why can combustion cars stop working after driving through flood waters but be okay in heavy rainfall?

Question

I’ve recently seen on tiktok lots of footage of nice cars driving through flood water, usually they accelerate into it and there’s a surge of water back onto the bonnet but at first thought this seems like the same thing that happens when it rains

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Answer 1

ICE have an air intakes. When water reaches the air intake it floods. Rain doesn’t enter the intake, so no flooding