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mazdabetty
04-07-2009, 06:26 PM
I just saw this Honda commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI2MFvOC94A) and had no idea that this road even existed! It's pretty cool, anyone else heard of it before? I did some reading on it here: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/the-road-as-roc.html

A clip from the article:

"From Autopia's "Most Annoying Promotion Ever" department comes this dispatch from Lancaster, California, where Honda's marketing team joined forces with the city to turn a stretch of road on the edge of town into a giant LP that plays "The William Tell Overture," which you might more readily recognize as the theme to The Lone Ranger.

The quarter-mile stretch of Avenue K renamed "Civic Musical Road" features grooves cut into the pavement in such a way as to make the tires resonate to the tune of Gioachino Rossini's classic symphony. The road, which Honda claimed sounded best when "played" on a new Civic going exactly 55 miles per hour, was just one of four "melody roads" in the world and the first in America."

I wonder what Mazda's theme song would be :whoa

Hives
04-07-2009, 07:35 PM
i'd freak out and wait for the car to blow up lol.

x_o_k_x
04-07-2009, 07:37 PM
reminds me a spot on 401 on the way to Ottawa, it has test lines for few min of driving

mazdabetty
04-08-2009, 12:17 AM
Even crazier... an F1 car playing 'God Save the Queen' with engine revs?? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEqlNU30Tg




reminds me a spot on 401 on the way to Ottawa, it has test lines for few min of driving

haha ohhh yeahhh!!! That always trips me out..... :P

Sergiomax11
04-08-2009, 12:22 AM
mazda's would be like ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM going 140 down the road lol

b.rabbit
04-08-2009, 12:25 AM
If that were an every day road, I think I'd go crazy.. Would probably avoid it to listen again.

azn_outlaw
04-08-2009, 12:28 AM
mazda theme song you ask?

hummmm the way that the OEM horn is on the Mazda3 you could do either these two songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpc5_3B5xdk

or

even worse this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwhGF-rnrhs

STeeLy
04-08-2009, 05:27 PM
haha ohhh yeahhh!!! That always trips me out..... :P

I love those paint test strips, they're so awesome!

mazdabetty
04-08-2009, 10:35 PM
Yeahh they're alright I guess... they'd be even better if they played music though.... the Benny Hill theme would be awesome!!!

Donutz
04-08-2009, 10:58 PM
The idea of the 'musical road' has been around for some time. I believe it was in Europe where the idea originated; the plan was to have a stretch of busy road that played classical music if you travelled the correct speed. Too fast and the noise was intended to be annoying.

Blue_Jinnee
04-09-2009, 01:46 PM
then what ? :chuckle

laksman91
04-09-2009, 09:01 PM
pretty cool!