Off-topic: BEST Car Commercial: Honda (Must See!)

[Thai]

Thanks to our sister forum (AcuraMDX.org/forums), we have a link to this awesome commercial for the new Honda Accord:

Best Car Commercial Ever! MUST CLICK!

Enjoy!

 

[Thai]

Here is an article on that short-movie-commercial:

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/new...nda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html

Lights! Camera! Retake!

The Honda Accord campaign launched last week looks certain to become an advertising legend. Quentin Letts goes behind the scenes

Six hundred and six takes it took, and if they had been forced to do a 607th it is probable, if not downright certain, that one of the film crew would have snapped and gone mad.

On the first 605 occasions something small, usually infuriatingly minute, went just slightly awry and the whole delicate arrangement was wrecked. A drop too much oil there, or here maybe one ball-bearing too many giving a fraction too much impetus to the movement. Whirr, creak, crash, the entire, card-house of consequences was a write-off and they had to start again.

Honda's latest television advertisement, a two-minute film called "Cog", is like a fine-lubricated line of dominoes. It begins with a transmission bearing which rolls into a synchro hub which in turn rolls into a gear wheel cog and plummets off a table on to a camshaft and pulley wheel. All the parts are from the new Honda Accord -

 

[peter78]

It was a really neat commercial. I also like the car, a Honda Accord Wagon. I am a little partial to wagons. I would like to see it come back to the States.