Yes, I know this has been around, but guess what? I don't care that you know everything, I just know it's fun to watch!

This is copy & paste from an e-mail.

And you thought those people that set up roomfuls of
dominos to knock over were amazing... There are no computer
graphics or digital tricks in the film.

Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as
you see it.

The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something,
usually very minor, didn't work.

They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The
crew spent weeks shooting night and day. By the time it was
over, they were ready to change professions. The film cost
six million dollars and took three months to complete
including full engineering of the sequence. In addition,
it's two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on
British television, they're shelling out enough dough to
keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime.

However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded
advertisement in Internet history.

Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself
simply in "free viewings"

(Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this
commercial!). When the ad was pitched to senior executives,
they signed off on it immediately without any hesitation -
including the costs.

There are six and only six handmade Honda Accords in the
world To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers
disassembled two of them to make the film.

Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls,
floor, ramp, and complete Honda Accord) is parts from those
two cars.

The voice-over is Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown
to Honda executives, they liked it and commented on how
amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell off their
chairs when they found out it was for real.

Oh. and about those funky windshield wipers. On the new
Accords, the windshield wipers have water sensors and are
designed to start doing their thing automatically as soon
as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the commercial.
click here :

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php

 

That's amazing. I can't believe that's all real.

 

For a more complete description check out:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/hondacog.asp

 

The only thing that I have a problem with is the tires. I have a hard time believing that enough force was there to cause them to roll up the ramp...but I wasn't there, so it possible. Just looks funny.

 

In another forum, I saw that explained by the possibility of weighting the inside of the tire to make it roll uphill...

Like I said in the first post:

 

Yeh Yeh..this is an old thread, but this commercial is cool as hell. It's all true and fun to watch. I was at the Honda Dealer meeting in FLorida where they first showed this... Check it out....



http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php

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Me too, but like OnBelay said...it's still fun to watch.

 

it just goes to show that there really are smart people left in this world, the tire thing was the only part I had a time beleving but like the late great Mc Donalds saids "hey it can happen"