cool accord wagon commercial "COG"

[VTEC]

Honda ad

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/honda-ad.html

 

[J32a2OwnsU]

Thats kind of impossible, how did the tires go uphill? But cool vid none the less.

 

[VTEC]

i dont think it was ment to be real just cool

 

[anfrey]

this IS real. this has been reposted a shitload of times. to make the wheels go "upward" they were counterweighted. this ad took 606 shots to get right. people were tiptoeing around the set, scared to mess things up

here's the ad from honda UK's website: http://www.honda.co.uk/newcars/300k.swf

 

[J32a2OwnsU]

I figured as much. But according to Ebaums caption. It tried to make it APPEAR as though it was real.....

 

[anfrey]

ebaum is a f**king moron.

 

[J32a2OwnsU]

So it is real?

 

[anfrey]

yes it IS real.... read up: http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html

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. During the pre-shoot set-ups, film assistants had to tiptoe round the set so as not to disturb the feather-sensitive superstructure of the arranged metalwork. The slightest tremor of an ill-judged hand could have undone hours of work.

 

[anfrey]

i just merged all the threads about this that i could find

 

[J32a2OwnsU]

Like I said, Im no physics guru, and I just learned somthing new. Thanks Anf!

 

[boricuacvc]

nice vid guys...

 

[CrAzE191st]

umm the tires going uphill look weird to me and the second one keeps going up even after it hits the third one wats up wit that but other than that its hot

 

[RainyDaze]

that one is awesome. I saw that one at Anf's house a few months ago though

 

[anfrey]

reposted a gajillion times and the tires thing has been explained 11ty billion times as well. i will now merge the threads... this commercial was first posted nearly 2 years ago.

 

[rehabb]

Technology these days....

this is amazing.....if its real http://www.big-boys.com/articles/hondaad.html

 

[slowsi]

except for the obvious gravity defying wheels that go up the ramp

 

[hooked_on4]

um UBER-REPOST

 

[rei]

haha.. accord wagon.. mmm..

 

[korz]

omfg newb alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

u been in jail or some s**t?

and yea just for the record those wheels were balanced to do that..

 

[rehabb]

korz whats your problem man?