**The Ultimate Drag Racing Challenge**

In this thrilling episode, we put our driving skills to the test as we embarked on a high-speed journey across the half mile with a very special passenger - a VW Van. Our mission was to reach the finish line first and claim victory. But before we could start the engines, we had to get into the right mindset. We took a moment to appreciate the beauty of our competitors' vehicles, honking our horns and flashing our lights in a classic van-to-van display of respect.

As we prepared for the big race, it became clear that our friend Sam was not to be underestimated. He gunned his engine from 0-105mph across the half mile in textbook style, leaving us all in awe. But what about our trusty Transit? Van Haven kindly lent us their VW van for this special occasion, and we were eager to see how it would fare against its more powerful rivals.

The rules of the game were simple: manual transmission only, and our driver had to eat a bag of crisps while driving. The first challenge was to get from 30mph to second gear in one smooth motion. It seemed like an easy task, but as we discovered, it wasn't quite that simple. Our friend Nicholas struggled to get into the right gear, leaving him behind in the pack.

Despite the setbacks, our team refused to give up. We took a short break to stretch our legs and refuel with some refreshments. But even with a bit of time off, we couldn't shake off the feeling that this was going to be a tough competition. And it was - Nicholas's attempt at the break test was not without its spills and accidents.

In the end, it was all about who could stop in the shortest distance from 70mph. Our friend Sam came close to winning, but our VW Van managed to edge him out by a hair's breadth. Despite not taking home the trophy, we were proud of both vehicles for their performances.

**The Carwow Connection**

While we had an absolute blast drag racing with our VW van, we couldn't help but wonder what other adventures awaited us on Carwow. We took a moment to reflect on how far we'd come and thought about all the amazing vehicles we've featured on this platform so far. And that's when it hit us - we need to share more of these epic racing challenges with our audience!

We followed the simple instructions on screen (or, rather, in the video window) to access Carwow directly from the video itself. With just one click, we could browse through a staggering array of vehicles and find out what's waiting for them on the track. It was an exhilarating experience that left us all itching for more.

**The Quarter Mile Showdown**

As we watched our VW Van take its rightful place in the history books as the winner of this epic drag racing challenge, we couldn't help but wonder - how would it stack up against other vehicles? We decided to dig deeper and find out. The result was a comprehensive analysis of every single vehicle that had ever participated in our drag racing series.

We discovered some astonishing facts about these incredible machines and their respective performance capabilities. Some were mere seconds off the pace, while others left us all speechless with their sheer power and agility. It's clear that Carwow has something truly special up its sleeve - a treasure trove of automotive awesomeness waiting to be uncovered.

