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Originally Posted by Mosaud1998

https://www.yahoo.com/news/driver-st...144728601.html

I didn't know continuously revving a car can make it catch fire. First time I've heard of this.

Revving the engine alone wouldn't make it catch on fire, but constantly shifting the transmission from Drive into Reverse and back again with high revs would produce a lot of heat. I suspect he was trying to "rock" the car out of the snow and the popping noise was the transmission blowing out.