Jeep Wrangler crashes window VIDEO

Taz · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:10 am

Link to video of Wrangler at NAIAS crashing window.

mms://wm.gannett.speedera.net/wm.gannet ... window.wmv

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:41 am

Where are the cops when you need one? He ran a stop sign. Oh wait, there is one right there at the stop sign in a reflective vest. He must be on the take.....LOL!

uvalax236 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:57 am

I LOVE IT!

papercut · **Joined:** Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:02 pm **Posts:** 16

Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark.

ManicMechanicJoe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:55 am

thats a nifty publicity stunt. I would have been more impressed if it drove UP the side of COBO but I will settle for through the side... :twisted:

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:57 am

At the end the guy gets out and acts like he just rescued 3 babies, 2 dogs and a cat from a burning building instead of just taking part in a staged event! :roll:

kevh · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:19 am

i think the last "ceo in charge for the moment" did the same thing to introduce the "new at the time" grand cherokee

Bri · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:35 pm

Given how much damage a sheet of glass can do, I'm wondering if they substituted that pane with candy glass for the event? If so, they did a good job of tinting it to match the rest of the building.

I suppose it could also have been safety glass (glass tempered to break into many small pieces rather than large chunks) without the center lamination of plastic to keep it bound together.

Major points for a dramatic entrance, no matter what the window was made of.

Guyute1210 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:47 pm

Please excuse the ignorance, but what is NAIAS and COBO?

NU ARTY BOY · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:26 pm

Guyute1210 wrote:

Please excuse the ignorance, but what is NAIAS and COBO?

It stands for the North American International Auto Show and is held at COBO Arena, Detroit's exposician center.

Myke · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:27 pm

That was pretty cool I guess, although I would have liked it to drive over a car or something.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:28 pm

I cant watch it without saving it to my computer, can anyone host it so i can save as? It wont let me from that link.

Myke · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:40 pm

Can't because it's streamed. (atleast from my knowledge of pc's you can't save a stream)

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:02 pm

ohh, didnt know it was streamed, my windows media is messed up, thanks though.

Neatus · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:37 pm

uhmmm, That was kinda lame. Just my opinion. I think I could have pulled that stunt of in my Saturn with dent resistant panels. I do like that new Wrangler though. The Rubicon comes with 32"BFG's Pretty sweet.

Ed · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:41 pm

I'm with you Neatus, the Jeep "mountain" wasn't half as impressive as I'd imagined it. Plus, it looks more impressive from here 'cos it looks like the overly-happy CEO bloke was driving. Sadly, I imagine it's a normal left-hand-drive US model Wrangler, meaning that he couldn't even drive his own Jeep. As you say; lame.

That new Wrangler's cool though, pity they couldn't have shown it off better.

Neatus · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:03 pm

Lol, I coulda made that whole entrance much better. I would have clobbered some trash cans and laid down some rubber with that six speed T-case. I would have broke the window at much less safe speed as well. At the end I would have come down the other side of that mountain!

2003KJ · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:55 pm

Neatus wrote:

I think I could have pulled that stunt of in my Saturn with dent resistant panels

LOL!!!

PLEASE do!!!!! I'd LOVE to see something like that!

ManicMechanicJoe · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:07 am

the new wrangler has fender flares that are removeable without a sawzall...there goes my weekend...

Ed · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:07 am

Longer version of the video here;
http://www.rockcrawler.com/reviews/jeep/wrangler_2007/naias_2006/index.asp

Check out the stupid chick they nearly run over in the lobby!

Jeep Wrangler crashes window VIDEO

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