Because your batery does not have much energy to make the car roar to life.
ignite or start a car,truck,boat or plane
What i think that the fuel pump in your car could not be working properly. In other words, its not sending enough fuel to the cylinders to start the car. If that is what is wrong.
No, but fumes from the battery acid can ignite with a spark.
Fuel pump problem
It would start and run but only idle. It would not be drivable.
I would get in my other car
metal does not burn very well,
Only if it was broke in half and that is very doubtful.
An older, completely mechanically controlled diesel engine could, provided it had electricity to start it. A gasoline car could not, as electricity is required for the spark plugs to ignite the fuel in the cylinder.
It fires the plugs in the cylinders to ignite the mixture.
your engine will start but run badly on a multi cyl. ie. more than one only 1 plug may be down, not often more than 1 together
Weak car battery