Thursday 7th April 2011

Road-Building The Hot Wheels Way

Bogota bridge construction is totally loopy (groan). Shame it's not real...

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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.

But this latest stunt seems to have worked rather well at PH HQ, where more than one of our number are planning an excursion into the loft this evening to see if we can find our old sets. Or failing that a quick trawl through the depths of eBay...

[Prince Jefri]

First though was "they must be high on something".

Bogata......nuff said.

[Asterix]

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

[edo]

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

82.785mph

[JumpinJack]

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

see if this helps

[ZesPak]

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

First question that popped to mind

[Papa Hotel]

[chazwozza]

Utterly stupid, love it

[Draexin]

Brilliant stuff!



... if anyone needs me, I'll be in the attic

[Rumblestripe]

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

Yup, me too!

You are now entering a MINIMUM speed area, failure to exceed 83mph will result in YOUR DEATH!

[[AJ]]

JumpinJack said:

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

see if this helps

That is excellent!

[ZesPak]

Rumblestripe said:

Yup, me too!

You are now entering a MINIMUM speed area, failure to exceed 83mph will result in YOUR DEATH!

I quite like that idea.

[Spedz]

[AJ] said:

JumpinJack said:

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

see if this helps

That is excellent!

That is incredible!
Quite surprised that only 36mph was the ideal velocity though!

[checksum]

They should put these on the M6 toll road then it would be worth paying for.

[loudlashadjuster]

Hot Wheels tracks? Pah! Darda is where it is at.

[CuP197]

Am I the only one who thinks this looks absoloutely pants?

[Ricky Cox]

edo said:

Asterix said:

Out of curiosity, how fast would your average 1,500kg car have to be going to successfully complete the loop at roughly that diameter (at a guess 30 metres)?

82.785mph

82.785mph would be far too fast, 82.781mph is the true figure.

[Craiglamuffin]

If that were in the UK it wouldn't be a loop, it would be a vertical pothole.

[Papa Hotel]

CuP197 said:

Am I the only one who thinks this looks absoloutely pants?

Probably not. There's usually one or two that think it's cool to say stuff is st that most other people can get a smile from.

[anonymous-user]

Papa Hotel said:

CuP197 said:

Am I the only one who thinks this looks absoloutely pants?

Probably not. There's usually one or two that think it's cool to say stuff is st that most other people can get a smile from.

Its becoming a sad aspect of PH

[Cotty]

PH said:

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

You mean like this