*viral for the Renault Modus? (pull it off if you disagree, pyrex)

I enjoy these head-on-crash fifth gear clips.

The food crashs are from a Renault commercial to celebrate their top crash safety rating.

They "crashed" a baguette too - that did not explode of course

They helped a little with the Sushi and Bratwurst by inserting little fireworks though.

PS: part3 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZfB5sx6QAs

I was at the Naval Academy when this came out-- I had a Renault convertible, wore skinny ties, tried (unsuccessfully) to gel my Navy regulation hair into a flock of seagulls 'do... What a time that was!

The video just shows a pretty hostess and the show in Italian - ho hum.

What I found interesting was the information on the google video page (compare what's going on here with the rather "ho hum" Foley scandal in the States):

" Elisabetta Gregoraci began her career as a dancer for the Italian TV show 'Libero' before replacing top model Eva Herzigova for the ... all » Wonderbra campaign.

Salvatore Sottile was the powerful spokesman for the former foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, who leads the far-Right Alleanza Nazionale Party, and was a leading member of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition.

While intimately tied to the Savoy saga, more interesting to most Italians has been the discovery that - according to leaked transcripts of his conversations - Sottile, 60, arranged jobs for promising young television starlets in return for sexual favours.

Some of the sexual "concussione" (bribes) involved are alleged to have taken place in Berlusconi's personal office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome's equivalent of Downing Street.

The revelations emerging from the investigation eclipsed even coverage of Italy's progress to the second stage of the World Cup. Two of the women involved with Sottile have been named as Maria Monse and Elisabetta Gregoraci, the latter the latest flame of the Formula One Renault team director, Flavio Briatore. Miss Gregoraci, 26, was a beauty queen before she moved into television, where she now appears on prime-time game shows.

Elisabetta Gregoraci admitted: "I had sexual relations with Salvatore Sottile at the Farnesina and at Palazzo Chigi [the prime minister's office], as well as other places."

She and Monse, another game show hostess, have been identified as the "first class sluts" whom Sottile and a friend at the state broadcaster, RAI, were taped discussing.

In his conversations, Sottile boasted to his chauffeur and to his friends of sexual exploits with both women, and claimed that he had found them television jobs. The allegations have shaken the Alleanza Nazionale, and Fini has so far backed Sottile. He is said to have told the prosecuting magistrate John Henry Woodcock, a Somerset-born lawyer who works in Italy, that the conversations were just "male bravado."

But Woodcock is said to have countered by producing a statement taken from Gregoraci during a secret interview last month. She is said to have admitted: "I had sexual relations with Sottile at the Farnesina and at Palazzo Chigi [the prime minister's office], as well as other places." Elisabetta Gregoraci began her career as a dancer for the Italian TV show 'Libero' before replacing top model Eva Herzigova for the ... all » Wonderbra campaign.

Salvatore Sottile was the powerful spokesman for the former foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, who leads the far-Right Alleanza Nazionale Party, and was a leading member of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition.

While intimately tied to the Savoy saga, more interesting to most Italians has been the discovery that - according to leaked transcripts of his conversations - Sottile, 60, arranged jobs for promising young television starlets in return for sexual favours.

Some of the sexual "concussione" (bribes) involved are alleged to have taken place in Berlusconi's personal office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome's equivalent of Downing Street.

The revelations emerging from the investigation eclipsed even coverage of Italy's progress to the second stage of the World Cup. Two of the women involved with Sottile have been named as Maria Monse and Elisabetta Gregoraci, the latter the latest flame of the Formula One Renault team director, Flavio Briatore. Miss Gregoraci, 26, was a beauty queen before she moved into television, where she now appears on prime-time game shows.

Elisabetta Gregoraci admitted: "I had sexual relations with Salvatore Sottile at the Farnesina and at Palazzo Chigi [the prime minister's office], as well as other places."

She and Monse, another game show hostess, have been identified as the "first class sluts" whom Sottile and a friend at the state broadcaster, RAI, were taped discussing.

In his conversations, Sottile boasted to his chauffeur and to his friends of sexual exploits with both women, and claimed that he had found them television jobs. The allegations have shaken the Alleanza Nazionale, and Fini has so far backed Sottile. He is said to have told the prosecuting magistrate John Henry Woodcock, a Somerset-born lawyer who works in Italy, that the conversations were just "male bravado."

But Woodcock is said to have countered by producing a statement taken from Gregoraci during a secret interview last month. She is said to have admitted: "I had sexual relations with Sottile at the Farnesina and at Palazzo Chigi [the prime minister's office], as well as other places.""

see, that's exactly what happened dotdude. i went to edit it, the quoted material was missing, so i readded it. at which point it screwed up the entire page listing. and now i am unable to edit the title, because it shows as, "(input type="text" id="title" name="title" value="Renault F1 engine plays "My Country 'Tis of Thee"" size="60" maxlength="120" /)" with no editable text field.

(changed the >'s to )'s since that's a coding issue as well.)

I will also avoid the doublequotes in the future. a single quote (') should work fine though. obviously something in the coding.

It says to me: Renault F1 engine plays "My Country 'Tis of Thee"

Last I noticed, there was a problem with quotations when I edited a post once, but it was only a problem when I viewed it, not anyone else

I owned a Renault, it was the cheapest constructed car I ever owned.

I agree with you on the giant objects, Dag. Small object physics do get weird, it was a little disappointing in Two Towers when they busted Saruman's dam on the hill, looked so fake. Making small water behave realistically must be damn near impossible.

So....
1. The sausage is a bavarian (=>german) "weißwurst", it symbolizes bavarian car maker BMW
2. The sushi stands for Toyota, they´re becoming a tough competitior in germany
3. The wasa, just like gupo says, stands for Volvo cars of sweden.
4. The white bread obviously stands for Renault of France ;-)

And to finish the translation krupo started:
The last sentence says "the only car brand with 8 cars scoring 5 points at the NCAP crash test".

...and a comment by a auto-enthusiast from germany: The only reason why Renault has more cars with a 5 point scoring is that germans to not like the beeping noise that sounds if you don´t put on your seatbelt that HAS to be included in order to gain 5 points. So the german brands leave that away, i still would prefer to crash in a Mercedes rather than in any Renault ;-)