S4 up Chilean mountain - with no tires? What?

[Jouko Haapanen]

The ski jump ad was filmed at the K90 hill in Lahti, Finland, and the cable
was there for safety measures.  The car also had some pretty special studded
tires and apparently some emergency anchoring devices hooked up to the
handbrake.  The drive up is legit.  Having been at the top of this
particular K90 hill I don't think I'd want anything to do with this
experiment...

Jouko Haapanen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Nas" <tnas at euronet.nl>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Cc: "Peter Berrevoets" <pjberr at home.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: S4 up Chilean mountain - with no tires? What?


> "Peter Berrevoets" <pjberr at home.com> wrote:
>
> >At the end of the clip and in the middle, it is clearly seen that the car
is
> >driving on the wheel lips(?). At the end light can be seen under the
wheels
> >and in the middle you see the wheel slice through some slush leaving only
> >two narrow tracks. Audi has not in my experience ever faked an ad.
>
> Hmmm... that 100q driving up a ski ramp was faked IMO- you can see the
> cable if you look closely. It's just a matter of it being a safety cable
or
> used to pull the car up... even with studded tyres, I think it's the
latter.
>
> Tom
>