Has anyone ever been in a position where other people's crazy parking leaves a crazy parking space for you, and then when everyone else is gone you look like the crazy parker?
I remember 10 years ago, I had an intercultural training and we watched a funny video about parking culture. A german guy is parking his car, making sure not to bump the cars in front of and behind him. After he made it he leaves the car, checks the distance with a ruler and walks away. The french guy comes in, gets into the car, just bumps the german car behind him (of cause the alarm of the german car starts) and leaves the parking lot xD
Jesus fucking Christ I live in Italy now and someone already scratched my car on the back bumper in a parallel parking, you just can't trust south europeans with cars 😂
I remember a joke that everywhere around the world it's "Oh no, your car has a dent on it!" While in Paris it's "Wow, your car has ONLY one dent on it!"
@@hotshotsunnyzmy man, there's a video out here, i think in Madrid, where it's even tighter and the person spends like 5+ minutes just bumping back and forth. It's insane
You can tell this video is old by the lack of oversized SUVs. Who doesn't love those cars that are bad for the environment, need a lot of space and make traffic more dangerous. Sign me up 😍
I actually witnessed this same sort of thing when I was in Paris, amazingly enough around the same time as this video was filmed. Everyone else on the street was just walking past as if it were perfectly normal, not even batting an eyelid, except one couple who just happened to be Aussies like me.
@@SuperLn1991 I visited france in dec 2022 recently, my mom screamed when she saw someone did this parking in Strasbourg. She didnt believe me when I said it's normal lmao
I love how everyone is walking past him watching record this with the look on their face that shows which situation is more common than the other. 😂😂😂 "Touristes stupides"
My father told me in Paris don't use you hand brakes if you park on a flat spot so other can park more easily by pushing your car just a little out of the way!
Then you shouldn't leave the car parked in 1st gear too. But if I leave it in neutral, the car will roll, and probably move other cars who are also in neutral. I would never park my car in Paris like that. Rather use public transport. I don't want my car to get scratched because of some idiots who push cars.
I used to that in my country until they trapped me between 2 cars and couldn't even move, I had to leave the car there. Now I always put hand brake on.
If the transmission is automatic, then when parking it is necessary to switch to P, to neutral gear, the keys cannot be removed from the ignition lock. If you push the car, there is a risk of breaking the locking finger.
I remember back in 2012 on a school photograph trip to Paris, we stayed in a hotel rated 2 stars called "Hotel Altona" on Rue de Fauborg. Late at night after most people had gone to bed, me and a few mates all sleeping in the same room got up and went to the balcony, looked out to see a large long wheelbase silver van just parked literally SIDEWAYS across the junction opposite our hotel room window, fully blocking the junction. It stayed like that all night and even when we woke up at around 6:30AM it was still parked there.
@Edoc You are mentally challenged, im a car mechanic, parking brake wont stop a car from pushing you, i live in Finland i can guarantee you we care about safety then your third world country ever could
@@jadetorres2266 the guy he was replying to, as you can see from the name in the comment, deleted his comment. Probably talking about how its possible to push a car while having the hand brake on.
In the end she says « c’est bien c’est nikel » which means « good, perfect » 😂 Well the car behind has around 8cm of free space to get out. Must be bien and nikel for sure.
8cm is fine and perfectly possible to get out without damage. That's how most European drivers park, tight but without hitting another car. Just Parisians have to be idiots...
For anyone wondering. Cars in paris is like bicycle in netherland. Its not luxury, just tool of transport. You will often see people in paris bump each other car when parking, and its normal.
No, it's not. I'm French and I lived in Paris for 10 years. Hit my car and I'll knock your teeth out. But parking spaces are so hard to find that we often see this kind of ... inappropriate behavior.
can confirm. Ive been living in paris a oui 10 years or so merci. And sometimes I even hit the car out of habit even if I dont need to touch it to get out
@@lecochonmalefique If only scratches and superficial damage such as these didn't cost you an arm and a leg in car value when you wanna sell it later. Cars are just a huge money sink.
@@Nickoboss29 u got that from just that? I mean u'r right. I hate everything about cars, especially the effect they have on city street design, endlessly disadvantaging and limiting pedestrians. But I didn't actually say that in my original comment at all. Cars have their shiny surface which is nothing but an easily dented hull with paint. Both of which cost so much to repair. I'm just wondering if there's a way to make scratches not such a big deal. At the moment the average person gets a panic attack when they see a potential scratch on their car. That ain't healthy mentally right?
