Bridge Building, the Hot Wheels way.

[CountryPug]

Found this on Pistonheads, amusing, thought I'd pinch it for 406oc



Don't you just wish they built motorways like this?

Sadly they don't; it's just an advertisement for Hot Wheels, who constructed a giant faux-loop on a motorway bridge in the Colombian capital Bogota. But we really, really want it to be real.

You can almost imagine a giant hand entering stage left to whizz a shiny-wheeled car around the loop.

Sadly, this is merely a new marketing wheeze from the toy-car company, part of a campaign that has also involved projecting a giant virtual Hot Wheels race track onto the side of a building in Australia.

Supplied by Pistonheads

[Gary406]

no 406 would be fast enough to go round that anyway CP

[omega]

if it was in the uk it would have a speed camera,pot holes and some old git parked at the top

[Doggy]

no 406 would be fast enough to go round that anyway CP

I don't really think any of those modified hot hatches would be fast enough either - but we should encourage them all to try.

[FarmerPug]

no 406 would be fast enough to go round that anyway CP

I don't really think any of those modified hot hatches would be fast enough either - but we should encourage them all to try.

[lozz]

idont think my 406 wouid make it round that,
Maybe with some weight reducement and some wings it might just do

[CountryPug]

I feel confident that my bean tin would make it round, off to buy a massive spoiler and give it a try

[sirwiggum]

On 5th gear they did a loop the loop.

It was a Toyota Aygo (same as 107, C1). It didn't need to be that fast (40mph I think) as too fast and you put too much G force into the track and it could collapse, but too slow and you wont have enough centrifugal force to keep you on the track!

[mjb]

no 406 would be fast enough to go round that anyway CP

Pfft!


No 406 would have the ground clearance to do anything other than crash into it though

[steve_earwig]

Something that tight? It would need to be a lot bigger to have a chance of any real car getting round it and I think it would end up somewhere between the G-force on the car crushing it or the car not having enough speed, getting half way round and falling on its roof.

I'd pay to watch that

[sirwiggum]

Something that tight? It would need to be a lot bigger to have a chance of any real car getting round it and I think it would end up somewhere between the G-force on the car crushing it or the car not having enough speed, getting half way round and falling on its roof.

I'd pay to watch that

The 5th gear one was about 50 foot tall I think.

They also had to remove the front bumper to get the ground clearance, even on an Aygo.

[plod]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZoVAZGgsw

[sirwiggum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZoVAZGgsw

The very one Plod, well found

They had to get it right on 36mph. Noticed the rear bumper also got ripped off.

Never had hot wheels loop the loop when i was wee. Had Matchbox Motorcity





And the Majorette city

[FarmerPug]

you had the fancy one, i remember having the car city carpet, it was great back in the day.

[sirwiggum]

you had the fancy one, i remember having the car city carpet, it was great back in the day.

haha I remember having a mat with a city on it. Was right hand drive so I was confused as to why the stop lines were in the wrong place

The still do them up Nutts Corner