honda ad

[zracre]

very cool...
http://www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm

[Greg Amy]

Is that the one with all the parts that ends up doing something simple, Rube Goldberg-like (I can't watch videos at work)? If so, it's very interesting. Been around a few years now, and I've read from multiple sources that it is actual video, not CG. - GA

On edit:http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp

[Andy Bettencourt]

I have seen this too - and heard it was real. There is NO way the tires would go up hill like that in the first 30 seconds of the video...something is obviously 'fixed' there...

[JoshS]

I have seen this too - and heard it was real. There is NO way the tires would go up hill like that in the first 30 seconds of the video...something is obviously 'fixed' there...
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I saw something on TV a year ago or so about the making of this ad. They said it was absolutely real except that there is one cut in there. That's because the studio wasn't big enough to set the whole thing up, so it was done in two parts. In the TV special they played the cut in slow motion and zoomed in and you could see it. It's about halfway through but I can't remember the exact spot.

[Greg Amy]

Saw it, yep that's the one.

Andy, the tire thing got me, too when I first saw it. I recall the answer was that the tops of the tires were weighted, so that when the balance was upset the weight caused the tire's rotation and the climb up the ramp. - GA