@@Broockle OK most scratches on cars are only on the clear coat you verify this by spraying water on a scratch. If when you cover a stratch in water it disappears then you only have a clearcoat scratch meaning the actual paint is not affected. A clearcoat scratch can be removed with just polish if its light and even some bigger scratches can be sanded away and then polished over and waxed. Its suprisingly easy to do even if you suck at DIY ChrisFix gives great advice when it comes to doing this. Only primer scratches are a real bid deal. Also this clearcoat repair applies to fogged or hazed headlamps too. I restored the headlights on Mums MK5 Golf they were awful massive fogging and they were 90% fixed after sanding, polishing and waxxing them she drove around for 1 week thinking her full beams were on at night.
I watched an episode of Top Gear making fun of French people's parking, and I thought obviously this can't be true. I guess they really do park like that xd
I'm Polish and that's a nope for me. I'll remember not to go to Paris by a car. I was also shocked seeing similar things in Milan. While using a car in a different part of Italy I parked the car on the parking spot right next to a crossing, just in case.
Parisians used to leave their handbrakes off when parking (at the time when they were still manual ones) exactly for that reason. So that the cars could push each other without too much damage to their bumpers.
Well you're not European using the word E-brake....and he clearly said Parisians....you sound American. In Paris people leave the handbrake off all the time, that's why the silver Renault moved so easy....not in gear and no handbrake applied.
I know it’s not a bad thing to do that over there but imagine you are driving a nice car that’s also expensive. You can’t park it anywhere on the street hahah
I'm french and honestly, if you live in a city in France you'd better drive a car that you don't care about. You can have a nice car in the country side no problem though.
"Now if I was in my car and I'd look at that space and go, "That's too small", and I'd go find another. But that's not what a French person would do" -Richard Hammond
When I was learning to drive, my dad told me: when you are parking in a city on level ground, do not apply the hand-brake, so when other cars need to park in a tight spot and bump your car, it will easily roll out of the way, instead of breaking. Not in France, but same principles. And leave it in neutral, of course.
@fp6343 Maybe I am missing your point, but if you don't apply the hand-brake with the intention of allowing your car to easily roll, do you also mean leave it in neutral?
@@cmmartti My manual car rolls away just from the wind in neutral. i dont know about newer cars, but on older cars you could engage drive and there would still be no complete lock between crankshaft and wheels because of the converter. this way the car can still be moved around but it wont roll off. you could achieve this by just slightly pulling the handbrake tho 😅
@@notthestig. yes, that's correct. No handbrake, in neutral, the only thing I do is I turn the wheels a little bit towards the pavement, so nobody can push the car to the corner and potentially into a position where it would block traffic. It can roll maybe a car length before being stopped by the kerb.
In Italy it's even more allowed( at least in the past), but imagine doing that in Germany, Holland or Flanders... People would chase you like crazy with their insurance papers to have you pay the small scratch on their bumpers...
@@BubbenKopp if you do the parking manoevre slowly it should not damage the car you are bumping. (except a scratch, but that not 'destroying' the car) Imagine being an Italian/Frenchman and wanting to park like you always do, in your own city, and then suddenly some entitled German/Dutchman starts shouting at you and waving insurance papers. You did not ask him to come over, he can go back to his own country and parking culture anytime he wants :)
If the scratch is almost invisible and does not damage the bumper, you should not pay the scratch if you hit a car. If there's functional damage, it becomes a whole other story.... Imaging the following case: a rich Porsche driver has his bumper scratched in a parking space , this could cost up to 3000 euro just to fix an almost invisble scratch. And the insurance of the person that scratched the car, usually does not pay the first 1000 or 1500 euro (franchise) So a young or poor person could get in to serious financial trouble for accidentally slightly touching a rich guys car... Obviously that's not how the world works, in this case (in most countries) you don't have to pay the scratch.
This is what i dont get. Typical behavior of a materialistic society (i live in Germany, have a car, but i think that it is overrated. A car is at the end of the day an object of utility ("Gebrauchsgegenstand") and it is understandable, yet ridiculous how scratches are considered. Sometimes even more than human/animal life...
Correct me if im wrong, when parking in france you are not supposed to applied your handbrake and ensure its in nuetral. Cos the other driver need to nudge your vehicle most of the time when they are trying to park either in front or behind you.
