Can a car a blow up?

Question

Can a car just blow up out of no where?

Answer 1

While gasoline is very volatile, cars in general can't do that or we wouldn't be driving them or letting our wives and daughters drive them least ways

Answer 2

There's nothing explosive in a car as it sits. There's plenty of gasoline in a car to generate an explosion, but it's in the wrong place. If you get it out of the tank, and mix it with just the right volume of air outside the car, you could generate an explosive vapor cloud. Detonating that would be impressive, but it would be unconfined. Unconfined explosions don't blow anything apart. If a vapor cloud explosion occurs inside a car, there's not very much room, so you don't get a big cloud. It'll blow a window or two out.

That is the ONLY way you could generate an explosion using things you can find in a car.

Fire is another matter. Cars burn great. Everything in and on them will burn, even the paint, and they'll make a fire taller than a house. Its almost like nobody has even thought about applying fire safety to a car.

Answer 3

in short "No" but why not ? heres why a car doesnt not usually have enough fuel for an explosion and since cars now of days have plastic gas tanks mainly the explosion wont be violent enough to make the vehicle blow up you may get some small explosion under the car but wil it blow up and flip like in the movies no, but you can sometimes see a car catch fire due to static electricity getting close enough to the fuel tank but its not likely you can blow the engine in it but its not the big explosions or anything like that, some of the most violent explosions in vehicles happen to top fuel dragsters when going down the track at over one hundred miles an hour thats the most explosion you will see in a car

Answer 4

No. cars cannot blow up out of nowhere. They would leak, heat up (can catch on fire), or stall.

They are controlled combustable engines. Safty devices will turn off a car before it will explode, Unless a gas line is leaking and somhow gets ingnighted by a spark. (wouldnt happen)

Answer 5

not without some help,it would just about have to be running or someone driving it really hard,for the engine to blow,the whole car i doubt would blow up though,unless it was set on fire or something,they wont blow up without help ,good luck.

Answer 6

Are you looking for someone to blow up your car?

Answer 7

You've seen too many movies. They don't do that unless they've had someone mess with them and add some explosives. good luck.

Answer 8

only during a jihad in iraq