i presume everyone else in the known galaxy has seen this ad on television. bj�rn sent me the link a week or two ago. i found this daily telegraph article linked to on a plastic.com piece.

“it was like watching a brilliant footballer weaving his way the whole way through a defending team’s players, and then shooting wide right at the end,” says tony davidson. the crew resorted to placing bets on which part of the sequence would go wrong. invariably it was the windscreen wipers. when the final, 606th take eventually succeeded, there was a stunned silence around the paris studio. then, like shipwrecked mariners finally realising that their ordeal was at an end, the team broke into a careworn chorus of increasingly defiant cheers and hurrahs. champagne bottles popped. the cylinder liner had brushed its nose affectionately against the rocker shaft and the gear wheel cog for the last time. the interior grab handles and the suspension spring coils had done their bit. a classic was complete. cog was in the can.

good work all round.