People forget. that is what bumpers are for, bashing back and forward to get your car in the space. It is standard pracrice in France and Italy. Bumping your way into a space. Visit Rome, and every car has the bumpers askew and scored to hell. Even a brand new car lasts a few days before the bumpers are in pieces. My buddy who was a Continental HGV driver. took me on his road trip into France. We hit these local roadworks in a small French Town and the Artic couldnt move. The local gendarme came along and guided us out. There was a small 2CV parked illegally. The Gendarme motioned to reverse the lorry and my buddy gestured towards the car he was going to hit. The Gendarme made it known my buddy had to obey his hand signals. No kidding the trailer pushed this 2CV into a wall and it folded diagonally. My buddy was able to get out of the tight spot and the gendarme shrugged his shoulders.
Bumpers are definitely NOT for bumping other cars by purpose. They are there if an accident happens. I don't know how are you comfortable with destroying other peoples property.
brit here, it is possible to do this without any damage as long as 1> the drivers dont engage parking brake (or auto's leave it in neutral) and 2> you are gentle enough not to bump the bumper, BUT everyone needs to drive AND park like this otherwise it wont work
@@matthewlai9892 lol I’m jk if it works it works. Here parking in dense NYC I just had to buy a shock absorbing BumpShox rubber license plate cover for the front and BumpTek bumper extension for the back to avoid any scratches on my new Honda Civic. I don’t push people back like this guy did but I do like to squeeze into tight spots if necessary if I know my car will fit
As a Frenchman I don’t even understand why people are surprised or shocked to see this. Normal parking for any person living in Paris, Lyon, Marseille or any French town really
Problem is bumpers are not what they used to be. Up until the 90's, they used to be sturdy, black plastic (or even metal). Nowadays it is flimsy, painted plastic which gets scratched with every ever so slight contact with other objects (let alone another car).
@@ewmeneither I remember when I was a kid in Canada, we were leaving the indoor swimming pool in two cars, and my friends dad driving our car said "watch this" and drove about 2 mph into the car in front to scare his kids. That was also his car. Back then cars had big external steel and rubber bumpers.
In fact, yes we did have parking sensors and cameras. I have a 1993 BMW and it had optional parking sensors in the front and rear. Many cars before that had parking sensors etc.
You can't find many exotic cars in France, you'll be viewed as bourgeois, common people prefers bike, and France is active at making bike roads than car roads.
I’m French, I thought you were filming the French civisme of the 0:01 dog walker who picks up his dog’s poop on the sidewalk.💩💩 Text translated by Google translation
Leave your car blocking the road? They've figured out the most efficient way to park it. Those who pour money into flashy cars park in paid cctv monitored parking lots
This is actually standard, if you see, the parking brake of the others cars are not pulled, so they can be “adjusted” in position. By the way this does not cause any! damage
I like how the people are walking by like, "are they really filming a standard park job?"
As a Frenchman, I don't understand what is surprising in this video
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@@FreeZhom Si tu vois pas le soucis, ne gare pas ta voiture vers la mienne... ^^'
@@FreeZhom as an american thats fascinating to me because here there would have been a fight lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇨🇵
A Parisian once told me 'that's what bumpers
are for'
so, fists are also there for fisting you? bumpers are there for accidental chocs not for touching other cars in purpose.
@@YBehri Imagine not driving an old baguette car in the old baguette city. You're just asking for trouble at that point, lol.
@@YBehri The name is BUMPERS
It's in one of Godard's movies too :p
@@YBehri That only shows how silly varnished bumpers are. There is a reason why these things are called bumpers.
Richard Hammond brought me here. 🤣
Ahah same thing here
Same
lol, me too haha
Same
Lol same
Has anyone ever been in a position where other people's crazy parking leaves a crazy parking space for you, and then when everyone else is gone you look like the crazy parker?
Most relatable comment regarding driving/parking I've read in quite a while really!
Yep. Women drivers and guys with useless big pickup trucks and that one foreigner with the Benz
Haha, yes.
I'd usually keep looking for another bettet space for exactly that reason, unless no other choice.
Lmao yah, dude was double parked so when I parked next to him I was double parked. Then he leaves and I end up on a snapchat story
I remember 10 years ago, I had an intercultural training and we watched a funny video about parking culture. A german guy is parking his car, making sure not to bump the cars in front of and behind him. After he made it he leaves the car, checks the distance with a ruler and walks away. The french guy comes in, gets into the car, just bumps the german car behind him (of cause the alarm of the german car starts) and leaves the parking lot xD
I think this is the video ua-cam.com/video/Z1de1qa0AZM/v-deo.html
Hahahaha thats good shit i want to see it as a german 😂
that's something very similar ua-cam.com/video/Z1de1qa0AZM/v-deo.html
I think you mean this vid:
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Jesus fucking Christ I live in Italy now and someone already scratched my car on the back bumper in a parallel parking, you just can't trust south europeans with cars 😂
I remember a joke that everywhere around the world it's "Oh no, your car has a dent on it!" While in Paris it's "Wow, your car has ONLY one dent on it!"