**Get Ready for More**

As we wrapped up this thrilling episode of our drag racing series, we couldn't help but leave you all with a taste of what's to come. We'll be back with more exciting challenges, new vehicles, and maybe even some surprises along the way. Stay tuned, folks - it's going to be an exhilarating ride!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right gers how you doing today we're going to be finding out which is the fastest delivery van in the United Kingdom by drag racing these lovely machines over the standing quarter mile we've got a beautiful sunny summers's day you know what that means tea on the ground anyway time for some graft abos the Ford Transit has a 2 L 4- cylinder diesel engine that puts out 170 horsepower and 360 n m of torque that sends power to the front wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox the transit ways in add 2.2 tons and prices start from just over £32,000 the Volkswagen transporter also has a 2 L 4-cylinder diesel which puts out 24 horsepower and 450 newm of torque it sends all the power to the front wheels for a seven-speed automatic gearbox and the transported weighs in are just over 2 tons prices start from a little under £28,000 the PUO expert also has a 2 L 4- cylinder diesel it puts out 180 horsepower and 400 Newt M of torque this ends power to the front wheels virus six-speed automatic gearbox and the expert weighs in at just over 1.6 tons prices start from a little over 223,000 all right Samuel how you doing sunshine hello GE right Nicholas you ready you ready for some deliveries mate ready to go right Anders what we're going to do is see which of these lovely vans sounds the most aggressive which one is most likely to wake up residents when you're making that early Amazon delivery or go for frightening other vehicles when you're behind them the traffic lights have a listen to mine go on Samuel that's pretty frightening that is mate let's have a listen Nick next is too smoo in it I think that's a win for Sam but you let us know what you think is the most aggressive and rattly sanded diesel in the comments so Sam what do you think is going to happen I've got the race van so I'm going to win 200 horsepower all the torque nothing in the back I'm a winner ran so you've completed all your deliveries lovely jubly how about you Nicholas I'm going to leave you for dust mat this thing is you said smoothest fan smoothest Victory do wait a minute mate where's your accent gone I think we need to bully him don't we if you can catch me that's fine talk that is right then now before we go what we need to do is first of all find out what your favorite item is at screw fix starting with you Nicholas I have a good uh butt weld flange me what and you Samuel you see mine comes with a story when I'm on a job in a toilet and I run out a and there's not any to hand I think what am I going to do so when I go to screw fix I get as much as my back end can carry how are you spelling c a l u k okay isn't that cork all right then my favorite screw fix item is plugs not butt plugs raw plugs one last thing what is your current economy figure can anyone beat 39.2 that's what I'm averaging of course I can I'm the fastest van I've got 36.9 and I'm proud of it and you nitless hope you're sitting comfortably 27.1 thank you very much blette what you been doing you've been driving around in first gear everywhere there's a second gear what right anyway enough of that nonsense let's get on with the race I've just noticed my average speed in this van is nine that'll be the reason for your poor economy Sunshine 6,215 M at 9 miles hour average your gaffer ain't going to be very pleased on that fuel consumption at all is he just don't tell him about my siphoning it either 3 2 1 oh f for the win bad start no bye Sunshine oh no come on come on you lovely piece of Machinery come on pzo oh here comes the VW KN coming back oh I think he just had a bad start wo come on for no no come on oh no blood l oh got amazing traction away from the line there but that VW German engineering coming on strong I have no idea Samuel did you have me on the line there yeah I won that I didn't launch very well but I still won so it doesn't matter inch or a mile is that what Vin Diesel says right and how about you Nicholas you just got left for dead yeah I did but I've just discovered I've got a traction control off button which I didn't press have you got that you're all making excuses here right I just want to check something cuz I think it was very close on the line finish line camera can you let us know who won that one I couldn't see cuz the gay van won the left one Samuel you tried to Bluff me but the Finish Line cam says otherwise formal protest go again best two out of three guys come on look at him trying to warm up his tires mate you've got van contact Eco tires I don't think that's going to make any difference right that's 1 n to the mighty Ford Transit can we secure another win 3 2 1 come on right got a good start by en sure it's going to be enough oh no come on come on Ford come on you lovely bit of van just normal van driving and signals there just waving alow to one another where is he going with that van that was some really good van driving there very classic Maneuvers there also like your Jester waving at me in a very nice friendly van driver kind of way that was fun this does a really weird thing when you try and well it's not brake boosting when you try and hold some gas and brake it cuts everything out so it doesn't launch very well you've got a good launch in there there's someone else in the race but I don't really care about him loser Nicholas what's going on you too busy revising for your exams or something yeah something like that I I don't know what's going on I had all my buttons pressed just one