Cant describe how happy I am that the series is coming on youtube.

The specific model of sports car? A Porsche 928.

The 928 was always one of my favourite Porsches along with the 944. Maybe it's just me but it seemed like Jamie and especially Adam were trying their darnedest to confirm this myth.

If only there was some kind of extremely simple aerodynamic effect that should have been obvious from the very first test set-up for the surfboard myth, such as if a foam board sent horizontally at high speed with a nose pointing down might perchance nose down in flight.

Meanwhile in 2020+: A 3D printer costs around 400 bucks. Can do everything you would have wanted it to. Good to know, technology has improved.

These episodes are always a treat

Great episode! Thanks

I'm always amazed what kind of equipment NASA lets the Mythbusters use, considering their reputation for breaking stuff and/or blowing it up.

Thank you glorious people behind this channel, this is our childhood.

Dzięki za odcinek. Tego brakuje mi dzisiaj.

To me, what's equally fascinating is the "weels" on that forklift truck. 38:06

The car I've always heard was the culprit of the aerodynamics myth was the Austin Allegro which had the aerodynamics of a brick whichever way it was going (and it was a crock to boot)

21:34 OMG how cute is that helicopter recording an areal shot.

According to Jeremy Clarkson, the 928 is an allright car. I'll take the man's word.

This is the only Porsche that Jeremy Clarkson doesn't hate.

29:02 spoken like a true engineer 🫡

Woah that's an early 3D printer, not seen any of that kind in a while

What they did not count is weight distribution, the reversed car has most of the mass on the front, leaving drive rear wheels slipping during start

I NEED one of those car jacks

31:31 "Hooper" starring Burt Reynolds, has a Chevy pickup flipped around backward. There's five minutes of the movie for ya.

Wouldnt it just be better to put the surfboard on a conveyorbelt that moved at the same speed as a car?

The 928 was really more of an 80's car than an 70's one.

Personally seen a surfboard come off the roof of a car in a rear end crash and go through the rear window of the car it hit, the driver was hit and injured by the surfboard but it didn't kill the driver.

It's not just the air resistance. Rolling resistance of the tires, tire pressure, wheel alignment or sticking brake caliper could cause one to be slower than the other

I'm not a mechanic or anything, so my thought was, could they not have just done changes to make the car drive in reverse? It is about weight distribution or perhaps to would be too hard to drive that way?

The catapult hook on the surfboard impacted the front of the roof frame stopping it from hitting the dummy.

Cool. A red sports car. I wonder what brand it is.

Would've been cool to see if the difference in aerodynamics actually increases with more modern (and hopefully better designed) cars.

This is such a scam. Buster lost his head and his car was hardly touched in the first crash of the surfboard myth.

The angle of attack matters a lot to the way the projectile will pierce a surface. The B crew is so stupid sometimes when they don't test things properly.

Surfboards in the 70s and 80s at least in Europe were A LOT more heavy, harder and had a thicker shell. Quite massive, when it comes to a stronger impact ! Even having increased the speed of the board can't compensate for a harder material and heavier board, which might not have broken apart like that light one they used, and also might not have deflected as easy on the windshield.. just saying..

I don't understand why they used a curved surfboard instead of a regular, straight one?

Wait a second…they don’t just tell the myths?!

They started off picking the wrong model for the myth. How did they think to not pick the "top 3" to give the process some validity?

I get the idea of the Porsche myth, but I feel the more flat end will create more drag than the more streamline nose

25:17 You see why this car is scrape.

Hello I think your problem was you had the surfboard upside down

if u turn a car with spoiler around u will have less drag from the friction to the ground

In the last test the windshield didnt stopped the surf board, but the metal part that was attached to the string hit the roof of the car

Ummm... couldn't they have just flipped the differential upside-down.....?

