TÜV is the German association that confirms road-worthiness every two years for all cars registered in Germany. They're known for being sticklers of their huge amount of rules.
Imagine seeing this come towards you on the Autobahn when the sun is setting and just getting blinded by millions of tiny glitter shit on a fucking car
They'll say: "You have parts sticking out that can catch pedestrians. Road certificate revoked. Try again after fixing that."
I had this happen to a friend, that removed the plastic covers from the doors of his audi, because the mounting points started to rust. He had to remove all of them or mount the plastic cover again.
We are talking about 5mm nibbles that were way behind the ouline of the car and rounded. You could only catch on those after you got smacked by the mirror, in theory.
It really doesn’t look bad though. Like yes, it functionally is the stupidest thing ever, but let’s be real, they probably aren’t ever going to drive it anyways. Plus they likely have about 10 more cars that would fit your definition of “looking good”, and this one is just made to “look different”
The owner didn’t do this though. He let the guy who manages his collection have free rein and do something with this car for Monterrey Car Week and this is what the employee did. It was supposed to be more of a prank on the owner.
While those are both true, I imagine these manufacturers put their designs through stream tunnels and find the best design and contours for the least resistance. Somewhere along the way if dimples made more sense, we'd have been seeing sports cars with dimples for decades.
The smooth bodywork is to try to keep the airflow over the car in a laminar state as much as possible. Laminar flows have less skin friction than turbulent flows, and produce much better effects on aerofoils. Turbulent flows (which is what the dimples of the golfball induce) have higher skin friction but flows around behind the body of the ball more easily. On the golfball this would reduce in an overall reduced drag (the car would behave similarly) however the turbulent flow cannot be controlled in the same manner to create downforce, which is far more important to the car.
So it seems that dimples would help if you don't need a spoiler
You're not going to see dimples on a production car because it would be expensive to produce, maintain and repair, though it might well be slightly more efficient
Man, this car is a marvel of aerodynamic engineering. It was designed and developed by a dude who has lots of experience in designing actual F1 cars. How in the world does anyone get to glue some shitty bling bling on and ruin it?
Man how tf does one manage to drive things so low to the ground?
I have yet to live anywhere flat enough for such a car not to get the shit banged out of the bottom or scraped up badly by potholes, speed bumps, or just a gentle incline between street level and entering a parking lot.
They come from the factory with adjustable suspension. In the video it is currently in “track” mode and thus it lowers the suspension quite a bit. Essentially they’re just using it to display what it would look like at the race track. Normal road height has enough ground clearance to go over most speed bumps.
Poor car designers must be thinking "We designed this car in cad and put it in a wind tunnel to optimize its efficiency and aerodynamic perfection, and now the end user has decided to undo all of that.... Are we a joke to you?".
If it was just a prop for a movie or something, I'd say it was pretty cool. But the fact that someone actually paid a lot of money for this as a personal car (doubt it gets driven much at all) is pretty gross.
Company spends hundreds of millions designing aerodynamic shapes.
Rich prick spends hundreds of millions coving it stupid lumps of carbon, negating all areoydynamic gains, and some.
How does a car with almost no ground clearance get over even a speed bump without massive damage to the undercarriage? Do they just have poor people on standby they can put on each side of the rise to ease the car over it?
Would also work in /r/horribletoclean
Good point
Many points
also r/TUVgore
TÜV is the German association that confirms road-worthiness every two years for all cars registered in Germany. They're known for being sticklers of their huge amount of rules.
Imagine seeing this come towards you on the Autobahn when the sun is setting and just getting blinded by millions of tiny glitter shit on a fucking car
They'll say: "You have parts sticking out that can catch pedestrians. Road certificate revoked. Try again after fixing that."
I had this happen to a friend, that removed the plastic covers from the doors of his audi, because the mounting points started to rust. He had to remove all of them or mount the plastic cover again.
We are talking about 5mm nibbles that were way behind the ouline of the car and rounded. You could only catch on those after you got smacked by the mirror, in theory.
No need to imagine, got blinded by chrome far too often already...
Somehow my first thought was a flock of pigeons flying over it...
Came here to say this
+50 damage against zombie hoards
-50 performance because of drag... worth the trade off I guess.
I mean in the zombie apocalypse when there’s cars obstructing the roads and no one to maintain the roads do you really need the performance?
Ofc you do just imagine there is something like a ramp in front of you...
Rich people don't have taste, that's why they pay poor people to tell them what looks good. When they try to wing it, you get garbage like this.
This screams "new money trash"
Alternatively “someone who is trying to claim they’re rich”
It really doesn’t look bad though. Like yes, it functionally is the stupidest thing ever, but let’s be real, they probably aren’t ever going to drive it anyways. Plus they likely have about 10 more cars that would fit your definition of “looking good”, and this one is just made to “look different”
I unironically love how this looks, it’s so sparkly 😭
I guess you were born to be rich
If I had a private island, this is what I’d be driving around there
Same, came here expecting DIWhynot but I guess not everyone is so easily swayed by excessive sparkles ✨🤷🏼♀️🤩
The owner didn’t do this though. He let the guy who manages his collection have free rein and do something with this car for Monterrey Car Week and this is what the employee did. It was supposed to be more of a prank on the owner.
Listen, this would be cool as a fun campy design choice for the right type of gay and right type of item.but not on this 😭
Stupid, but I like it in a weird way.
I don't hate it
I dont either since they wrapped it first right...... right?.... they didnt.... ruin the paint, did they?
Almost certainly, this was for Moneterey Car Weeks
One of us.
They do lots of bedazzled cars. Crystal Ninja is literally who you hire if you're rich as fuck and you want something covered in crystals.
Looks cool tbh
THE Edward Cullen car!
this is the car of a killer...
