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Honda Cog Ad

submitted by dotdude

1 decade 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

4 days and 600 takes resulted in this Rube Goldberg-like Honda Ad called "Cog."

15 Comments

mlx

This is quite possibly the very first "viral video" I saw...I remember calling the family around to watch it.

Oh yeah! This is amazing! Too bad most people thought it was CGI. It cost...what?...half a mil? And they took apart 3 rare vintage cars or something....

Still...a great ad.

clever

*promote

rosspruden says...

$6 million price tag. 3 months to shoot. 606 takes. No CGI (except for small stuff like lighting).

Read the whole story here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28television_commercial%29

*geek seems appropriate

Video added to geek channel (geek called by gold star member Krupo)

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ad, ads, car, cars' to 'ad, car, honda accord, goldberg machine' - edited by looris

viral?

well, whatever.

*commercial

Adding video to channels (Commercial) - requested by looris.

*nochannel *commercial *engineering *wheels

This video has been removed from all channels (Commercial, Geek, Viral) due to invalid channel assignment - nochannel invoked by jonny. Please review the FAQ to learn about appropriate channel assignments.

Adding video to channels (Commercial, Engineering, Wheels) - requested by jonny.

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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