going anywhere it's cuz you're a silly little University boy aren't you aren't you summer break earning a bit of money this is our livelihood you better stay at the back anyway yeah I think your problem Samuel I think it's to do with the fact that you have a very complex and expensive dual clutch automatic gearbox whereas this is nice and simple anyway one each decide that was a bit closer than I thought got a feeling that everyone who drives a van in the UK is going to hate me what are you doing Nicholas it says expert on the back of your van that's completely not lie is it I'm on break Matt Union rules nothing you can do about it wait a minute he just stopped in the middle of the road to do a delivery what's going on here right Nicholas I think you've just upgraded into a Volkswagen I literally have no idea what's happening there they've gone Rogue that's not comfortable what is he doing I suggest you lock your doors nck I'll see you later cheers pal where's my phone right everyone let's line up delivery just get back to work time is Manny it's time for the decid but for this race we need to do things properly so Lads winders down elbows Ahad ready three two one oh beautiful start everyby Samuel come on come on P come on hello how you doing a ah you doing where's that Nicholas well done Samuel You're the Best winner winner chicken dinner B gosh any final words from you Nicholas or have you got to get back to University now yeah something like that let's do the thing so then what exactly happened well the Volkswagen won it completed the standing quarter mile in 16.8 seconds the Ford took 17.3 seconds and the Perse is last completing the standing quarter mile in 17.7 seconds want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car where to have over 4 th000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car that's the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for once you've done that we'll enter your car into an online auction when the auction's over we'll let you know the result and the dealer with the winning bid will be in touch to arrange easy payment and free collection of your car 93% of sellers surveyed said they got the price they expected or more through carwow the best bit is it's completely free I put a link in the description of this video and the Ping comment to take you directly to carwow where over 4,000 dealers are ready to bid on your car or you can just click on the pop out Banner that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video now we have a rolling race from 30 m hour the first to the half mile wins however during this race we've got to do something van manlike we need to be honking our horns and flashing our lights the old way otherwise we're disqualified all right are you ready three two one let's go into it come on everybody 3 2 1 I go don't forget your light oh look at that look at that VW cutting his head me there look at that dangerous driving loving that oh flipping it no all over the road right oh beautiful really like that there Samuel very good driving textbook Nicholas you're a little bit safe I think little bit safe maybe but I don't know I was never going to beat you anyway so I couldn't catch you even if I wanted to hit you Sam how is it for you I was doing 105 mph across the half mile BL me that was quick and the kick down amazing but then it does have a dual clutch automatic GE box right and gers we can have another rolling race but this time we're going to have the vans in manual mode and when you're driving you got to eat your bag of crisps all right with a roll on in second gear from 30 good luck it's really annoying on this I have to use this to change gears very weird second gear right let's get a 30 everybody ready 3 2 1 go oh come on come on change come on this love it Samuel what happened I was way behind my gear shift in this thing is absolutely terrible I won didn't I good work good work Nicholas it was close though wasn't it that was all right wasn't it absolutely smash you at where are you anyway all this driving um has made me a little bit kind of in need of a comfort break so I'm just going to nip out and have a we we oh yeah yeah union break yeah time time for a slash oh B go oh that's a job you got to do a good shake off hello love all bought and paid for that do me another six minutes I reckon let be go here we go right in now we have a break test from 70 mph the van that stops in the shortest distance wins also because we've now relieved ourselves we can have another drink so hopefully we won't spill any when we break in but we'll find out oh oh no oh it's not going well I think I did a good job there got very good left arm control right and Sam that was very close between you and I but I think this van just won yeah you win did you have much spillage there's a little dribble on my Center but um other than that I'm okay A bit like when you went for a Wii then yeah Nicholas what was going on with you mate not gone well for me I'm afraid and I tell you what this is some funny tasting tea this is it's bloody everywhere in here anyway thank you Nicholas for taking a break from his university studies to come and drive a van join us some holidays thank you to Van Haven for Lending us their VW van and I've got to say I'm Mighty proud of this for Transit he may not have won the drag race but he did a good job with the break test and that is the most important in a f I've also just noticed it's got a square steering wheel which is a bit odd anyway I hope you all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a jolly good like if you'd like to watch some more videos then just click on the video windows that we've provided about the screen for you and if you want to see how these Vans quarter mile times compared to absolutely every other vehicle we have