND, that picture was Photoshopped.

 

[Sludge Slide]

How do you know that?

 

[Shannon]

*cough* fake *cough*

 

[1X83Z]

Is it not completely obvious that it just jumped off the pinnacle of the sand dune? Fake?

 

[Sludge Slide]

If it jumped off the pinacle, there would be a spray of sand fron the front wheels and the vehicle wouldn't be able to get up a sufficient amount of speed, on sand, to jump that far. I'm positive it has launched from a flat, solid surface.

 

[1X83Z]

Fine, whatever, but it isn't fake.

If it is from a flat solid surface, that sure speaks wonders about the H2's weight distribution, no?

 

[12sec. Civic]

It isn't hard to get air with a car.

Just because the Hummer is heavy doesnt mean it wouldn't take some air. Remember, when you drop 2 things i.e. A volley ball and a bowling ball, they will drop at the EXACT same speed, assuming there isn't excess air resistence. Like a feather obviously won't drop as fast as a bowling ball because it catches air easier.

So If you took a Hummer and a Civic off the same jump, the Hummer wont drop FASTER than the Civic just because it is heavier. But it would take more energy to get the Hummer as high off the ground, but thats why a Hummer has a 6.0L and the Civic has a 1.5L

 

[Sludge Slide]

If you take a look at the rear window, it's totally blacked out. I'd say they've got a whole pile of stuff in there to make sure the rear wheels gripped on the launch surface. Either that or yeah, it's one fat arse .

 

[MazKid]

Yea it has to be a solid launch surface. In the Dakar rally, they go over the same dunes like that, and the tops of dunes are usually un-compacted sand, the sand that blows around in the desert accumulates ontop of the dune. Even in the rally, you can't fly off of those, the wheels sink into the sand and keep the car stuck on the ground.

So in essence, it's fake, it gives the illusion that this H2 flew off a dune.

 

[Sludge Slide]

It's false advertising. Someone will buy a H2 and expect to do that and when he/she can't, they'll rip into Hummer. It's just like McDonalds, they advertise nice looking burgers and what you get is slop.

 

[1X83Z]

False advertising and fake are certainly not this. False advertising is only when a company makes an unsubstantiated claim which isn't true or can't be proven, and this certainly isn't fake -- maybe it gives you the illusion that it's coming off a sand dune, but if the photograph is unedited, sorry, it's real.

 

[Frustrated Palm]

Maybe they gutted it? So in reality it is jumping that far, but its like an egg shell with no egg yolk inside...

 

[MazKid]

Actually, has anyone seen the new Toyota truck commercial, forgot which truck, but it shows it in the desert and oddly it ramps off a dune, but it's like less then a foot off the sand, and it makes a huge sand cloud.

Thus, it is possible to ramp over a dune, but the pic of the H2 is a fake based on the miniscule sand cloud, hight which is nearly impossible by the viehicle shown, and the angle which would make the landing sketchy if not dangerous.

Case closed.