You don't make dents if you bump very slowly and then just push gently
A few car rental companies in germany won’t allow you to drive their car to france because of this.😂
As they should. Wtf is this?
@@hotshotsunnyzmy man, there's a video out here, i think in Madrid, where it's even tighter and the person spends like 5+ minutes just bumping back and forth. It's insane
@@nurcirino😂😂
@@nurcirinoSouthern Europe....smh
You can tell this video is old by the lack of oversized SUVs. Who doesn't love those cars that are bad for the environment, need a lot of space and make traffic more dangerous. Sign me up 😍
Ricard Hammond was not exaggerating.
That's why I'm here lol
@@maxcondra4991 same
He’s on to us boys watch out
@@maxcondra4991 same
Me too
Finally, a tutorial where they go straight to the point
I actually witnessed this same sort of thing when I was in Paris, amazingly enough around the same time as this video was filmed.
Everyone else on the street was just walking past as if it were perfectly normal, not even batting an eyelid, except one couple who just happened to be Aussies like me.
because this is perfectly normal to us, I also live in France, another city and it's just regular parking, everyone can do it.
@@SuperLn1991 Yeah but the abnormal part about what I witnessed was how many times the other car was hit during the process
@@mattthomson7590 it's not _hit_. It's pushed slowly.
@@SuperLn1991 I visited france in dec 2022 recently, my mom screamed when she saw someone did this parking in Strasbourg. She didnt believe me when I said it's normal lmao
@@SuperLn1991 I'm taking a personal note that I should never parallel park in France when driving over from the UK.
I love how everyone is walking past him watching record this with the look on their face that shows which situation is more common than the other. 😂😂😂 "Touristes stupides"
never lose that sense of humor of yours, buddy😂😂😂
Ahhh, French people 😂😂❤
In America if you touch cars bumpers the car alarm rings and if the owner saw it they’d call the insurance company.
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Facts then your insurance rate goes up and they go rent a car for a week to get the bumper painted
I've definitely parked by touch in America. It's fairly normal in cities.
that happens in most countries
Yeah of course. Because that's how it works.
My father told me in Paris don't use you hand brakes if you park on a flat spot so other can park more easily by pushing your car just a little out of the way!
wish everyone did that
Yeah I bet people just push peoples cars into shit on purpose
Then you shouldn't leave the car parked in 1st gear too. But if I leave it in neutral, the car will roll, and probably move other cars who are also in neutral. I would never park my car in Paris like that. Rather use public transport. I don't want my car to get scratched because of some idiots who push cars.
I used to that in my country until they trapped me between 2 cars and couldn't even move, I had to leave the car there. Now I always put hand brake on.
If the transmission is automatic, then when parking it is necessary to switch to P, to neutral gear, the keys cannot be removed from the ignition lock. If you push the car, there is a risk of breaking the locking finger.
Gotta love the end of the video
"Là c'est bien?
- Nickel!"
*Handbrake sound*
🤣👍 as a German I am already sweating wet at the thought of having to travel to Paris by car
😂
Same here 😂😭
Every summer you can hear Germans screaming all over France:
" kan ve exchange inzurance details bitte? I tzink you have hit my auto, sir!"
Rental is an option 😮
@@baardagaam 💀💀💀💀
I remember back in 2012 on a school photograph trip to Paris, we stayed in a hotel rated 2 stars called "Hotel Altona" on Rue de Fauborg. Late at night after most people had gone to bed, me and a few mates all sleeping in the same room got up and went to the balcony, looked out to see a large long wheelbase silver van just parked literally SIDEWAYS across the junction opposite our hotel room window, fully blocking the junction. It stayed like that all night and even when we woke up at around 6:30AM it was still parked there.
Hahaha, that's a great memory to have man
Sheldon: A car length is not a standardized unit of measure. 😂😂
In Germany it is
Grand tour anyone?
Yup!
hahaha. me too. i guess they werent,bullshitting
Yessir
F**k... Its true...