ever drag raced then just follow the carwow link it's just the carwow logo click on that and it'll take you directly there thank you very much for watching and I'll see you next timeall right gers how you doing today we're going to be finding out which is the fastest delivery van in the United Kingdom by drag racing these lovely machines over the standing quarter mile we've got a beautiful sunny summers's day you know what that means tea on the ground anyway time for some graft abos the Ford Transit has a 2 L 4- cylinder diesel engine that puts out 170 horsepower and 360 n m of torque that sends power to the front wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox the transit ways in add 2.2 tons and prices start from just over £32,000 the Volkswagen transporter also has a 2 L 4-cylinder diesel which puts out 24 horsepower and 450 newm of torque it sends all the power to the front wheels for a seven-speed automatic gearbox and the transported weighs in are just over 2 tons prices start from a little under £28,000 the PUO expert also has a 2 L 4- cylinder diesel it puts out 180 horsepower and 400 Newt M of torque this ends power to the front wheels virus six-speed automatic gearbox and the expert weighs in at just over 1.6 tons prices start from a little over 223,000 all right Samuel how you doing sunshine hello GE right Nicholas you ready you ready for some deliveries mate ready to go right Anders what we're going to do is see which of these lovely vans sounds the most aggressive which one is most likely to wake up residents when you're making that early Amazon delivery or go for frightening other vehicles when you're behind them the traffic lights have a listen to mine go on Samuel that's pretty frightening that is mate let's have a listen Nick next is too smoo in it I think that's a win for Sam but you let us know what you think is the most aggressive and rattly sanded diesel in the comments so Sam what do you think is going to happen I've got the race van so I'm going to win 200 horsepower all the torque nothing in the back I'm a winner ran so you've completed all your deliveries lovely jubly how about you Nicholas I'm going to leave you for dust mat this thing is you said smoothest fan smoothest Victory do wait a minute mate where's your accent gone I think we need to bully him don't we if you can catch me that's fine talk that is right then now before we go what we need to do is first of all find out what your favorite item is at screw fix starting with you Nicholas I have a good uh butt weld flange me what and you Samuel you see mine comes with a story when I'm on a job in a toilet and I run out a and there's not any to hand I think what am I going to do so when I go to screw fix I get as much as my back end can carry how are you spelling c a l u k okay isn't that cork all right then my favorite screw fix item is plugs not butt plugs raw plugs one last thing what is your current economy figure can anyone beat 39.2 that's what I'm averaging of course I can I'm the fastest van I've got 36.9 and I'm proud of it and you nitless hope you're sitting comfortably 27.1 thank you very much blette what you been doing you've been driving around in first gear everywhere there's a second gear what right anyway enough of that nonsense let's get on with the race I've just noticed my average speed in this van is nine that'll be the reason for your poor economy Sunshine 6,215 M at 9 miles hour average your gaffer ain't going to be very pleased on that fuel consumption at all is he just don't tell him about my siphoning it either 3 2 1 oh f for the win bad start no bye Sunshine oh no come on come on you lovely piece of Machinery come on pzo oh here comes the VW KN coming back oh I think he just had a bad start wo come on for no no come on oh no blood l oh got amazing traction away from the line there but that VW German engineering coming on strong I have no idea Samuel did you have me on the line there yeah I won that I didn't launch very well but I still won so it doesn't matter inch or a mile is that what Vin Diesel says right and how about you Nicholas you just got left for dead yeah I did but I've just discovered I've got a traction control off button which I didn't press have you got that you're all making excuses here right I just want to check something cuz I think it was very close on the line finish line camera can you let us know who won that one I couldn't see cuz the gay van won the left one Samuel you tried to Bluff me but the Finish Line cam says otherwise formal protest go again best two out of three guys come on look at him trying to warm up his tires mate you've got van contact Eco tires I don't think that's going to make any difference right that's 1 n to the mighty Ford Transit can we secure another win 3 2 1 come on right got a good start by en sure it's going to be enough oh no come on come on Ford come on you lovely bit of van just normal van driving and signals there just waving alow to one another where is he going with that van that was some really good van driving there very classic Maneuvers there also like your Jester waving at me in a very nice friendly van driver kind of way that was fun this does a really weird thing when you try and well it's not brake boosting when you try and hold some gas and brake it cuts everything out so it doesn't launch very well you've got a good launch in there there's someone else in the race but I don't really care about him loser Nicholas what's going on you too busy revising for your exams or something yeah something like that I I don't know what's going on I had all my buttons pressed just one going anywhere it's cuz you're a silly little University boy aren't you aren't you summer break earning a bit of money this is our livelihood you better stay at the back anyway yeah I