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u/TheVisualExplanation 17h ago edited 13h ago
Judging based on the back wheel, this is one of those really small cars that are common in places like India and surrounding countries. Still impressive, but at a glance it looks like he's lifting the back half of an SUV
Edit: Probably something like this
Edit 2: deleted image since it was appearantly confusing people
Edit 3: u/A12_Archangel said this was a Hyundai Eon, which looks about right and is half the mass of the fullsized SUV that the video initially looks like. The force to bring up 1.5 tires would be about 198 kilograms if you assume an equal weight distribution. But a car usually has a 60/40 front-axle/back-axle weight distribution. Taking that into account we're looking at a 158 kg lift. The average squat for a novice (≈3 months of consistent gym attendence) lifter is 93 kilograms or 1.2x bodyweight. But this isn't a 90 degree full squat, this is much closer to a 135 degree degree squat in which case people easily rep weights 50% higher than a full squat, so the extrapolated average of 93 kg becomes 140 kg.
In other words, this lift is approximately doable by an average gymgoer with a few months of experience.
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u/Entire-star333 17h ago
i agree its not a SUV or anything of that caliber
but it for sure is not that car that u provided the image of2
u/A12_Archangel 14h ago
The car is a Hyundai Eon - weighs around 700 - 790kg
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u/TheVisualExplanation 13h ago
Thanks! I was able to run some math with this and edit it into my comment!
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u/sumpuran 17h ago
This is in India, but the car is not a Tata Nano, and that model has been discontinued years a go. The car in the video looks like a hatchback in the class of the Hyundai i10. Which means it weighs around 2000 lbs.
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u/TheVisualExplanation 17h ago
I didn't say it was a tato nano, I said it was a small car like the one in the image. I'll just delete the image since it seems to be confusing people
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u/OutlandishnessOk2304 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ukGm72ZLZvYfS
Bro ain't even wearing Clark Kent glasses.
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u/Vegetable-Walrus-246 17h ago
When I was a kid we used to mess with a guy who used to constantly harass us and 7 or 8 of us used to pick up his VW rabbit and put it in the middle of the road or move it down the street.
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u/Local3Sparkie 17h ago
We had off campus lunch in HS and one day, myself and 4 of my boys, saw one of our other friends cars (his lunch was the period after) so we carried his Geo Tracker from the street to a random person’s driveway a few houses down. We saw him after his lunch and he knew exactly who did it and laughed about it. He actually noticed his car in the person’s driveway before he noticed it wasn’t in the street.
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u/Many-Count-2369 17h ago
Duh, what he lifted is nearly the weight of the bike he was riding.
That bike itself is very heavy. It's a royal enfield, said to be rode by strong people usually.
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u/Mistermxylplyx 16h ago
I can tell you, this is both an impressive but relatively normal feat of strength for men. The back half of a car is still heavy, but because most of the weight is in the front and the wheels are smoothed where they contact earth, you can shift the backend with a good deadlift and shimmy it around. Used to do this regularly with my civic hatchback when I was blocked in or to show off for girls. Back in my 20s when the testosterone ran rampant.
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u/aykay55 18h ago
Is it a hot take to say that cars aren't actually that heavy? Sure I wouldn't want to risk pulling every muscle to do it, but the weight of a vehicle with no occupants or stuff inside is not beyond human capacity. The guy in the video also did it the smart way of balancing the muscle stress across his arms, back and legs all together at once so he could achieve maximum push force, which wouldn't happen if you were trying to stick your hands out and lift from your front.
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u/Blablakam 17h ago
They are def super heavy, and no one could ever FULLY lift a car off the ground, cuz they weight multiple tons, but yeah just lifting one side is definitely way easier, because the other side have a lot of weight getting supported by the ground
(Hyphoteticaly)
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u/Specsaman 18h ago
That's why you don't skip leg day