This is truly an amazing ad -- Mr. Goldberg would be proud. :) I gotta know though, how did they get the tires to roll up the ramp?

there's 'contraweights' in them... Like little metal balls that also roll, this making the rolling effect... eh.. "Rollier". :) Seriously. Ballbearings... is that the word I'm looking for?

The sounds are great, and that window-opening bit is a great 'cliffhanger'. Can you imagine how sick of the line "isn't it nice how things just ..work" the team behind this must have gotten after 606 takes?

Yes! Truly truly amazing.

I remember that a talk show did comment on this a while back. I thoght that it was funny when I saw it there. Now I can watch this marvel over and over! Nice Intermachineing work though!

Anyone growing up in England in the 1970's as I did will be troubled by the inescapeable similarity this spot has to an Open University programme about kinetic power and motion. This Honda commercial mimicked the idea in that programme, subsitituting the various components with automotive parts. I wonder how many people marvel at this film without realising it is not original but a blatant copy.

We did a story on that as well, A wrench in the Cog as the creators of Der Lauf Der Dinge Peter Fischli and David Weiss were considering legal action against Honda.

I love that it's the same guy doing the voice over as the guy in the Honda "Hate" spot for diesel engines.

Isn't it one of the guys from the creative team?