1972 Honda 600 Commercial

[felixjazzage]

Is she one of the "options not included"?

She's cute, the cars are rubbish, and that gong at the end was way too much.

[MKUltraProject]

Boklaue

[fuckyourmother1960]

I would lick her pussy and asshole than fuck her mouth

[gunny426plymouth]

What? I swear if they made commercials like this now I wouldn't have to hate Japanese cars as much, because well I wouldn't buy a car with a commercial like that!

[d3ejmz]

Cool Coupe... you can see style elements that were still used in the 82 prelude.

[punkmonkey123]

This isn't racist.

[provisionaldude]

btw didnt at the end was an earthquake!

[provisionaldude]

Honda sucked back in the 70's, honda didnt through the late 80s and started to suck in 2007 with its shiitty style! Jeez, lets go back to the 80's and 90's when cars were just perfect and not crap like shit like MP3, bluetooth and etc!

[hfcarwash]

philapino amarican?

[C0NT3NDER]

I didnt my aunte Ming Ming was a honda model

[harleyjamesg]

For your presure!

[Supergungun]

She stole your job.

[vandalaylatex6969]

what the fuck is a robster craw?

[dion1959]

She's hawt!

[hondaboii89]

Derivaree!

[Michaelpatrickwarren]

She was the best english speaking model they could find?

[rubbersole79]

me so hohnee....

[gunny426plymouth]

lol that cars so small it makes poontang look tall!

[jeffersonianideal]

Optional, high output Singer sewing machine engine available at extra charge.

[dequinox]

One boob was seriously higher than the other... WEIRD @.@

[tinderinc]

@dequinox most girls boobs are like that some are just way more notice able. look around you will see

[killshot13000]

press 0:32 to skip adds

[pictureisup1]

does she come with the car?

[hullinger]

No bookoo, no bookoo. Me bang bang long time.

[Spannermonkeys]

What i heard...

....." here's a new car from bab roosentla,so you need to drive in park,so easy to buy only 16.95....and this sports coop is available too.....blah blah blah....its all free of pressure only 16.95 made by largest motorbike manufacturer in history...blah blah blah" ....BOWIONNGGG...

I love this ad!! XD

[bikeyoda]

That was not an earthquake it was Godzilla lol

[ThrowMeFromTheSky]

Yellow one looks like the great-grandfather of the CRZ

[mrtheroosterdude]

WTF? What did she say say and what the hell is up with the earthquake at the end !? If only I could understand the 60's.

[ohdantheman]

YOU CAN KEEP THAT JAP SCRAP WITH A MOTORCYCLE ENGINE IN IT,ID RATHER HAVE A 72 BUICK ELECTRA 225 LIMITED 455 C.I. W/4 BBL CARB.!

[riceboy1701e]

@ohdantheman And you are happy with paying $4 per gallon and getting 15 gallons to the mile?

Ok...whatever floats your boat...er, land yacht.

[phambo101]

OKAY, U.S.A!!!

[Angerfist2]

wtf did she just said?

[herbienbrian2]

DERIVERD IMIDIATRY!

[quirpco]

No happy ending?

[Jaket2000]

She's hot them hondas.... not.

[PUREAAMERICAN]

Wish the girls at the asian massage looked like her.

[streesmut70]

Sedan? it's 3Dr liftback

[SnowWhiteDove7]

wow what a cheap price! i love her outfit so psychedelic

[streesmut70]

Wow $1695

[WhiteIceMan3]

racist using a girl with the accent. what's wrong with an american girl?

[duncanedwards036]

@WhiteIceMan3 In case you hadn't noticed its a Japanese car in 1972. The roads weren't exactly filled with them then. I remember the first time I saw a Honda sport coupe like the one advertised. We were riding in my dad's '72 Oldsmobile 98 with a 7.7 liter engine. My dad nearly wet himself laughing at the thing. We thought it was s circus prop or something. I doubt seriously you could have paid an American girl to speak up for it then. Japan was still foreign to us. Now I work for Nissan.

[WhiteIceMan3]

@duncanedwards036 wow, so that makes us asians the ones that are laughing, just not to the point where we need to use you're john.

