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Author: TopGear
Description: The Top Gear team wonder what it would be like if you were struck by lightning while in your car. Richard Hammond finds out! Don't forget to click beneath the video to view in high quality, and visit http://www.topgear.com for all the latest news, sneak peeks, exclusives and car reviews.
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maybe YOU are the shit and they just committed suicide...

wonder if your german spelling is better than his english spelling... oh wait, you don't speak german at ALL? tough luck dude.

yes they are indeed. cause us leet europes know its not just the electrical resistance of the metal... cause that would only divide the current into different amounts. the real reason is that the electrical charges repel each other... so in fact the current only flows on the OUTSIDE of the metal shell. he could easily touch the metal at the inside of the car without being harmed. the hint to keep his hands in the middle was just for safety reasons (to be completely sure. you know... germans :)

Don't you know anything about Tesla? Tesla used his body to carry 1 million volts!

would have like to've seen a close-up of the roof. i can't believe the paint did'nt fry.

what wud happen if the car electrics was on thow

that guy has balls of steel

ew its wronger than anal

you don't? Well then what do you use the exhaust pipe for? hahaha

You've obviously never heard of the maltians.....

i dont fuck cars you carfucker

Shit this was funny

Well... I had a Mercedes Sprinter Van (Badged as a Freighliner or Dodge in USA) that was next to a house that was struck by lightning and the van got struck too. Practically every computer or control module was fried. The engine controller, the trans controller, the gauges, the glow plug module, the batteries, The immoblizer module, the Timer module (RKE), the column mounted fuse block, and the ABS module. Only things that survived was the A/C controls, airbag module, radio and shifter module.

then you obviously dont know how to take care of cars

ive had a vw and my friend had one and both were shit so its 2 to 1 you lose

yeah thats why I have a 96 golf with a diesel engine that has about 300,000 miles on it and all I've ever replaced is the air filter

they're shit and unreliable

This proves that VWs are invincible

its a very simple physics principle ...as the lightning strikes..the car itself acts as a faraday cage ( as in electrostatics there will be no charge residing in any closed space)....simply tesing a car for lightning is absolutely unnecessary ..as the person sitting in the car will be protected for sure...as per the logic mentioned above ..and .the person can only b safe as far as he/she dose NOT touch any metallic parts in the car ..!!!

Hows the paint on the roof?

LMAO KILLED TO DEATH LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

he started to raise the "woltage" =)) that was funny as hell:))

It's not the Voltage that would makes you die it's the Ampere. With 1A you just die, but you can get 20.000V without having any problem...

Hammonds a real live wire

its shocking because its so powerfull and its just 10cm away from ur head