The King of Maneuver



Is it possible for a double-decker bus to make a U-Turn while on a bridge just two lanes wide? Unbelievably, the answer is yes. It takes some skill, guts and lots of patience to be able to do that. Hit play to watch

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Posted on December 4, 2007 at 8:00 am by Algonkin
Category: Car & Vehicle, World Records

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14 comments to "The King of Maneuver"

  • Anthony
    December 4th, 2007 at 8:34 am

    That’s not a U turn, that’s a Y turn. A U turn would have been even more impressive.

  • hpavc
    December 4th, 2007 at 9:16 am

    Impressive low gear in that vehicle.

  • SenorMysterioso
    December 4th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    k turn, y turn, not a u turn though

    still a bit impressive to be the master of the 50 point turn I guess

  • matt
    December 4th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Bah. Let’s him do it on ONE lane.

  • Aeris
    December 4th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    My dad is a busdriver (also in Germany, where that TV show is from) and he said that this was only possible because they took the side fences off the bridge. Normally a doubledecker bus is too long for that on a bridge, and there is no ordinary bridge that has no fences on the side…

  • jojo
    December 4th, 2007 at 10:33 am

    @aeris: oh really? you think? ;)
    of course it wouldn’t have worked with fences on the sides. anybody can figure that out. but thats not the point…

    pretty impressive vid =)

  • Jesse
    December 4th, 2007 at 10:34 am

    I think the fact that they have the inset reaction shots from the studio guests, like they do on Japanese tv shows. Is this something that is done in a lot of worldwide tv? It doesn’t seem to be a North American (or at least a Canadian/US) thing.

  • K!P
    December 4th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    the name of the game show loosly translates to i bet i can… (insert weird thing here) teh inserts of studio geusts are proberly know to him or something

  • Sharon
    December 4th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    Well, I for one, thought that was amazing! They are right, that is alot of school and alot of patience cause I would have ended up in the water with the first turn….

  • Sharon
    December 4th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    haha, I said school instead of skill…guess I had school bus on the brain.

  • Skipweasel
    December 4th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    49 or 51 point turn, Shirley? An even number would leave him in reverse.

  • jake
    December 4th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    it’s not technically a u-turn is it? unless that’s the American term for one of those, it’s what would be considered, a “three point turn” even though it’s more turns than that it the name many people associate. i think in the uk they now just call it a turn in the road

  • algonkin
    December 4th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

    I’ve never heard of a K-Turn or a Y-Turn…I just didn’t know how to express it so a U-Turn is comprehensible…Gosh! I hope!

  • Chad
    December 5th, 2007 at 12:59 am

    the video would have gone differently had there been guardrails.


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