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08-20-2004, 12:58 PM
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No explitive is quite enough for how cool this commercial is!!
You seriously have to check this out....I know, I know..it's not a Mercedes commercial, but it is still freaking increadible!! And apparently totally real.
 Unbelievable.http://www.pirate.ca/spot_of_the_week/archive/spot_honda_niceWhenThingsWork.html (It may take a minute to load but it is WORTH it!)
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08-20-2004, 01:10 PM
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Well, I watched it, and I think it's one of those urban legends regarding it's reality. The part that really looks faked is where the tires are accelerating UP the steep ramp. I could maybe see the rest happening, maybe.
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08-20-2004, 01:35 PM
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Yea I was thinking the same thing as those tires were going up the ramp.
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#4
08-20-2004, 01:52 PM
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The commercial is real, I remember when it was in the news a couple of years ago. Apparently it took several hundred takes to get it to work completely. The gravity defying wheels were heavily weighted on one side to get them to roll uphill.
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08-20-2004, 03:30 PM
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It's real...
Yup, that one is real. I saw the story on the news a few months back as well.
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08-20-2004, 03:31 PM
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#7
08-20-2004, 03:40 PM
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606 Takes!
I've been known to be patient, but not quite that patient! Well that is unless somebody is paying me a lot of money to be.
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#8
08-20-2004, 05:05 PM
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I still don't buy it. Bing weighted doesn't explain why the second to last tire hovers next to the other one in defience of gravity, unless by weighted they mean there's some sort of spool attached to the other side with a weight on a cable or something. But then it's not really using parts from a real car, is it?
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#9
08-20-2004, 05:33 PM
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If there is a big enough weight in the tire, it should be able to hold the tire on that incline... I don't see how the tire sequence is not believable. Every piece I have ever seen on this ad (which is rather famous by now) has said it's the real deal.
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