What occurs while you put a four-wheel-drive car in reverse whereas driving? It’s a fleeting query that many might need requested whereas cruising down the highway, however none is definitely silly sufficient to present it a shot.

Within the title of science, nevertheless, the YouTube channel AutoVlog solutions the query utilizing a 1994 Ford Ranger with a guide gearbox and four-wheel drive.

Michael Vaim is a grasp of automobile destruction, having already tried to reply this query with a Chevrolet Prism. The distinction is that the Prism was simply two-wheel drive with an computerized transmission, so the Ranger ought to promise much more mayhem.

The Ranger resisted the primary try at destruction by merely going into reverse and spinning the wheels backward when the clutch is let loose. That try was solely in 2-wheel drive mode although.

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For the second try, the switch case is put in 4-low mode, Vaim will get the truck as much as 45 miles per hour (72 km/h), and the transmission is shifted into reverse. The obvious factor on the earth then occurs; there’s a complete bunch of grinding noises, and all the pieces breaks. New noises at the moment are popping out of the truck, together with a whine and a ticking noise.

The online impact is fairly anti-climatic, because the truck simply pops and breaks after which involves a cease. Precisely what occurs contained in the gearbox isn’t identified, however whereas the gear lever appears to work, the clutch positively gave out.

It’s all within the title of science, type of. Now we all know to not put a four-wheel-drive car in reverse whereas it’s shifting ahead. Didn’t we already know that? Nicely, now we double-know it.

This isn’t the primary time that the Ranger has been put by way of the wringer within the title of “what if?” Vaim has additionally examined placing Crimson Bull, tequila, and vodka within the fuel tank, and can seemingly topic the truck to extra abuse sooner or later.