Imagine having a Buggati and staying in Paris for one month.
*Baguetti
*New Objective: Survive*
In this case, you have a parking place in the Ritz hotel, the clerk will park it in and you can get to the Rue de Rivoli by foot.
Top G would not allow this
No one in their right mind is street parking a Bugatti, though
Ah. Good ole Parisian parking. May this culture never die 👍😂
Very good 👏👏👊
it died since 2015.
Oh no, I hope it dies
In my country if you touch someone's bumper they are probably going to beat u up or at least ask for the repair money
@@alidurrani4645 i think its like that everywhere lol. Just the owner of the car in the video wasnt there when it happened i bet
Notice how the car behind doesn't have it's hand brake on. Apparently it's an unspoken rule
No, it's just a large number of idiots living in the same place.
@Edoc You are mentally challenged, im a car mechanic, parking brake wont stop a car from pushing you, i live in Finland i can guarantee you we care about safety then your third world country ever could
@Edoc uhh why did you say that? did you even read the comment your responding to?
@@jadetorres2266 the guy he was replying to, as you can see from the name in the comment, deleted his comment. Probably talking about how its possible to push a car while having the hand brake on.
Its has the brake on, just not totally. And surely not in gear.
In the end she says « c’est bien c’est nikel » which means « good, perfect » 😂
Well the car behind has around 8cm of free space to get out. Must be bien and nikel for sure.
8cm is fine and perfectly possible to get out without damage. That's how most European drivers park, tight but without hitting another car. Just Parisians have to be idiots...
For anyone wondering. Cars in paris is like bicycle in netherland. Its not luxury, just tool of transport. You will often see people in paris bump each other car when parking, and its normal.
A bit exaggerated haha
No, it's not. I'm French and I lived in Paris for 10 years.
Hit my car and I'll knock your teeth out.
But parking spaces are so hard to find that we often see this kind of ... inappropriate behavior.
@@RafaleJCWYou are not a true Parisian lol, but I totally agree with you
can confirm. Ive been living in paris a oui 10 years or so merci. And sometimes I even hit the car out of habit even if I dont need to touch it to get out
I thought the Grand tour guys were joking... they were not.
there is a certain elegance and efficiency around this system tho
The elgance of are just plastic and metal sutff nothing to get so mad if is a little scratched, is what's meant to be for.
@@lecochonmalefique
If only scratches and superficial damage such as these didn't cost you an arm and a leg in car value when you wanna sell it later.
Cars are just a huge money sink.
@@Broockle ok but some cars are rewarding in terms of experience... guess you're not a car guy... you won't understand...
@@Nickoboss29
u got that from just that? I mean u'r right. I hate everything about cars, especially the effect they have on city street design, endlessly disadvantaging and limiting pedestrians.
But I didn't actually say that in my original comment at all. Cars have their shiny surface which is nothing but an easily dented hull with paint. Both of which cost so much to repair.
I'm just wondering if there's a way to make scratches not such a big deal. At the moment the average person gets a panic attack when they see a potential scratch on their car. That ain't healthy mentally right?
@@Broockle OK most scratches on cars are only on the clear coat you verify this by spraying water on a scratch. If when you cover a stratch in water it disappears then you only have a clearcoat scratch meaning the actual paint is not affected. A clearcoat scratch can be removed with just polish if its light and even some bigger scratches can be sanded away and then polished over and waxed. Its suprisingly easy to do even if you suck at DIY ChrisFix gives great advice when it comes to doing this. Only primer scratches are a real bid deal. Also this clearcoat repair applies to fogged or hazed headlamps too. I restored the headlights on Mums MK5 Golf they were awful massive fogging and they were 90% fixed after sanding, polishing and waxxing them she drove around for 1 week thinking her full beams were on at night.
I thought he is a pro but actually he is pushing it 😂😂😂
I watched an episode of Top Gear making fun of French people's parking, and I thought obviously this can't be true. I guess they really do park like that xd
My mom told me about this as a kid. I couldn't believe it. It's a real thing!
I'm Polish and that's a nope for me. I'll remember not to go to Paris by a car. I was also shocked seeing similar things in Milan. While using a car in a different part of Italy I parked the car on the parking spot right next to a crossing, just in case.
In Italy is rare... it can happen, but it s not the standard.
are you dumb the car have nothing after this
I love the ladies at the end:
- Am i good ?
- youre perfect !