[duncanedwards036]

@WhiteIceMan3 Actually, yeah. She's messing with the stereotypical barge driving American of the day. It just took us thirty years to get the joke. :)

[lizz11]

$1695. you can't even get a good used car for that price now :(

[Get908]

I HAVEN'T seen a honda car i like yet. the one's ive had were crap

[MrRazorback23456]

10 ich tires



[GoliathAngelus]

wow,,she is cute indeed

[19zxcvbnm19]

derirer!y!

[YTRulesFromNM]

Damn she was smokin! It too bad that she would be really old by now.

Those earlier Honda cars sucked. It wasn't until about 1980 when their small cars became less bad than the American small cars.

[veeeektor]

0:14 did she say immediate deriverery?

[auaiao9]

@veeeektor she certainly did.

[DelilahThePig]

One of my favorite ads on here. Cute asian girl, check. Immaculate engineering, check. Adorable pronunciation of states. And then we get the ridiculous gong at the end. Perhaps a little racist nowadays, but I think it's hot.

[TheMelamia]

HUH????

[Srd1126]

Were these the chain-driven ones that were made in a hurry because MITI wanted Honda to merge with the rest of the lesser japanese makes of the era?

[newforestroadwarrior]

@Srd1126 Honda made a coupe called the S800 in the 1960s and experimented with dual chain drives to the back wheels, with chaincases that doubled as semi trailing arms.

The production cars apparently had a live back axle, so presumably either it didn't work or they thought it was too advanced.

[supermariogalaxian]

God...that car for the 1970's looked like it was made today. (The one on the right.) Now they are rust.

[weaponexpert1]

damn... i want to fuck her in a big american car

[landyachtfan79]

Am I the only one who finds that accent SO SEXY?!!

[siemenstraffic]

You need new car to drive long time? Honda drives fast, does not sucki sucki on gas.

[miamad]

I've got your "immediate delivery"... open wide.

Actually, she would be pushing 70 now.... no thanks.

[gunny556fly]

wha heeg a hooog auoodah hidy hidy ho thats all i here

cant belive you guys are jaw dropping for a pair of silicon bags tch.

[4gasem]

@gunny556fly I think they could have perhaps found a Japanese woman with LESS of an accent... Jeepers! I understood every fifth word I think...

[ClefDeDavid88]

She was charming. 

[Duncan2037]

She's completely hot. I watched a few times.

[Ryoku75]

My dad had one of these, it was nice at car shows but otherwise it was a piece of junk that rarely worked right.

[cubicleboy]

for immediate derivery.

[bettydaw1970]

do i get a happy ending for that price?

[FormulaDGoSpeedGo]

"Do you come with the car?" "oh you! hehehhehehe"

[Silvertrine]

Girl? She come with car? I buy.

[peter2000rock]

they need to bring them back

[redmond12400]

She is soooo cute.

[riceboy1701e]

options included...but not the girl. :-(

[isitu75]

hahahaahahahah der riv er e....lmfao

[skuzzydahippy]

i have a 1978 gremlin

[Flinty88]

PERIOD

[KosaiAvonej]

My uncle bought the sport coupe way back in the 70's, he says that regardless how slow it accelerated or how many people pestered him about buying a Japanese car it was hands down the best car he ever owned even to this day.

[Interests2009]

@KosaiAvonej--I know the feeling. I drive a 20 year old Honda, and the thing is horrible on acceleration. I am thinking in buying American at least once b/c I have had it with many of these ricers. They have potential but I am ready for a change. At least it's not European :-)

[jamesJulian1]

@KosaiAvonej hell yeah i bet.....everyone says the same. 

[AngryWhiteGurl]

What did she just say?!?!

[wolfzero85]

oh yes they know how to sell bad cars

[danosly]

options like kick starter and kickstand not included

[donleonardo1963]

Man! Is she cute, or what?!? I love the Honda Sedan— so easy to driveandpark; so easy to buy.

[WunderDoob]

So easy to drive and park, with a 2 CYLINDER MOTORCYCLE ENGINE.

[MisterShuckle]

Despite all the problems they may have had, I would gladly drive a 600Z (the yellow one) It's so strange and adorable that I wouldn't be able to resist it. XD

[ducatinova]

She didn't say anything about the free rust you would get after about a year or two of driving in the Virgina winters.

