FityOne

Folks check this out !!! Awesomely creative and fun.
It is well worh the bandwidth.



http://home.comcast.net/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html

Though instead of a Honda Civic, I wish they did it with a 951.

2+2

That is amazing!

AndyK

How did they get the wheels to roll UP that ramp??

Robert D

Its all digitally edited.

Manning

It is actually a RHD Accord wagon. That has been floating around for 3 or 4 months now.

Anyway, that whole thing is supposedly real (that is no computer animation), except for one part, the muffler rolling.

The wheels are supposedly weighted heavily on top to cause them to roll up the ramp. If you look carefully you can actually see where the ramp has little steps to hold the wheels in place to keep them from rolling backwards.

pete944

I've seen that before and it is incredible. I heard they did hundreds of takes before everything worked just right.

Ag951

They have off-center weights in them at about 1 o'clock.
When the wheel is motionless, the weights' gravitational pull creates a clockwise torque equal to the counter clockwise torque created by gravity trying to pull the whole wheel down the ramp.
When the wheels get bumped, the weight moves out towards 2 or 3 o'clock and gravity pulls the front side of the wheel down, so the wheel has to rotate.
If you'd like to experiment, put a heavy magnet on the inside wall of a soup can and try it for yourself.

The rolling muffler was faked. They didn't have a large enough area to do the whole thing, so they did two scenes and blended the muffler parts.

Manning

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/?http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/ae...y.php?id=35788

Ag951

If you look really closely, you can see Wyle E. Coyote's reflection in the mirror.
The whole thing was designed to trap that damn Roadrunner.

Mine44

LOL