If your feed has been full of champagne this autumn, you have probably seen at least two different clips and assumed they were the same trend. They are not. There is a bench, a car window, a sunroof and a car roof, and only one of them ends with a gunshot. This article sorts them out by what each one shows, explains what is and is not known about how they were made, and shows where Oakgen's Champagne Shoot fits. If you already know it is the roof one you want, go to the step-by-step guide.
Make the roof version
Add one photo and make the 9.5-second Champagne Shoot: the G-Class roof, the spray, the throw and the night highway.
Four champagne clips, one season
The four versions below are what we found when we looked on 25 October 2026. They share a bottle, a night setting and, usually, a birthday message, which is why they get mixed up. They differ in where the person is, what happens to the bottle and how the clip ends. We have no search volume data for any of the names people use for them, and the descriptions here are of the clips, not of how popular each one is.
The bench: a park-bench birthday version
A person walks to a park bench at night, sits, and pops a bottle. A tall jet of champagne shoots straight up and the clip turns black and white with "Happy Birthday" on screen. There is no car and no weapon. It is the simplest of the four and is used as a birthday greeting. It also circulates as an AI template that takes a photo and puts the person on the bench.
The window: a car-window version
The person leans out of a passenger window of a dark SUV on a night highway, filmed from a car alongside, opens the bottle and the foam bursts up into the headlights. In Russian it is often just called "тренд с шампанским", the champagne trend. Some copies end on a Happy Birthday title, others on the car driving on. In the versions we looked at there is no weapon in the frame, and the car versions circulate widely as AI templates made from a single photo.
The sunroof: a sunroof birthday-card version
Here the person stands up through the open sunroof of a luxury SUV at night, pops or sprays the bottle over the city, and the clip ends on a birthday card, sometimes with the person's age. It sits between the bench and the window versions: the car is there, but the person is inside it, and there is no weapon.
The roof: the Champagne Shoot
The fourth is the one Oakgen's template is based on: a 10-second portrait reel from October 2026. A young man in a light grey hoodie and sweatpants sits on the roof of a matte black G-Class as it drives along a wet city highway at night, with a driver visible through the side window. He sprays the champagne, drinks, throws the bottle high and shoots it with a pistol so it bursts in the air, then the car speeds off and a "Happy Birthday" title fades in. An October 2026 round-up of AI video trends lists it as "Champagne Shoot on G Class", which is where the name comes from. What the Champagne Shoot AI trend is goes further into the reel and the name.
The roof version, from the reference reel. Not an Oakgen output.
How to tell them apart
| Bench | Car window | Sunroof | Roof (Champagne Shoot) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the person is | On a park bench | Leaning out of a car window | Standing in the sunroof | Sitting on the roof |
| Setting | Night, park | Night highway | Night, city | Wet night highway, city lights |
| The bottle | Popped, jet of spray | Popped, foam bursts | Popped, sprayed | Sprayed, drunk from, thrown and shot |
| Weapon | None | None in the versions we saw | None | A handgun fired at the bottle |
| Ending | Black and white, "Happy Birthday" | Varies | Birthday card | "Happy Birthday" title over the highway |
The quickest test is the last three seconds. If the bottle leaves the person's hand and is shot in the air, it is the Champagne Shoot. If the person is half out of a window, it is the car-window version. If there is no car at all, it is the bench.
Real or AI?
We could not confirm how any particular clip was made, and we do not claim the roof reel is either filmed or AI. What we can say is that the car versions circulate widely as AI templates, and that the roof stunt, a bottle shot out of the air from a moving car, is the kind of scene AI is used for because nobody should film it. When you look at any of these, the usual signs of an AI clip apply: spray that starts before the cork moves, a bottle that changes shape in the air, hands with the wrong number of fingers, and number plates or badges that do not quite read. Your own Oakgen version is generated fiction either way, and should be labelled as AI.
Why none of them should be copied for real
The car clips show things that hurt people. Leaning out of a window or sitting on the roof of a moving car can throw you off at the first brake or turn. Drinking in a moving car is illegal in many places. Firing a gun into the air, as the roof version does, is illegal in many places and dangerous wherever the bullet lands. A clip that looks real is not evidence that it was done safely. If you want the shot, make it as an AI video and say so. The bottle shot and safe posting covers what the Champagne Shoot shows and what to check before posting a clip with a weapon in it.
Making the roof version with Oakgen
Oakgen's Champagne Shoot template makes the roof clip from one photo. Your face and hair go on the man on the roof; the grey tracksuit, the highway, the black SUV and its driver, every beat including the pistol shot, and the reel's original sound stay. It keeps the first 9.5 seconds and ends one frame before the "Happy Birthday" title, so you can add your own line or none: adding your own title shows how. We have not identified the song; it is in Russian and Instagram labels the sound only as original audio. If you want the photo tips first, putting yourself on the roof covers which photo holds up in a night scene.
Label the video as AI when you post it. For other trends added this week, see Burning Bridges and Closed on Sunday; for more car scenes without a weapon, try Unforgettable Car or Stay with Me Car Reveal.
Frequently asked questions
What is the champagne car trend?
It is a loose name for several short clips where someone pops champagne in or on a car at night. Two examples are a car-window version, where the person leans out of a window on a night highway, and the Champagne Shoot, where a man on the roof of a black G-Class sprays the bottle, throws it and shoots it in the air.
Is the G-Class champagne video real?
We could not confirm how the reference reel was made. It appears AI-made, and the car versions of this trend circulate widely as AI templates, but we do not treat that as proof either way. Your Oakgen version is generated fiction.
Is there a gun in the Champagne Shoot?
Yes. The man on the roof shoots the thrown bottle with a handgun and waves it before the car drives off. The bench, window and sunroof versions we looked at have no weapon. Never recreate any of it for real.
What song is in the G-Class champagne clip?
A Russian-language song that we have not identified. Instagram labels the reel's sound only as original audio. Oakgen's template keeps that original audio.
Which one can I make with Oakgen?
The G-Class roof clip. Oakgen's Champagne Shoot template puts your face on the man on the roof from one photo and keeps the scene, the grey tracksuit, the pistol beat and the original sound, ending before the reel's Happy Birthday title.
