Check out this funny Ferrari commercial

It's a repost from many times over, but it's still amusing every time I see it.

 

Thats as cool as walking into a lampost

My uncool moment in a Ferrari was when it wouldn't start at Snetterton race track, I hadn't had it long and there was loads watching when I got in, the battery was flat and loads stood there laughing as I got 'bump started'

 

Take a peek at this Honda Accord ad. Be sure to read below first. A really amazing demonstration of coordination!


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 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. The voiceover 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.

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

 

looks like stop frame animation grommit

 

we have that honda ad in australia too, it's just amazing, must be one of the best ad i have ever seen

 

The honda as is a classic! Rube Goldberg lives on...

(btw -- I seriously doubt a lot of the claims written in the above background of the ad -- it stinks of classic Internet "didya here?" mythology....)

 

"Status: True".

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