OK, have you guys seen this

[azoomee]

LINK

No special effects, all done by the cars -- amazing stuff........

 

[Eli]

What's an Izuzu?

 

[Eli]

Hmm.. that video was somehow cool.

 

[Taggart]

I was expecting Joe Isuzu

 

[iamwiz82]

That's pretty freakin' cool, but i was expecting Joe Isuzu.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

:Q

 

[amdforever2]

Either they did use special effects or many isuzus were harmed during the production of this film.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
That's pretty freakin' cool, but i was expecting Joe Isuzu.

Me too

 

[azoomee]

Originally posted by: Taggart
I was expecting Joe Isuzu

LOL -- wonder what happened to that guy?

 

[tm37]

Joe Izuzu

 

[sniperruff]

wtf how do the 4 cars do 360 turns by themselves with no smoke? shens.

IIRC those are actually pretty good cars.

 

[dawnbug]

Amazing! It made me want one. Seriously.

Well, maybe not. It was still really cool, though.

 

[Akhen]

impressive to say the least

 

[BobDaMenkey]

I loved the part towards the end with the red and yellow one doing the close formation reverse manuvers.

 

[Quasmo]

It made me think of live action Initial D and the 86.

 

[EyeMWing]

The first segment (formation driving) was straight up professional driving (and I think is the basis for prettymuch every car commercial today, hahaha) - except the flying ones. Those were probably launched off a cannon or something. After that, it gets cheap stage tricky. Still no "special effects" as we think of them today, though (editing)

Some of those 2-wheel balance scenes and some of the jump scenes looked to be legitimate ramp and balance action, though.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

at least one of the segments the cars were tied together to maintain position

 

[slayer202]

pretty damn cool, and impressive driving even if all of it wasn't 100% legit

 

[gsellis]

In the subway, they could handbrake the corner, but there was a frame where it looked like the rear wheel turned too. Too compressed to tell. No cannons. Just ramps. Cannons leave a "smoke" trail (Freejack used a cannon to fire the Formula Atlantic replica into the turn 11 bridge at Road Atlanta. The compressed air had a vapor trail.)

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
how do the 4 cars do 360 turns by themselves with no smoke? shens.

the 4-cars-360 part was probably done by placing the cars on a merry-a-go-round platform. I don't think all 4 cars spin in harmony.

but the rest... oh boy, that's some good old fashion driving skill.

 

[Goosemaster]

looks like they ripped off Audi..unless it was the other way around

 

[MazerRackham]

The stunt drivers probably had A LOT of fun making those commercials...