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title: "Drive Wire: Crafty Daredevils on an Eighty Meter Water Slide"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-15"
modified: "2015-10-15"
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  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/509/drive-wire-crafty-daredevils-on-an-eighty-meter-water-slide"
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  - "News"
---

# Drive Wire: Crafty Daredevils on an Eighty Meter Water Slide

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Transcript:

What do you get when you combine a bunch of friends, an assortment of scrapwood and a ton of tarps? Today’s ridiculous video. Shot on a private lake in France, these crafty daredevils made an 80 meter water slide that left us in awe. Thanks to a Renault-powered tow rope, this slide is capable of launching its riders 8 meters in the air and 40 meters out. We will chalk this up as a win for the French youth.

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