[BobbieandSteveDooley]

They were already rusting on the boat over from Japan!

[Watcher3223]

@ducatinova

Of course, American cars of the same vintage had that problem as well.

Ever hear of those Chevrolet Vegas rusting on the showroom floor?

[ducatinova]

LOL yeah, I work with a guy that said he bought a vega new. he said GM gave him new fenders every so often for free until the engine locked up. Then the car went to the junk yard.

[WunderDoob]

Did Godzilla attack at the end or something? wtf was that

[cilitbangdan]

i think so...

[Neville6000]

@WunderDoob: 'That' was a gong.

[kassandrasduplex]

YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY!!

(Anyone remember that tag line?)

This little girl was giving it her best despite the obvious slightly offensive racial overtones and the probability she wasn't Japanese! BTW for those who don't know, the early Hondas were awful cars, unreliable and dangerous. The early Civics had blown head gasket problems. And you didn't want to be hit in one by the contemporary American behemoths of the day. They've come a LONG way, Baby! The Chinese are next...

[quirpco]

You're right about the early models. My sister had a 1982 Civic, and at about 90K the head gasket failed.

[kassandrasduplex]

@quirpco In the late 70s I saw my share of early Civics roll by blowing steam out the tail pipes. Currently Toyota has the largest number of recalls of any auto maker, including soon their dangerous "fly-by'wire" system for sudden acceleration . I drive a Chevy! Very happy with it.

[DuranDuranLiberty]

ya my chevy cavalier just keeps on goin with no problems at all

[wonzowe]

stop bashing the chinese.

[09204418448]

@wonzowe its japanesE?

[logwind]

OPTIONS NOT INCLUDED

[maestri09]

I don't think that girl is Japanese. She seems to have more of a Chinese look and accent.

[ChadtheRTF]

she's Japanese. listen to the way she pronounces her R's

[kz1000ps]

Damn, she's a cutie!

[onehundreddollars]

BWOONNNGGGG

[swampticks1942]

autoblog ftw...

OPTIONS NOT INCLUDED

KO-NEE-CHE-RAH

[Ryoukun16]

@swampticks1942 Really now?

[Kuahmel]

The sport coupe should be retroed some kinda way. Maybe a Fit-based version? Would obviously be bigger than this particular car, but it would be total laughs on twisty roads for sure.

Anyway, the commercial itself...she may be a cutie pie, but the whole Engrish speech and the gong shaking everything as if a giant robot was coming was pretty offensive.

[ExMxer]

Actually, the Fit and the Sport Coupe look exactly alike. They both would have the same cheap-ass interiors, wimpy motors, and barely adequate amount of metal to hold them up!

[Turbo66Coupe]

I lived near Bob Rosenthal in Arlington, Va. when I was a kid and remember when these little cars hit the streets. I wanted my mom to buy one!

When I started to drive I had a '79 Accord LX 5 speed and I swear to god it was THE BEST car I ever owned. I put about 140,000 on that car and drove all over the US in it, saw the whole California Coast, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Yellowstone, etc, etc, etc!

[michael174]

What a classic! Honda have come such a long way in a very short space of time

[riceboy1701e]

Frickin' A! She a HOT Japanese girl!

[hehe799]

hehe sput cuop

[SHOWA53]

This woman was very beautiful!

[SteelCity1981]

Asian women are hot.

[Poundingsand]

Don't I know it. I'm lucky enough to be dating one... : )

[fusinski]

I love anecdotal experience as the rule of law. Sorry about your luck on your last Taurus, but our Subaru has gone through two head gaskets in 80,000 miles.

This just in: Things with moving parts break sometimes.

[Watcher3223]

Although wear and tear with moving parts means a vehicle will require service from time to time, please do understand that competence in a design (or lack thereof) can mean a lot in extending that interval or decreasing it (or possibly even eliminating it).

For instance, a head gasket is supposed to last the life of the car so long as the engine and its related systems are made correctly AND the owner doesn't abuse the car and maintains it right.

If either one is wrong, a problem will occur.

