Man that was awesome, that honda doesn't look bad either...perhaps a litle too waggonish.

 

Thats a genuis commercial, I love it. I am glad Honda is bringing the J-spec Accord as Acura TSX, and I planning on getting one as soon as I get out of school.

 

Violate the laws of physics with the Honda Accord!

I like how the wheels can roll uphill.

"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
-- Homer Simpson

 

Cool, Rube-Goldberg machine!

 

Allegedly it's all one cut, requiring over 600 takes.

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news...13/ixhome.html

And they do have some kind of gadget to make the tires roll uphill, but they're not real specific about how it's done.

 

As Menace said, it's in the article that you posted:

"At one point three tyres, amazingly, roll uphill. They do so because inside they have been weighted with bolts and screws which have been positioned with fingertip care so that the slightest kiss of kinetic energy pushes them over, onward and, yes, upward. "

 

That was the coolest car commercial ever. Here is a parallel site for it.

http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/581/

 

I think the wheel in your picture would roll at most a quarter-turn uphill. At that point, the weight would be in the bottom of the wheel, and it wouldn't roll any more.

The article does say that they positioned the weight "with fingertip care", but that still does not explain the mechanism.

It is as if they are dropping weight across the uphill side of the wheel so that it pulls that side of the wheel down, then falls off again before the weight hits the bottom of the circle.

That's what I don't understand.

 

http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html

 

Hello and welcome to last year...

LOL...just had to say it to you Hank.


Protege Menace posted it like 2 weeks ago. Pretty cool, huh?

 

it figures *shrug*

it's new to me! so i don't give a rat's *** if it's a repost



here's the news article describing the ad. it's all done in realtime, no CG cheating here

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news...13/ixhome.html

 

I love it...Rube Goldberg lives!

I especially like the walking windshield wipers.

Definitely worth waiting...and waiting...and WAITING...for it to load (stupid 56k dialup). Thanks, guys, you made my day.

 

WRONG
http://utterlyboring.com/blog/archives/000497.php

 

no
http://utterlyboring.com/blog/archives/000497.php