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Apparently they top-loaded the wheels with ball bearings so they could go up the ramp. Just brilliant!
I have an "insiders" article at work about the making of this (some 600 takes!!
) that I'll have to post here tomorrow.
I have an "insiders" article at work about the making of this (some 600 takes!!
) that I'll have to post here tomorrow.
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Very smooth, roomy, gets more positive comments than I expected. Good Stereo, handles well, feels more solid than I anticipated. No problems in 9 days and 200 miles...
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Hey Destiny
How do you like the Element?
Hey Destiny
How do you like the Element?
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FYI, interesting info (second hand, I don't vouch for this) on the making of this puppy. Sorry if it's already been posted:
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The following is an article from a British publication regarding the commercial.
Take # 606!
http://yoonakim.johnnylin.net/spanky.htm
Lights! Camera! Retake!
(Filed: 13/04/2003)
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 -
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The following is an article from a British publication regarding the commercial.
Take # 606!
http://yoonakim.johnnylin.net/spanky.htm
Lights! Camera! Retake!
(Filed: 13/04/2003)
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 -
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