Probably fr tho
This has got to ruin the aero
Doesn't matter considering the owner probably isn't skilled enough to drive this thing any faster than 60mph.
Golf balls are dimpled and shark's skin is rough - you don't necessarily want a super smooth surface
I don't know when it's an advantage and when not though 🤷
While those are both true, I imagine these manufacturers put their designs through stream tunnels and find the best design and contours for the least resistance. Somewhere along the way if dimples made more sense, we'd have been seeing sports cars with dimples for decades.
I found this:
So it seems that dimples would help if you don't need a spoiler
You're not going to see dimples on a production car because it would be expensive to produce, maintain and repair, though it might well be slightly more efficient
Very sound reasoning. Thank you for posting that.
Weirdly enough, some hotrodders have been playing around with dimpling parts of engines.
Didn't Mythbusters test this one? I have vague memories...
Yup. Episode 127. Clean car vs dirty car. They covered a car with clay and then dimpled it to find out if it improved fuel efficiency. It did!
It depends on whether the surface is oblique or not
I don’t think this will ever be driven.. this would be insane to clean and just use would knock those gems off
Not in any meaningful way.
I honestly dont even hate it. Not my style and id never do it, but its not offensive .
Seems like a pain in the ass to clean, but if theyve got enough money for this car and this modification, they can probably pay someone to clean it.
More sparkles needed!! More!!!
If I had that car, I would just because I can
Looks kinda cool. But the hell I'd do that to any car.
Not practical in any way but I low-key love how it looks. It’s so sparkly! lol
Bella, it's car of a killer…
I wanna be the plumber who works in the car wash after that thing goes through, probably drops $100K in jewels into the drains every time through.
The only reason the person has that car is so others look at it.
"Why? Because I'm rich, bitch"
So sehen meine Sachen Zuhause auch immer aus wenn meine Tochter damit fertig ist. 😅
"I'm so stupid rich, the stupid rich are just stupid!"
Gets a incredibly aerodynamic car and bedazzles it
Ugly
Don't TOUCH the trim!
I would love to see the cost for regular detailing.
I thought cars couldn't legally have reflective surfaces like this🤨
Unless this 1 never gets driven, then I guess it's fine🤷
This is r/ATBGE , not diy
A textbook example of some people have way too much money …
Man, this car is a marvel of aerodynamic engineering. It was designed and developed by a dude who has lots of experience in designing actual F1 cars. How in the world does anyone get to glue some shitty bling bling on and ruin it?
Use every tool in the book to make a light sports car and then laden it with rocks
That thing has super advanced aerodynamics and an absolutely ridiculous weight to power ratio, and they fuck it up by sticking on a bunch of sparkles.
Not great not terrible
It should be a punishable crime to deface this car like this
Money ≠ Taste
Seems more like the opposite...
Finally a super car I want. I'd accept about anything covered in crystals.
Man how tf does one manage to drive things so low to the ground?
I have yet to live anywhere flat enough for such a car not to get the shit banged out of the bottom or scraped up badly by potholes, speed bumps, or just a gentle incline between street level and entering a parking lot.
They come from the factory with adjustable suspension. In the video it is currently in “track” mode and thus it lowers the suspension quite a bit. Essentially they’re just using it to display what it would look like at the race track. Normal road height has enough ground clearance to go over most speed bumps.
Poor car designers must be thinking "We designed this car in cad and put it in a wind tunnel to optimize its efficiency and aerodynamic perfection, and now the end user has decided to undo all of that.... Are we a joke to you?".
Those Poor Poor engineers....😭
If it was just a prop for a movie or something, I'd say it was pretty cool. But the fact that someone actually paid a lot of money for this as a personal car (doubt it gets driven much at all) is pretty gross.
Definition of fuck you money
"It's like meter-long dick: very cool, but absolutely useless"
Aerodynamics?
What even is that?
Probably a streamer who contributed nothing lmao. Crystal ninja? wtf who’s picking these names 😂😂
Looks remarkably cheap.
Kinda sick
The definition of uguly
That seems like a hazard to other drivers if the sun hit it just right.
Imagine cleaning bug guts off that surface
What’s with the Mercedes logo?
I think it looks cool.
The Cullenmobile
It's an Aston Martin Valkyrie not a chandelier
I feel like I would get flash banged by that on a sunny day
How much heavier is it?
Nice job. all these meticolously designed aerodynamics are gone
LOL
Company spends hundreds of millions designing aerodynamic shapes. Rich prick spends hundreds of millions coving it stupid lumps of carbon, negating all areoydynamic gains, and some.
How does a car with almost no ground clearance get over even a speed bump without massive damage to the undercarriage? Do they just have poor people on standby they can put on each side of the rise to ease the car over it?
How does this work when you need to wash the car? Especially in a car wash? Are they prone to peeling off?
The detailer nust charge $10k a go...
How are you supposed to drive a car that is 3-4 inches off the ground? Lol
Design stolen by Pagani? For the fist seconds I thought that must be a new Pagani
Turd glitter came to mind
So many haters on here lol
How much weight does this add? Just curious
How many do you think are on it? I bet it's at least a hundred.
imagine what you could do with all the money that thing's worth... I'll never understand
I actually love this
Reduces air resistance by disrupting the boundary layer. /s
Well at least it shines pretty
From far away it's passable, but up close it looks like Diamond Head's ball sack.
@Physicists does this end up working like dimples on a golf ball? Or do they need to be spaced perfectly for that?
This car is so ugly, even glitter can't make it better.
25% flies off on the first time it goes over 60 miles an hour
What a terrible way to ruin this car
Wait is this a rick roll?
Just don’t park it in the street in NYC.
This is the reason why we can't have nice things.
how beautiful it will be when crushed