Automotive Trivia
1. The Great Honda Advertising Experience...
And you thought those people who set up roomfuls of dominos to knock over were amazing???
There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film you can see here. 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 viewing's", alone.
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 Honda 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) is 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.
CLICK HERE to view the commercial. *with your sound ON and turned UP!
2. Talk about Lucky!
Ok, so imagine you live in Portugal and you are looking to buy a new house. You find a lovely farm house set in a decent plot of land.
The place has been empty for 15 years!
While exploring your new property, you find a large barn on the property. The door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. So you grind the padlock open.........
And inside are over 180 antique vehicles. Some as old as the 20s. Covered with a severe layer of dust, and in various states of repair.
CLICK HERE to see all the cars.
3. Parking Techniques you "Gotta See!"
These short video clips take a "quick minute" to download. You'll get a kick out of some of the techniques... and most of us are still wondering how many cars they "don't show" that they crashed before they perfected the techniques shown here...
CLICK HERE for Parking Video #1.
CLICK HERE for Parking Video #2.
CLICK HERE for Parking Video #3.
***with your sound ON and turned UP
4. Brazilian Toyota Commercial (Humorous)
This 32 second commercial will 'shock' you with the outcome. Subtitles are provided since the commercial is, after all, a Brazilian commercial. Have your sound on and enjoy the music but read the subtitles... Enjoy and Click HERE to see it. It's perfectly safe to open and view the the windows video presentation.
Stay tuned for more...