ouch! poor engine

[Ryan_04]

clip from the International British Motorshow 2008..
Vauxhall VXR8 being "shown off" ...

YouTube - VXR8 Engine Sound - IBM08

[darb]

geez are pommies a bit stupid or something.

Every time someone criticised (rightly) for free revving an engine (thats probably brand new, cold and not under load!) ... they answer with "well the guy is a salesman for Vauxhall so im sure its OK"

What, are they stupid? he's a salesman, he'd screw the frickin pooch if it got him a sale, that's his job, they'll on sell the car and wouldn't think twice about it.

I cant believe how stupid some people are. Never , ever thrash a cold or non loaded engine, or at least not excessively and pointlessly.

[GODSMACK]

I can understand revving it a few times, to show off its note etc, but why rev it continuously?

Idiots.

[Vulture]

What a farkin dickhead. If I was his boss I'd be having a stern talk to him about mechanical sympathy.

[steve_t]

Wow.... it just goes on and on and on :bawl:... it's quite sickening :spew:

[MickmeMate]

I dont see the point in doing that no good would come to that engine by doing that and it looks very new arent new engines not meant to be rev to the shit house at first?

[Darkrayne]

**Cringes** glad its not my car :|

[Djbarnstar]

It does not even sound that good anyway.

[Ryan_04]

yeaa makes me cringe too when u hear the thing held at such high revs for that long

[HSV Listy]

You have to ask yourself. But WHY. Does not prove anything and it just kept going and going. That is just stupid. Seriously stupid.

[WhiteLion]

And I thought that idiot from Top Gear Australia was bad, revving the Lambo cold!!

[F6Mauz]

I couldn't watch the whole thing. It was too painful to watch:spew:

[Blown 540]

Might aswell put a brick on the throttle , about the same intelligence as the idiot revving it.

Some poor prick will end up with that car,would have been better if the wanker had blown it up.

[CRAIG LS2 GD]

LOL that is just the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen, here is your 70 k car sir it only has 5 ks on the clock and that is on and off with transporting. Sir drives off salesman laughs yes stupid engine might as well be 100k old what a frikin tool....

[aedeau]

revving it for 2 mins straight seems a bit pointless, but will it actually damage the engine? I'm sure the factory run-in process is more demanding on the engine than that?

[Grommz]

I was well and truely over it 20seconds in..

If i was there id of gone and asked what was the point in that.. could of at least done drivebyes in it at speed would of been alot less harm on the engine that way.

[macca_779]

Ahh you guys are being poofs.. The ol LS3 loves it lol.. Glad its not my motor though.

[sparkplug]

"mate, you see that pedal on the right?? Just keep slamming it to the ground and we'll sell heaps of these"

I kept watching expecting something to break. Didn't see nething but I wouldn't wanna end up with that one.

[flyreels]

the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen, what a Tool

[iloveholden]

:bawl::bawl::bawl: I couldnt watch, made me cringe.

[RIDE:42]

If i was in the crowd watching you would have to step foward and bitch slap the clown

[jescam]

What a deadset moron! :flipoff:

Absolutely no reason for doing that! :confused:

[kart_racer]

revving it for 2 mins straight seems a bit pointless, but will it actually damage the engine? I'm sure the factory run-in process is more demanding on the engine than that?

NO.

Running in does not entail running to the limiter. And when they are running it in they put load on it, so it is actually not so bad to rev it out. Running in usually entails some low rev, low load running then gradually building up to some quick accelerations, but at no time will the engine hit the limiter or be run without load.

This guy is a clown and should never be allowed to touch a car again.

[RED R8]

Nice cold start too a little rattle then bang on the rev limiter and WOW that stock motor stock exhaust combo sounds so sweeet .....NOT. Sounds like a lady was behind the wheel (runs and hides)

[LS1-5.7]

And again we are firmly reminded that nothing good ever came out of the UK ...... You'd think they'd never seen a V8 before ! Oh wait, they haven't lol Not that any of them would have the skills to drive it ...... :1peek:

[macca_779]

And again we are firmly reminded that nothing good ever came out of the UK ...... You'd think they'd never seen a V8 before ! Oh wait, they haven't lol Not that any of them would have the skills to drive it ...... :1peek:

The Poms have produced cars with better and even at many a time bigger V8's than we ever have.. Ever heard of Jensen, Austin Martin, TVR, Jaguar, MG to name a few. I can tell you right now the average Pom knows how to handle a car alot better than the average Aussie.. Think wet weather experience. Hell the average Aussie these days doesn't even know how to drive a manual car. Poms all know how to drive stick.

[VXEXEC350]

sickening display

[SS346]

Deadset drop kick..

[Spoolin]

Gee..you guys really lack any form of confidence in the engineering qualities to cry over a bit of a rev...

[kart_racer]

Gee..you guys really lack any form of confidence in the engineering qualities to cry over a bit of a rev...

Over rev is not the same as free standing rev with no load.

[Spoolin]

But two minutes of it...get over it!

[feistl]

Another reason to bring back the death penalty.

That was so painful... I had to close it after 20 seconds

How could you do that? Although to be honest it probably didnt do that much damage. Its a brand new engine...

(I know its really a bad idea to rev that hard with no load, but ive seen engines take much worse punishment without dying).

[CHL]

LMAO at this..

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?]v=r0viVq1Vooc

[calais190]

It's ok when its an audi haha.. both retards...

[sparkplug]

wtf... has he fallen asleep with his foot on the gas??

[KPWISHN]

He could have popped the clutch in the VXR! That would have been worth all those revs. :)

If anything that display of stupidity would deter me from buying a car off them. Pretty dumb really.

As for that dumbshit in the Audi. I thought he was trying to gas himself at first. Drunk ass punk.

[NuffNuff]

damn that audi one is hilarious.. this one is just pointless

YouTube- Woman revs Audi R8 to limit! :P

[255-LS1]

at least her DRL look good lol

:hide:

[iloveholden]

damn that audi one is hilarious.. this one is just pointless

YouTube- Woman revs Audi R8 to limit! :P (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjII6CldEqs)

The first word in the video title after the - explains the problem here :jester:

[OMR346]

all these ppl sayin thats a good way to fuk an engine can go **** off. vauxhall engines are virtually bullet proof and can take that kind of abuse. altho the 2 mins is just overkill It must be ok, coz its a Vauxhall engine.