No, Ed, it didn't - it was done (after a zillion tries) in one take. Where do you think it had "help"??That Honda ad had some "help" in spots I think.
Here's where you get that impression - snopes checked it out, it worked the way it looked, but they had to break it into two sections because they didn't have a studio big enough to do it in one, apparently. The sections were joined in video at the muffler sequence.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp
Are you implying they would mislead with a commercial??? Say it ain't so!Yeah, I'm wondering if when they spliced the two shots they gave the muffler an extra roll or two. I just don't see it making that many rotations. I've never seen one roll that far with that much obliqueness to it.