Honda’s transforming Rose Parade drift in action

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With all of yesterday’s excitement by the availability of TV converter box coupons, we totally spaced on the annual Rose Parade, featuring that crazy ASIMO-piloted, transforming Ridgeline drift from Honda. Well luckily a member of the

YouTube nation was able to (rather shakily) capture a full transformation sequence on home video, which you can catch in three parts after the break.

Our take? Pretty impressive for a parade drift, but pit that achingly-slow changer against any one of the Decepticons in a RoboOne-style deathmatch, and Honda would have a lot of truck-plane pieces to sweep up […]

Orginal post by Evan Blass

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