You can't do that with an automatic ;)
(some people park their automatic in neutral so other can push them though, not kidding!)
cant take that key out tho
@@6lik6 yes you can lol
@@6lik6 I can take my key out in drive
@@changedpace9169 Must be a Peugeot then
@@ashrayspin You silly🤣
I like how the guy literally just pushed the car behind him like "my guy you’re in the way, get out" 😂
Parisians used to leave their handbrakes off when parking (at the time when they were still manual ones) exactly for that reason. So that the cars could push each other without too much damage to their bumpers.
To move car like that, it should be in neutral gear.
bro thats fake, we never leave the e-brake off
You're saying shit men
Well you're not European using the word E-brake....and he clearly said Parisians....you sound American.
In Paris people leave the handbrake off all the time, that's why the silver Renault moved so easy....not in gear and no handbrake applied.
@@yanceyboyzworks as long you have a manual gearbox, can't even turn my automatic car off in neutral.
Yes. I saw this in Paris. The French people park in such a peasant way.
Back when cars had real bumpers we did that in the states too
And they very generously left the Citroen behind with a full 3 inches of manoeuvring room
O no, the hand brake sound at the end 😂😂
my thoughts
ordinary day in Paris (even the guy removing his dog's "gift" from the sidewalk)
Just imagine the anxienty that parking assistance system must have had
Richard Hammond's parallel parking video brought me here 😂
Richard Hammond really taught us to park in France 😂😂😂
I find that bit way funnier now 😂
@@brycie97ful yep
@@brycie97fulI was 100% sure it was just satire, that French people couldn't be that much careless with cars. Apparently I'm wrong
Another day in Paris.
Next Round: The white minivan trying get out.
I know it’s not a bad thing to do that over there but imagine you are driving a nice car that’s also expensive. You can’t park it anywhere on the street hahah
I'm french and honestly, if you live in a city in France you'd better drive a car that you don't care about. You can have a nice car in the country side no problem though.
People dont do this to expensive cars, imagine they get caught cost them an arm a leg and 6 months of heating
Why should a car be dent free?
@@krunkle5136Because people take pride in their cars and don't want to look like a slob
The legendary 206 being in the frame, being everywhere.
205
the guy picking up after his dog is the actual sensation in this video!
The most amazing and miraculous part of the video is the guy picking up the poo, something I've never once seen in France.
I like how people looked weirdly at you filming in the past
its stil weird to film a lot on the street imho.
I'm so goddam impressed by this.
yup its common!majority of the cars in the city has scratch marks on the bumpers or sides...
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This woman is really helpful
That’s why citroen made cars like the Cactus with soft pads on the sides and large flexible bumpers…. The French take the word bumper very literally…
In America you could have the crappiest car on the road and still get upset if someone bumps you while parking
I can respect actually making use of the intended purpose of a bumper. I mean it has that name for a reason.
"Now if I was in my car and I'd look at that space and go, "That's too small", and I'd go find another. But that's not what a French person would do" -Richard Hammond
The French put their bumpers to good use.
I guess when theres no space, they make space 😂
When I was learning to drive, my dad told me: when you are parking in a city on level ground, do not apply the hand-brake, so when other cars need to park in a tight spot and bump your car, it will easily roll out of the way, instead of breaking. Not in France, but same principles. And leave it in neutral, of course.
unfortunately this is not possible with a manual car...
@HannyDart how is this is possible with an automatic?
@fp6343 Maybe I am missing your point, but if you don't apply the hand-brake with the intention of allowing your car to easily roll, do you also mean leave it in neutral?
@@cmmartti My manual car rolls away just from the wind in neutral. i dont know about newer cars, but on older cars you could engage drive and there would still be no complete lock between crankshaft and wheels because of the converter. this way the car can still be moved around but it wont roll off.
you could achieve this by just slightly pulling the handbrake tho 😅
@@notthestig. yes, that's correct. No handbrake, in neutral, the only thing I do is I turn the wheels a little bit towards the pavement, so nobody can push the car to the corner and potentially into a position where it would block traffic. It can roll maybe a car length before being stopped by the kerb.
In Thailand, people parked in tight spots often leave their cars in neutral so they can be rolled a little to make room.
Absolute genuine parking process in Paris.
Drivers in Brooklyn know to not do that because they prefer to stay alive. It's a great incentive to keep looking for another spot.
In Italy it's even more allowed( at least in the past), but imagine doing that in Germany, Holland or Flanders...
People would chase you like crazy with their insurance papers to have you pay the small scratch on their bumpers...
