Demolition the Volkswagen way...
Let’s face it, when it comes to demolition, using absurd amount of high-tech equipment and making things go ‘BANG’ is what the crowd really want to see. And indeed, why take a building apart piece by piece, when you can watch it disappear in a cloud of TNT…
Last week Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles stepped into the demolition arena with a strong contender for the ‘most elaborate V8 powered demolition award of 2011’, by yanking down a 67m high chimney in Reading, weighing approximately 140tonnes.
The mission was successfully completed by attaching 200m ropes to the back of four VW Amarok pickups. It certainly gets our vote, but can it stay the course and take the title – take a look and decide…
