Post by Kasey Kagawa

In the interest of providing you, the reader, with quality entertainment (and boosting our page views), this is the inaugural post of our Video of the Week series, showcasing whatever bit of video footage happens to catch our fancy. And yes, there will be a short quiz next week covering this material.

This week, we will take a close look at the hidden and tragic threat of imagination in children. Specifically, when a child gets a little too involved in their particular fantasy. Observe this case study filmed by the Volkswagen Automotive Group. It clearly shows that this child is so committed to his fantasy of driving a car that shifts better than the 1960’s manual school bus his friend is clearly driving that he is driven to the edge of unconsciousness. Also, as hypoxia takes hold of his mental processes, he forgets that even the mighty DSG gearbox still pauses as it shifts from one clutch to the other, and begins to tragically simulate a CVT gearbox instead. Some among you may argue that they could have simply reshot the footage with the child accurately simulating the sounds of the DSG gearbox, which would have allowed him to actually breathe at some point during this ad, but some things are more important than accuracy in advertising, like the image of a child turning purple as he passes what seems like 15,000 RPM.

VIDEO: My gearbox is better than yours [Autoblog]