Understandable. You dont pay thousends of euros just for some idiot to destroy it.
@@BubbenKopp if you do the parking manoevre slowly it should not damage the car you are bumping.
(except a scratch, but that not 'destroying' the car)
Imagine being an Italian/Frenchman and wanting to park like you always do, in your own city,
and then suddenly some entitled German/Dutchman starts shouting at you and waving insurance papers.
You did not ask him to come over, he can go back to his own country and parking culture anytime he wants :)
@@baardagaam A scratch is a damage to the car! And especially nowadays its very expensive to fix scratches.
If the scratch is almost invisible and does not damage the bumper, you should not pay the scratch if you hit a car.
If there's functional damage, it becomes a whole other story....
Imaging the following case: a rich Porsche driver has his bumper scratched in a parking space ,
this could cost up to 3000 euro just to fix an almost invisble scratch.
And the insurance of the person that scratched the car, usually does not pay the first 1000 or 1500 euro (franchise)
So a young or poor person could get in to serious financial trouble for accidentally slightly touching a rich guys car...
Obviously that's not how the world works, in this case (in most countries) you don't have to pay the scratch.
This is what i dont get. Typical behavior of a materialistic society (i live in Germany, have a car, but i think that it is overrated. A car is at the end of the day an object of utility ("Gebrauchsgegenstand") and it is understandable, yet ridiculous how scratches are considered. Sometimes even more than human/animal life...
This can be an encouragement to walk or take public transport. Same in NYC.
I would be so afraid 😨 to park my car in that country, so afraid and all the bad scenarios going through my head as well.
@@GladiaSoloRetro well I'm glad I'm not there but I want to go Paris someday and try there foods.
Now I understand why they designed C3 Cactus.
Being a guy from Delhi, I can say that's really impressive.
Lovely handbrake at the end without the disengage button depressed as well. Ratchety click to say, 'job done'
I remember my dad telling me about this when we visited France one time. It‘s still crazy to actually see it
Correct me if im wrong, when parking in france you are not supposed to applied your handbrake and ensure its in nuetral. Cos the other driver need to nudge your vehicle most of the time when they are trying to park either in front or behind you.
Funny how he pulled the handbrake at the end?! 😂
Have you ever driven a manual?
@@TsarKnots7913 my car is a manual, so?
@@TsarKnots7913 How is that related?
@@Propyko ah never mind. I thought you meant why use the handbrake like an automatic
@@msg5359 I was confused lol. My brother only drives autos and freaks out when I pull the handbrake out of habit so I thought he meant like that
What makes it funnier is at the end the woman looks at the car and says 'its good, it's perfect!" In french
People forget. that is what bumpers are for, bashing back and forward to get your car in the space.
It is standard pracrice in France and Italy. Bumping your way into a space.
Visit Rome, and every car has the bumpers askew and scored to hell. Even a brand new car lasts a few days before the bumpers are in pieces.
My buddy who was a Continental HGV driver. took me on his road trip into France.
We hit these local roadworks in a small French Town and the Artic couldnt move. The local gendarme came along and guided us out. There was a small 2CV parked illegally. The Gendarme motioned to reverse the lorry and my buddy gestured towards the car he was going to hit.
The Gendarme made it known my buddy had to obey his hand signals. No kidding the trailer pushed this 2CV into a wall and it folded diagonally.
My buddy was able to get out of the tight spot and the gendarme shrugged his shoulders.
🤡
Bumpers are definitely NOT for bumping other cars by purpose. They are there if an accident happens. I don't know how are you comfortable with destroying other peoples property.
0:00 best part, the guy picking up the dog sheit
brit here, it is possible to do this without any damage as long as 1> the drivers dont engage parking brake (or auto's leave it in neutral) and 2> you are gentle enough not to bump the bumper, BUT everyone needs to drive AND park like this otherwise it wont work
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Now I understand the pink panther parking joke
In New Zealand, you would get a ticket because you don't leave 1.5m gaps for the cars in front of and behind you.
Back here in India as long as you aren't touching the neighbours cars or bike you are good to go. Else get ready for a fist fight.
That’s ridiculous, mate
@@gwadamit8116 😂
@@ZDude55 yes you either get a ticket or your car would have been towed.
@@matthewlai9892 lol I’m jk if it works it works. Here parking in dense NYC I just had to buy a shock absorbing BumpShox rubber license plate cover for the front and BumpTek bumper extension for the back to avoid any scratches on my new Honda Civic. I don’t push people back like this guy did but I do like to squeeze into tight spots if necessary if I know my car will fit
Now you don't park it because robbers burned it...
