I am not a big Honda fan but this commercial is bad-***!

READ THIS FIRST. THEN GO TO WEB LINK AT THE BOTTOM.
Turn on your speakers and click
on the attached link after reading the preamble below...its unbelievable how they did this!

New Honda commercial in the UK. Very important that you understand:
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 a 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 hand-made 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) are parts from those two cars.

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. The voiceover is Garrison Keillor.

Honda Commercial

NOTE: If you don't get the video pretty quickly, hit the Flash 6 flag link and load it.... then go back and check it all out...... it is truly a marvel!!

 

That was pretty cool.

 

Pretty cool!

hehehe...looks like someone jumped in right before me with the 'pretty cool' line

 

That would make a good SUPERBOWL commercial.

Is it just me or did HONDA model that accord after the Mazda P5?

Looks similar to me.

Later,

 

AWESOME commercial, if all commercials were like that, then I wouldn't have a problem with them!!

 

seen that a million times... still a cool commercial... i like how the tires and rims just happen to go up the incline... thank god for editing

 

They put weights in the tires so they would go uphill.

 

Let's keep the count going. That would be the sixth or seventh time this has been posted in this forum. Probably the third in the last month.

But yea, it's not bad .

 

that was all done in one take no edit i think it took something like 600+ trys at ie but all that we see was one take. And yes this post has been up sooooo many times.

 

****-a-honda