British Honda Commercial

[Olaf]

A British friend e-mailed this commercial to me. It's running in the UK right now. It's BRILLANT! And since I'm a Honda owner, I have to say I agree with them.

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Honda UK

 

[Jeff in BigD]

That's great!

I'm a Honda driver too, but now that they've changed the body style of the Accord & I hate it, I'm probably going to get a Nissan or one of the new Mustangs.

 

[Sharby]

Brilliant commercial!

Thanks for sharing it!

 

[Dan Murphy]

How very creative. I marvel at how some minds can be that original. And so 'very Honda-like'. Great cars, had the original Accord hatchback in '76 and the original 4-door Accord in '82, both wonderful cars. Thanks for the link.

 

[Olaf]

I thought you guys would like it. Reminds me of a superbowl commercial. What ya wanna bet we never see it over here? Sometimes I think the powers that be underestimate American's attention span.

 

[Cindy B]

We will probably never see it here.. I have to agree.


It was very interesting.. and we had a 1978 Honda Accord.. we loved it!

 

[CynJ]

This was great!!!!

 

[Jeff in BigD]

The Honda commercials always remind me of the Apple commercials. Both companies with dependable products.

 

[Towncrier]

I downloaded the commercial (11Mb) when I heard about it on slashdot.org (News for Nerds). According to the article there, this commercial is NOT computer generated animation (with the exception of a single scene). They actually setup the entire "Rube Goldberg" apparatus. It apparently took 606 takes to get everything to work. The commercial was shot in two pieces. The only piece of CG animation is in the middle and was used to join the two sections of the commercial.

I also seem to remember that it cost $7.5 million to produce this commercial. It is one of the neatest commercials that I have ever seen. I believe that the commercial was available at Honda dealerships in Great Britain on DVD. I would bet that they ran out of those free DVDs very quickly.

 

[Wishydoo]

Excellent commercial...thanks for sharing it!

 

[helenabear]

That is a great commercial!!! I love it!!!!

 

[Olaf]

I'm bumping this. It's just too good to miss.

 

[Grog]

Very cool. I've always thought the Brits had our advertising guys beat when it comes to commercials