think your problem Samuel I think it's to do with the fact that you have a very complex and expensive dual clutch automatic gearbox whereas this is nice and simple anyway one each decide that was a bit closer than I thought got a feeling that everyone who drives a van in the UK is going to hate me what are you doing Nicholas it says expert on the back of your van that's completely not lie is it I'm on break Matt Union rules nothing you can do about it wait a minute he just stopped in the middle of the road to do a delivery what's going on here right Nicholas I think you've just upgraded into a Volkswagen I literally have no idea what's happening there they've gone Rogue that's not comfortable what is he doing I suggest you lock your doors nck I'll see you later cheers pal where's my phone right everyone let's line up delivery just get back to work time is Manny it's time for the decid but for this race we need to do things properly so Lads winders down elbows Ahad ready three two one oh beautiful start everyby Samuel come on come on P come on hello how you doing a ah you doing where's that Nicholas well done Samuel You're the Best winner winner chicken dinner B gosh any final words from you Nicholas or have you got to get back to University now yeah something like that let's do the thing so then what exactly happened well the Volkswagen won it completed the standing quarter mile in 16.8 seconds the Ford took 17.3 seconds and the Perse is last completing the standing quarter mile in 17.7 seconds want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car where to have over 4 th000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car that's the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for once you've done that we'll enter your car into an online auction when the auction's over we'll let you know the result and the dealer with the winning bid will be in touch to arrange easy payment and free collection of your car 93% of sellers surveyed said they got the price they expected or more through carwow the best bit is it's completely free I put a link in the description of this video and the Ping comment to take you directly to carwow where over 4,000 dealers are ready to bid on your car or you can just click on the pop out Banner that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video now we have a rolling race from 30 m hour the first to the half mile wins however during this race we've got to do something van manlike we need to be honking our horns and flashing our lights the old way otherwise we're disqualified all right are you ready three two one let's go into it come on everybody 3 2 1 I go don't forget your light oh look at that look at that VW cutting his head me there look at that dangerous driving loving that oh flipping it no all over the road right oh beautiful really like that there Samuel very good driving textbook Nicholas you're a little bit safe I think little bit safe maybe but I don't know I was never going to beat you anyway so I couldn't catch you even if I wanted to hit you Sam how is it for you I was doing 105 mph across the half mile BL me that was quick and the kick down amazing but then it does have a dual clutch automatic GE box right and gers we can have another rolling race but this time we're going to have the vans in manual mode and when you're driving you got to eat your bag of crisps all right with a roll on in second gear from 30 good luck it's really annoying on this I have to use this to change gears very weird second gear right let's get a 30 everybody ready 3 2 1 go oh come on come on change come on this love it Samuel what happened I was way behind my gear shift in this thing is absolutely terrible I won didn't I good work good work Nicholas it was close though wasn't it that was all right wasn't it absolutely smash you at where are you anyway all this driving um has made me a little bit kind of in need of a comfort break so I'm just going to nip out and have a we we oh yeah yeah union break yeah time time for a slash oh B go oh that's a job you got to do a good shake off hello love all bought and paid for that do me another six minutes I reckon let be go here we go right in now we have a break test from 70 mph the van that stops in the shortest distance wins also because we've now relieved ourselves we can have another drink so hopefully we won't spill any when we break in but we'll find out oh oh no oh it's not going well I think I did a good job there got very good left arm control right and Sam that was very close between you and I but I think this van just won yeah you win did you have much spillage there's a little dribble on my Center but um other than that I'm okay A bit like when you went for a Wii then yeah Nicholas what was going on with you mate not gone well for me I'm afraid and I tell you what this is some funny tasting tea this is it's bloody everywhere in here anyway thank you Nicholas for taking a break from his university studies to come and drive a van join us some holidays thank you to Van Haven for Lending us their VW van and I've got to say I'm Mighty proud of this for Transit he may not have won the drag race but he did a good job with the break test and that is the most important in a f I've also just noticed it's got a square steering wheel which is a bit odd anyway I hope you all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a jolly good like if you'd like to watch some more videos then just click on the video windows that we've provided about the screen for you and if you want to see how these Vans quarter mile times compared to absolutely every other vehicle we have ever drag raced then just follow the carwow link it's just the carwow logo click on that and it'll take you directly there thank you very much for watching and I'll see you next time\n"