[galoon]

I agree completely! I'm one of these types who is obsessive about car maintenance and sane driving habits! I'm positive that my experiences with the Taurus (yes it was one of those damn 3.8 liters!) were the result of design flaws. Instead of junking it, I should have mailed it to the Taliban. They'd have all died from laughing. I will concede that Ford's trucks seem to be pretty good--every owner I know is happy with them.

[Lumotaku]

Ford made good quality cars in the 70s I had a monarch and now a 78 Thunderbird that both have run trouble free. And the interiors were put together better back then too. None of the glue holding up the headliners like in modern cars.

[Watcher3223]

Regarding the Taurus another poster mentioned, that car did have numerous design problems with the AX series 4 speed transaxle and the 3.8L V6 OHV "Essex" engine (this engine was dubbed the "gasket eater" because it had rampant head gasket failure issues that went unresolved until around the mid-1990s, so it's most likely the other poster's car had the 3.8L).

[Watcher3223]

As an example for the AX series transaxle, the final drive planetary gears were prone to meltdown due to lack of fluid volume, despite correct fluid level. The fix is to modify the transaxle housing by enlarging the orifice that feeds fluid into the final drive as well as installing updated lube tubes. This is a labor-intensive fix requiring transaxle removal and tear down.

This is an example of a bad design resulting in a self-destructive component that no amount of maintenance will stop.

[pf126p]

You must have the 2,5-L generation 2 (1995-99)? An Outback or a GT? Stay away from that one. The 2.2 are fine.

[am1580]

I Owned a 1970 600 coupe. I had NO trouble with it. It was a Honda 600 2 cylinder motorcycle engine with a cab on it. I got up to 60 mpg in country & 40 in city. It had unbeleivably fast acceleration. I've talked to other early owners with same experience. The downside: aluminum engine wore out at about 100K miles. Also, service dealers were few & far apart. I did not have luck with girls that looked like the one in the ad. Most girls pointed at my car and laughed hysterically!

[janosleng73]

Cute little car and a very cute spokeswoman!

[SpeedGimp]

I think the 600 was one of the early "Kei cars". Japanese manufacturers still make cars like that, but they're not sold in North America. :(

Yeah, that spokeswoman is very easy on the eyes.

[krisdahl258]

Actually the Honda 600's weren't Kei Cars... had to be less than 360cc at that point. Modern Kei Cars are now 660cc.

[SpeedGimp]

Thanks for the clarification. :) Funny that at nearly double the size, the engines are still tiny.

[Interests2009]

It seems like the Washington, D.C. area is always the first for this sort of thing. A local dealership in my area has the yellow sports coupe on display kinda like a museum piece. The Civic has grown a lot since 1972. That thing is like a golf cart today. Thanks for sharing 5 stars.

[sortashaman]

@Interests2009 That seems to be true, about D.C. My grandad, who ran a foreign car repair shop in the 1950s-60s, had one of the early Datsun dealerships on the east coast; my family had a number of the early (to U.S.) Datsuns back then...always rather coveted a Datsun Roadster back then...

[Interests2009]

@sortashaman--That was a comment I posted a year ago. Nonetheless, that's amazing. As long as it's not that one wannabe hell hole (North Carolina), it's fine by me. Based on what you have told me, I can imagine many people did not work on these cars at the time (or did not even want to.)

[davidjratcliffe]

FOB

[yousawthis]

that girl was cute to bad Godzilla showed up at the end.

[BleedBNG]

Someone at the end of our street North 22nd in Arlington bought the sports coupe in blue. It was the first Honda car I'd ever seen. We used to laugh at it riding on the street saying here comes the little slot car.

[Interests2009]

I bet many people (especially those in very conservative areas in the country) also used to look at this car weird. I used to own a Toyota ECHO and I fell victim to that. The joke was on them b/c it was fairly fast for what it was and got better gas mileage than this Civic I drive now. It seems like the D.C. area is always a/one of the first to get stuff like this.

[goneutt]

Okay, apart from the accent this is the best car commercial I've seen from the early 70's. Ford had some really stupid ones, but this was direct.

[bagelboi66]

Hindsight is 20-20. If Detroit hadn't been so busy cranking out gas guzzling bourgemobiles and laughing at the funny looking little Asian cars rolling off the boat, they might not be in the fix they're in now.

