Tuesday 15th November 2011

Time for tea? Holy leaping G-Wagens

How far will a Mercedes G-Wagen leap off a ski jump? You tell us...

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"Can you imagine what it would feel like to take a G-Class down a ski jump?" asks the Mercedes-Benz press release. "To find out, visit our new G-Class Facebook page and experience the G-Jump game for yourself."

What you find when you arrive at the G-Jump game is an opportunity to spec-up your own Gelandewagen (Mercedes insists on calling it a G-Class but editor Trent is somewhat of a purist) and then fling it down a ski-jump.

It's certainly an amusing way to pass the time while you put off doing any real work, but we suspect lobbing a real G-Class off a ski-jump slope would be rather messier... and we doubt you'd manage the 153-metre jump that the game reckoned we would be capable of...

^{(ps - we apologise if your employers block your access to Facebook. But then if they do that, they probably block PH too, so you won't be reading this. So just ignore us...)}

 

 

[davemac250]

Linky???

[Mogsmex]

davemac250 said:

Linky???

http://www.facebook.com/MercedesBenzGClass?sk=app_268648943163599

[Schmeeky]

Edit - My best so far - 175.3m

Edited by Schmeeky on Monday 14th November 16:34

[Nick Young]

169.9 for me

[Du1point8]

173.9 and then got bored as there seems to be no skill to it

[vidfletch]

You really need to put links in BOLD letters. I don't need to go to Specsavers but on more than one occasion I have missed the link!

[Dan Trent]

Thanks for the notes on the bolding up of links - something we were just talking about in the office earlier as it happens and a quirk of the new format that they're not so obvious as they once were.

As we speak Riggers is hitting the special PH 'make links bold' button and we'll be doing so from now on as a matter of course.

Cheers!

[vidfletch]

That works! Much better!

[anonymous-user]

168.7 on first attempt, then gave up as you cant mangle it on landing

[Zad]

Shame you have to "Like" the Merc page and give them free publicity.

Anyway, falling downhill due to gravity isn't just easy, its the law. Driving _up_ a ski jump , on the other hand, is a tad harder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHH-726_8lA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxylbbjBl4

[Beyond Rational]

185.3m - but as has been said, without failure, what is the point?

[Matt UK]

How do I actually play it? It just asks me if I like it?

[VPower]

Zad said:

Shame you have to "Like" the Merc page and give them free publicity.

Anyway, falling downhill due to gravity isn't just easy, its the law. Driving _up_ a ski jump , on the other hand, is a tad harder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHH-726_8lA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxylbbjBl4

And all done on SUMMER tyres I bet?

[Ari]

Don't know about summer tyres, but it was done for real!

[SlimRick]

190.3

[VPower]

Ari said:

Don't know about summer tyres, but it was done for real!

That's interesting as I can see the tow line on the older Audi video!

Look at the front under the bumper and you can see the snow lifting in front of the car.

And they did not show the same view on the newer run.

Go on tell me it's a safety line and did not pull it?

OK 37.5 degrees, is do-able on studded tyres I suppose, so would be interesting to know what tyres they did use.

[Zad]

Yes, it was a safety tether. On both vehicles. Tyres were studded. Both were driven up there solely under their own power.

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

[The Moose]

The last time I saw a Mercedes G-Wagon jump it didn't turn out too well...for the car (for real, I mean)

This was the car:

[Munich]

So you apologies to those that cannot use Facebook at work, but what about the people (i.e. me) that have youtube blocked and therefore can never watch any of the video links you put up...? Any consideration for us? It's just not fair!

[Munich]

The Moose said:

The last time I saw a Mercedes G-Wagon jump it didn't turn out too well...for the car (for real, I mean)

And what did it look like after the jump?