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A great oldie but goodie!

These "engineers" didn't think they'd need snow tires the first time?

There's also a steel cable under the car. "Just a safety cable," say the apologists, "Bullsh;t," say I.

You don't spend big money not already knowing the outcome.

that was stupid.

I like the song they used in the background in the beginning.

This is soooooo bad. They clearly had a cable. Check out 2:01 to 2:02 for where they video edit out the cable and it magically appears for a few frames.

Why go to the trouble to edit it out? This is lame.

You could climb that hill in a 5 ton, 2 wheel drive truck with those studded tires.

In reply to this comment by joedirt:
This is soooooo bad. They clearly had a cable. Check out 2:01 to 2:02 for where they video edit out the cable and it magically appears for a few frames.

Why go to the trouble to edit it out? This is lame.

Well, I wouldn't want to do this 'without' a cable. Let's assume for the moment that this isn't fake. What happens if they get halfway up, then the car starts to slide backwards? Since it's a Ski Jump, it's made to have things speed down it and fly off. I'd hate to do that in a car (I think I saw that on Top Gear somewhere).

My guess is that the cable is a safety locking mechanism that prevents the car from sliding backwards. Note when the car fails to climb the ramp, I don't see it slide backwards much. I don't think there's really any another way to provide this safety measure. Well, at least without damaging the car and/or ramp...

@ant, that song is "Climbatize" by The Prodigy, from the album "Fat of the Land".

the snowtires song is "Narayan" from the same album.

I was thinking the same thing about the cable that you catch a glimpse of when the snow-tired car finally gets going, and then again when it reaches the top. I'd expect it's just a safety precaution. Otherwise the car would have made it without needing to resort to studded snow tires. I don't think it was "edited out", though - just hidden beneath the snow. You see it pop up out of the snow as the car gets close, and I think that's the black line you see behind the car from the aerial shots after it reaches the top.
I'd be curious what cars couldn't make it up the ramp equipped with the same snow tires, though.