Here’s the video, complete with a soundtrack from what I think must be Joe Rogan playing in the background, and some surprisingly low-energy in-car reaction shots after the action, in case you needed that element to fully appreciate the experience:
Did I already say holy crap? Because holy crap. What happened here?
Is there something going on with how the wheels are turned there, as the Mini merges? It looks like the wheels are pointed to the right, which, as you seasoned highway-mergers know, is the wrong way to turn to merge to the left. It’s tricky to tell, but there’s not much else to go on. Wrong steering input, and an overcorrection? The car itself is actually one that is known for good, nimble handling, and as a FWD, front-engined car, oversteer is not something I usually associate with the car, though it sort of looks like some extreme version of that may have happened here, as the Mini was merging onto the highway? Truth is, I’m not clear at all why this happened. The road looks pretty dry, I don’t see any obvious ice, but I suppose it’s possible there was a patch of something slick on the end of that on-ramp? Or the owner had just finished buttering those tires? The Mini looks to be a pretty late original Mini, if I had to guess a mid-to-late ’90s Mini Cooper, based on the big fender flares and slightly larger (but still quite small) wheels. Something like one of these, sans stripes and the extra lights:
They’re fantastic little cars, with long and rich racing and rallying pedigree, but that doesn’t mean they can’t end up spinning out of control like in that video. Amazingly, the little Mini manages to spin both clockwise and counterclockwise as it whips across the road. I’m happy no one was hurt, and, I suppose perversely, happy it was all captured on a dashcam, because it is a remarkable, almost balletic, event to witness. If anyone has decent, or, hell, indecent theories about what could have caused this, I’m all ears. Or, I guess, eyes.
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Watching the video, those are exactly the stereotypes of people I would expect to be listening to a podcast like that. The beard, the cutoff sleeves, the sunglasses, the tattoos, the beard…
The top paragraph is fine, but the second is one is an incredibly stupid attempt at humor. I’m not a fan of stereotyping anyone for any reason and let my guard down while looking for a quick and easy joke.
And on second listen, I noticed that the content of the podcast seemed merely cautionary about dealing with Chinese IP thefts and wasn’t anything outrageous, inflammatory or extreme.
“Juggalo witnesses insanity”?!??
given the giant tattoo on the arm of the guy who caught it on film…
Glad nobody got hurt and no damage to your ride.
That car sounds mental, good work on keeping it under control in general, glad to see it not get pancaked during that incident.
