Well, it worked for the Schwimmwagen.

Love the reaction from the floating Fiat 500 driver who cried out to the guy filming her act of stupidity: “Excuse me, can you help me!” sounding rather irked and disgruntled that he was filming her moment of madness rather than swimming out to her rescue! 🤣

Terminal stupidity, a well known syndrome that affects many drivers when approaching deep water.

Was that an EV version?

​@@MattF340nope

Lol... was looking for this comment. Unbelievable

But they have their wipers on 😂

I don't think bow waves register!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So the side he came in is deceiving. And the water did rise during the filming/rescue. It was around 3.5ft at the time of entry/fail

The mindset of the idiots who buy these things is they can go anywhere: clearly not in this case:

a guy in a toyota land cruiser

Ford's never liked the damp.😂

He defo did mate. Front air intake it along the top left of the grill. And it slopes down into a. Lower airbox. Literally like rubbing a tap into the air box 😞

Absolutely, only around 400 miles on the clock too…

@@bengregers That's a terrible shame. Did he hydrolock? Was the engine badly damaged?

@@moragkerr9577 water was over the entire engine for close to 5 hours. And halfway up the steering wheel inside

Was new on the road this September

If it did get wet it would be in serious trouble. They are full of weak, sensitive electrics.

Glad you’re enjoying them, there’s an end of year fail compilation coming soon 👀

lol. I did cut the video short as I went in to help guide her out but the car & her were absolutely fine in the end 🙂

@@bengregers That's really good to know.

@@bengregers great you helped out I bet she was terrified at that point.

​@@bengregersah, so she just doesn't know how to reverse...

The car/boat confusion is puzzling?

It did. It arises 4 inches during the recovery. I was on tip toes for a lot of it 😂

Yeah this Ford rises really quickly.

More worryingly, they drive amongst us

I do, all the time. I can’t understand how some people make it as far as they do in life.

I honestly can’t think what’s going on in their heads … might as well try driving to France through the channel..

What I can't quite get my head around is WHY you keep going with this nonsense...!?!? ...it HAS to be some kind of weird, fetishistic perversion... previously unknown to medical science.....!!! .....you DEFINITELY need help.. whatever!! Still..I guess it's at least a BIT entertaining.....

Optional extras from factory

@@Discoveryjamie what goes in them though???

@@reverendodarn4295 it’s storage for their ego - takes a special kind of buyer to order the idiot boxes.

@@reverendodarn4295 it’s a £500 extra a ladder goes the other side. It’s just a lockable storage box tbh. Isn’t much room. They are an expensive box for me

Cheers mate😄👍

@@dsmithspecialisttransport2741 hahah that's you is it ? nice one ! I was wondering if you were on here

If I had a pound for when I hear that😂 daily trust me…

The Ranger is RE73UDN

He’s on ratedriver with the link to the video .Only two results and he’s the first result on google.

Grass

If I can see it, everyone else can FFS

It was written off ya donut 😂

They are already up mate on both sides 😂

Many have an emergency release. But more modern like Mercedes and this ranger is fully electronic. Once that’s busted. It’s stuck

My Hilux has a button beside the gear selector that enables you to take it out of park without the engine running, many other cars have a release lever secreted somewhere under the bonnet.

@@AJ-qn6gd your right many do like the land rovers n that too. Some just don’t mate. It would make pulling them out easier

I don’t think most people have the slightest idea of what an air intake is these days, nevermind where it is.

wow what an observation i wonder why

it the damage you can not see that the issue, 10 years time that car could be having all sort electrical issues if its not already needing costly repairs

@@EazyDuz18 Most importantly, they don't have air intakes. The basic problem that kills the ICE cars just isn't there on an EV. No cylinders, no compression. Also, all the electrical components are well sealed against water ingress because they have to be able to drive in pouring rain and through puddles. Also, the bottom of the vehicle is the flat battery and it's much harder for water to come up into the car from underneath, so they kind of turn into rafts. Still vulnerable to getting a soaking if the door seals fail, but if they get through in seconds they might be OK. And there might be other vulnerabilities that cause problems further down the line. But the Nissan Leaf is certified for 700mm which is 2 feet 4 inches of water. And there's a video of a guy drying out the interior of an EV that got caught in a flash flood where it was parked. It was in the water for 12 hours but had no mechanical problems. I would not personally care to drive into two feet of water in one, but if you were forced to, I think you have a much better chance of not coming to grief.

@@stevekenilworth I don't know that there's any evidence for that. I think if nothing happens fairly soon then they've probably got away with it. The car would throw up all sorts of error messages if there was an issue. I'd be most concerned about getting the carpets, the upholstery and the sound insulation soaked. That could be a real pain. I also wonder if there's an oil breather somewhere that could be vulnerable. But 30 seconds immersion for a car that's built to drive for hours through torrential rain shouldn't cause electrical issues. Bear in mind the Nissan Leaf is certified for 700mm, which is the same as a Land Rover.

water gets in a sits, rot rust if water cannot get out or drainage gets blocked you cause much bigger damage @@moragkerr9577

Yeah spot on mate. It’s next to the left headlight at the front. And even worse the ecu is practically cable tied to the brake resevoir 😂

Was a Ford demo truck mate a Ford employee/owner

We chose the engine mount due to the current lifting the strap off the tow ball at the rear and the distance of the pull was almost double. From the rear. We could feel and touch the 2 recovery eyes. But if we clipped them in with hands waders would have been under the water and filled up. Creating us to be heavy and risk getting pulled down the river. BY the current. It’s defo not the safest way. Or the first choice. But we had explored all other options. We didn’t want to pull using the wheel as the rear was locked up. And the front was steering ❤

To get to the other side.

@@trainman665🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿humour. He wouldn’t get that. 😂

So these new ones the intake is at the front grill

Toyota hilux invincible X 💯 never touch a ford ranger. Awful motors

@@ktmsports I would have a Hilux over a ranger. Defo. But not over my landy. The ranger visually looked stunning, but I want it to work over looks 🤣

@@Discoveryjamie reliability is everything. Especially as I use mine daily for work and towing

I couldn't work out if it conked or they just stopped?