They destroyed the aerodynamics on the red 928 when reversing it and cutting out all the wheel arches leaving some gaping holes for the wind to grab onto.

i wonder if they considered that friction is another force stopping the cars and, as such, they would have to use brand new tires in both cars to make things fair

Not having arch liners in the reversed build wouldn't help aerodynamics

Did they call a porche 928 a race car thats like calling a cat a dog its a grand tourer meant to cruse att speed in luxury as far from a race car as you can get

Why do they call them K rails when they are clearly a Y | at 26:40 weight is no longer a constant between tests, since they had to add extra mass in the form of steel reinforcement, so the fuel efficiency is now irrelevant, they should have used a variable ballast, liek 10 kg water barrel,

Hang on that surfboard is not completely straight

they didnt say they put 2 cars infront

the stickers on the car don't help

Make sure Jeremy dosent watch this...

I can't believe they run with the mirrors backwards. Door mirrors are are huge drag makers as they are, but when you flip the body they are backwards towards the direction of travel so the drag is even worse. Maybe it doesn't matter too much under 60mph but still makes the test unvalid.

Kino

Why not use a datalogger for mesuring precisely the 0-60 times i.o their vague and inefficiënt method.

The so called surf board is not a surfboard in the movie it looks like one of those with sails whatever they are called.

leaving aside the fact that porsche engineers would be obviously not that stupid and the wind tunnel already showed it's better the way it's designed, there're still many considerations that might render the full scale experiment useless. firstly, the body reversed car was installed in a visibly lower angle of attack and any aoa different than zero would increase drag upfront. secondly, the wheelhouses are not quite integrated which might mess up with the outer flow and again increasing drag. thirdly, the whole cooling system wouldn't function in reverse which would mean less drag from there. btw many comments below talk about mirrors but although not insignificant, that wouldn't be a huge contributor. but as said, there're already a bunch of stuff (aoa, wheels, cooling) that might or might not balance out in the end and at the end of the day the experiment doesn't prove anything. base form ain't everything in aerodynamics anyway 😒

Hollywood science.

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Americans are so strange not wanting to name the brand of stuff since it’s commercial 😂 Hiding brand on clothes with duct tape and stuff lol But seeing a Porsche in reverse was excited 😂😂

24:49 the one piece is real

Who are the Mythbusters?

Bekokmmt man das durch den TÜV?

A Porsche? Never. Sounds like something Americans would say about "foreign" cars to discredit them to their peers... because Americans didn't actually make performance cars until recently... and that is including the Corvette, Mustang ect... they are not the same lol

I have a friend in calif was on the fwy a LG truck infront of her it was loaded w lumber one of the boards came flying back when thru her windshield n came straight to her right n thru the back seat..her son was strapped into his seat on the back right. The board missed them both but they were covered n impeded w glass pieces n jus bt the grace of God no one was hurt badly. No one was stopping..it jus flew backwards off the truck. The board was a long 2x4..

As a child/teenager i often realized some flaws about how they approached certain myths, today it's quite surprising how far off they often were, especially with automotive myths they often halfassed it. For example, using two supposedly identical old Porsche 928s might be correct, but no engine is like the other, not even in a brand new car, but especially after 25+ years. Then there are other obvious differences like tires, but also other internals like brakes, transmission, bearings and so on. At the time i also didn't quite realize how unpleasant Jamie was, working with him must've been quite difficult.

They forgot to flip the side mirrors 🤔 If the teardrop shape test should be fair the side mirrors should have been mounted so they don't make draft!

Does anyone has an update on the team members? What they are doing now? Are they any in other tv show?

this one should of been called advert busters i saw more adverts than the proper video

Did they have to pay if they said Porch ?

"Race-off"? Pretty sure it's just a race, but, y'know, been wrong before.

Why don´t drive the forward and the reverse car to it´s maximum speed? Oh, you got no Autobahn, to do that?? What a shame...

why did ruin so many cars

first

This is by far the most ridiculous and sad project they came up with, I think..A waist of a perfectly good oldtimer Porsche, it proves basically nothing in the end all'n all a total waist of car, time, effort and watching. Love the show a lot , for sure. They should let young boys get into the show

Maybe examine the dynamics of the surfboard BEFORE smashing 5, or however many cars... (I know this video is old, still stupid. And I also know it's for entertainment, doesn't make it less stupid)

Myth Buster at it again, ruining beloved cars. :(

Are they on tik tok? 😂

What's it with Americans and 'the bad guy'? When invading another country who's 'the bad guy' then?