I apologize if everyone has already seen this...I did a search and did not come up with anything...I thought it was truly amazing and wanted to share...

I also apologize if this is the incorrect forum to post this...


http://onlinetonight.net/images/hhonda-ad-300k.swf

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 -

 

Yep, its been posted over a million times already.

 

If I was clever and motivated I would post one of those pictures of a bunch of guys that says "welcome to last week/month" etc.

but i'm not.

 

Thats a lot of times!!!!

 

The vid is a repost (1 of 100) but the text has not been posted. It s a interesting read.

Thanks for the repost. Of all of the posts for this ad, this one is by far the best. The text alone make is a keeper.

 

Text has been posted and posted and posted, as well as the vid..

stop the madness...this is becoming the damn s2000r!