audi and kaipola ski jump advertisiement - climbing an icy hill

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Me neither.....do not have a crane or chopper to put me there in the first place.....;-( Kind regards, Erik-Jan.

I seriously doubt that the hill is 25 to 30 degrees. Use an inclinometer and tell us the results...

Two inclinometers mounted. One to prevent me from rolling sideways and the other one for the driving direction or rolling backwards if you like ;-( Here they are:

regards, Erik-Jan.

And the round goes to Erik-Jan. Really Alan, I have climbed 45 degree slopes in my Jeep, and for sure my front wheels were actually on the ground and contributed to the climb. I don't bother trying it in 2WD, lol. It is just not that big of a problem with a capable vehicle. Tomes

"Erik-Jan Geniets" wrote

Interesting picture. I've never seen an clinometer of this kind, but I can explain how it works: Outer upper scale means up hill in percent (not grade), outer lower scale down hill, inner upper scale acceleration, inner lower scale negative acc. (braking).

I.e. calculate what slope is equivalent to 3m/s^2:

3/9.8 (1g=9.8m/s^2) = 0.306 (the sinus of the angle) gradient (in percent) is the tangens =0.32.

The words "gut - schwach - schlecht" (good-week-bad) are for indicating braking performance (on flat terrain). But of course not applicable for modern cars

Cheers,

Thomas

So I'm betting you were climbing a hill with a 20 - 30 *percent* grade...

Yes, also. Turacher Höhe in Austria, old Vulcano in Kärnten. Tarmac in the winter. Some snow/ice here and there. 23 percent. At the base off the mountain there is a road sign in German which reads "4 wheel drive car's only" Kind regards, Erik-Jan.

And on a 20 *percent* grade, your vehicle's weight is going to be pretty equally distributed on both axles.

On an 80% grade, the Audi's weight is going to be almost entirely on its

*rear* wheels.

I guess so with the engine in front. Erik-Jan.

This one?

That article was great. You can view the finished commercial at the

website.

I'll defer all the calculations to the mathematicians in the group, I can understand that 80 degrees is almost straight up so it must be 80% so semantics is probably what's being debated.

I would submit to you this is what marketing is all about, making the public aware of the product, generating discussion and creating an impression. With the several dozen posts, in multiple newsgroups it has generated, and the articles on how the commercial was made, IMHO this commercial has accomplished its purpose. A bunch of guys were talking about it at my work last week and I'm sure that wasn't the only place that discussion was taking place. How many thousands of advertisements are we constantly exposed to on TV, radio, the web, newspapers, magazines, and billboards that make absolutely no impact on us?

Just my 2 cents

(t>> I saw this advertisement from Audi on their second records on driving