# REAL Rally Car footage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628 "2025-11-06T15:16:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/1 "2025-11-06T15:16:02Z")

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A little Tik-Tok vid of rally car going airborne from the driver’s POV.

Is this a prank?

[Light tanks be like after hitting a rock #warthunder #usmilitarycombat #army #military#fyp#trending](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yPoaBhigqgk)

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/2 "2025-11-06T15:28:21Z")

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While I have no idea whether or not this is a fake video, ai generated videos are increasingly flooding social media:

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**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/3 "2025-11-06T15:29:49Z")

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I’m saying fake. I’ve seen lots of real rally footage that’s bonkers but that looks fake to me.

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**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/4 "2025-11-06T15:30:39Z")

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Is this a prank? Yes.

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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/5 "2025-11-06T15:39:53Z")

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It’s footage from a game called BeamNG.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/6 "2025-11-06T20:58:56Z")

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The tree rendering is horrible. Is this 2005?

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/7 "2025-11-06T21:16:25Z")

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Fake. Seen a lot of car crash videos and while the horizontal velocity can make a car tumble quite a distance I have never seen one attain that kind of vertical height.

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-rally-car-footage/1024628/8 "2025-11-06T21:48:34Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> The tree rendering is horrible. Is this 2005?

Yeah, when I saw it, I wondered if this is footage from a ca. 1998 rally video game. I can’t understand how people can be fooled by something like this, but that’s where we are now.