I mean that's what the bumper and brakes giving for the car to roll backwards can be for 🤣💞
As a Frenchman I don’t even understand why people are surprised or shocked to see this.
Normal parking for any person living in Paris, Lyon, Marseille or any French town really
This is what bumpers are for. When I was a kid in the 90’s people did this all the time. We didn’t have parking sensors or cameras back then.
in america?
If thats what bumper are for go put a helmet on and smash your head into a wall, thats what helmets are for
Problem is bumpers are not what they used to be. Up until the 90's, they used to be sturdy, black plastic (or even metal). Nowadays it is flimsy, painted plastic which gets scratched with every ever so slight contact with other objects (let alone another car).
@@ewmeneither I remember when I was a kid in Canada, we were leaving the indoor swimming pool in two cars, and my friends dad driving our car said "watch this" and drove about 2 mph into the car in front to scare his kids. That was also his car.
Back then cars had big external steel and rubber bumpers.
In fact, yes we did have parking sensors and cameras. I have a 1993 BMW and it had optional parking sensors in the front and rear. Many cars before that had parking sensors etc.
Not her saying him to "be careful where we walk when he get out the car" while him moving someone's car hahaha i love paris
exact same in Madrid, Spain. So annoying, I eventually sold my Impreza STI, and bought a badass truck with bullbars.
Respect to the driver and to the guy who picked up his dog's poop!
Is it common and legal in France? I live in Europe and in my country if you do this you will be fined to death ^^"
This is perfectly common and legal lol, everyone do that and no one would be mad
i wouldn't say all of france. But parisian parking is a strong stereotype in all of europe ;D
@@Broockle So that's why my peugeot's bumpers are so solid :D x)
@@SuperLn1991 i would
In the UK this would be a hit and run you would be fined for failing to provide your details and insurance if caught doing this type of offence.
To foreigners, this is impressive. To locals, it’s just another day at the office.
Imagine someone doing this to a Ferrari or some other high end exotic car..
You can't find many exotic cars in France, you'll be viewed as bourgeois, common people prefers bike, and France is active at making bike roads than car roads.
@@rowennjohnmartinez5108 I thought bourgeoisie were the working "middle class".
@@luisforeal8676 no, you might be thinking of the 'petit bourgeoisie' though. still not middle class exactly
@@rowennjohnmartinez5108 i get my impreza hit im throwing lawsuits
Why would you park a Ferrari on the street ? Most likely you'd find a paid parking garage or something like that
The most non-Parisian thing in this video is the dog owner picking-up the dog poop. 😂
Here in the US you get your tires slashed for that.
Someone does that to my car all tyres slashed and all windows broken and their legs if present.
very agressiv I think
@@vinietc3842 Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
@@gravemind6536 Mais quelle genre de débile...
@@gravemind6536 what if he got a gun
12 years later, it was recommended to me… I never would’ve thought this 12 years ago… 😦
I can never!! even a normal parallel parking gives me anxiety
at least they use bumpers for their intended purpose, here they worship them like it's gold
Not just in Paris but every French city - never use your parking brake in a French city.
Oh wow so polite, driver behind moving for him.
*sees the car behind is empty*
WAIT A MINUTE!
I’m French, I thought you were filming the French civisme of the 0:01 dog walker who picks up his dog’s poop on the sidewalk.💩💩 Text translated by Google translation
In Rome it would be considered an easy parking...😂😂
If the handbrake is not on, why not come out and push the car back by hand and then park? This will prevent the dents and scratches
Leave your car blocking the road? They've figured out the most efficient way to park it. Those who pour money into flashy cars park in paid cctv monitored parking lots
>caring about scratches on a car made after the millennium
Do you care about the scratches on your iPhone too?
This is actually standard, if you see, the parking brake of the others cars are not pulled, so they can be “adjusted” in position. By the way this does not cause any! damage
Man, I think Paris is the first city that will introduce wheels than can go into a horizontal "parking mode" and park sideways.
Apparently they leave the car in neutral and the handbrake off so that this is possible. I wonder how many accidents they have with runaway vehicles?!
This only works if you leave your car in neutral gear and no hand brake.
And it shows why varnished bumpers are ridiculous.
In Paris you are supposed to leave your car in neutral wherever possible otherwise the damage will be worse with cars in gear.
The Grand Tour weren't kidding!