[LaVerne37]

AGREE WITH YOU 100% Now the import dealers that have built plants in America are STILL not advertising cars that are #1 in Europe...case in point...Toyota Yaris has almost 80 commercial hits in Youtube for the European market...it is not even mentioned in national ads in the U.S.

Happy with my 2008 Yaris

[Lumotaku]

Detroits cars have always been better than the imported ones. Economics and unfair trade agreements are why detroit is in the condition it is now. Next

[galoon]

That hasn't been my experience. My last car was a Taurus, which blew head gaskets every 50,000 miles, went through 2 trannies, had a cruise control failure in which the cruise turned on and opened the throttle all the way while I was parking, and went through countless brake pads fast. All in 100,000 miles. My Toyota? 100,000 miles with NO problems whatsoever. Incompetent management is why detroit is in the shape it's in now.

[pf126p]

Like a lot of things in America, they pioneered the industry and lay on their laurels while the rest of the world surpassed them.

[tomprice494]

I saw one of those sports coupes going down the road today... it was about the same size as a smart car! Really cute though.

[peckerwood57]

Actually the Smart is huge compared to a z600.

[Nikovercetti]

Soichiro Honda rulez!!

[BobbieandSteveDooley]

$1695 derivery! What a deal!

[DannyBoy1587]

actually i think the worst car you could have bought in 1972 was the ford pinto. and after that the chevy vega.

[Lumotaku]

no the vega was worse but the pinto would own this. as a matter of fact a vw bug would own these pieces of shit. and thats literally what they were. Honda took some time to learn. If i was going to buy japanese in the early 70s it would have been datsun.

[boppiecat]

This car in no way competed with a Pinto, VW or Vega. It was a good five hundred or more dollars cheaper, and had a tiny two-cylinder chain-drive engine. It was basically regarded as a Yugo of its time, but probably made a decent city car. Too bad it predated the fuel crisis; 40+MPG.

[Lumotaku]

Even subarus were better than these.

[tomloft2000]

don't know about the car,but the girl was kinda cute.

[thx1164]

I want the yellow one!

[Tostito12345]

You are right in the begin Honda made bad cars, problem with bad carburators,  now they are one of the best.

[mariusz1239]

Beautiful cars :)

[superauctionstar]

This lady ain't Japanese. I've dated Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese ladies and, trust me, that accent ain't Japanese. It's gotta be either Chinese or Filipino.

[BifffromBurke]

Going to a massage parlor isn't dating. I don't trust you.

[superauctionstar]

Well, fine, by my experience in going to massage parlors throughout Asia, I can tell her accent isn't Japanese.

[timdelfin]

What a lipp-off! =)

[D0nQuix0te]

Dude, that comment was funny as hell

[xtravaganzagold]

haha! we just saw everything but the car

[yakkamobbfoob]

sucky sucky five dorra

[far916]

wow, sweet and sour...she is sweet and the car...well...sour

[neomrdo]

Oh, that shaking at the end was my HUGE package hitting the ground.

[neomrdo]

Dont worry guys, she still sounds the same when I get her from behind.

[Lumotaku]

You buy Car now Yankee! Flee japanese blide with every Honda you purchase now hahahaha we take over your market!

[plasmadis]

Where do I sign? :)~

[Lumotaku]

Plecision dliving machine you buy now  joe ok?

[ElectroGhost10]

Me so solly!

[TheAntihero6212]

What's with the shaking at the end?

[plasmadis]

It's a gong, part of the Asian theme they were going for.

[D0nQuix0te]

Wow....she is gorgeous

[beerbelly918]

I don't have a clue what she said but I liked the way she said it....

[SupraCelica98]

HAHAHA Immediate derivery.

[astro71]

my dad had one and was plain cool for a child be in a car where could actually see through the window due its size.

[imbok]

Wow, I'm in love...

[tokyofreaky]

asian girl, 1970's car and just a cool commerical keep up the good work!!

[CaptainPaintball]

Options not included... Uh, that's why they are called OPTIONS!!!

[D0nQuix0te]

Nice. You're right.

Hmm...I second the idea of hooking up with the fine looking spokesgirl! $1695.00 price is nice, and it was offered right here in Arlington Va where I currently live...that&