Honda Australia launches ‘Are You Type R?’ digital campaign via Leo Burnett, Melbourne
Honda Australia has launched a new digital content-driven campaign via Leo Burnett Melbourne, showcasing the brand’s all-new hot hatch, the Civic Type R, pushing both the car and selected Australian athletes to their limits.
The ‘Are you Type R?‘ digital campaign defines what it means to be the quintessential ‘Type R’ personality by experiencing the extensive shift to an athlete’s mind and body when put through their paces in a heart-racing Civic Type R hot lap.
Says Scott McGregor, general manager customer and communications, Honda Australia: “Anything we post through our social channels on Civic Type R absolutely explodes. One post alone that showed the very first customer cars arriving in Australia and coming off the ship reached over 250,000 people organically.
“We have such an engaged and enthusiastic Civic Type R customer base, particularly on Facebook, so it’s the ideal platform to speak directly to them with content created specifically for them.”
The athletes involved in the campaign were selected based on their adrenalin-pumping professions – V8 Supercar driver Melinda Price, big wave surfer Danny Griffiths, and parkour athletes Brodie and Dylan Pawson, who rose to fame thanks to their dominance on Australia’s Ninja Warrior.
The footage was shot locally in Melbourne with a mix of hand-held cameras and GoPros fitted to both the vehicle and the athletes, ensuring every angle and real-life reaction was captured.
Sport scientist, Shannon Barnes, from Victoria University Melbourne recorded real-time data showing how the athlete’s bodies reacted to the hot-lap. Heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, G-forces and cortisol levels were measured before, during and after the experiment to determine which of the athletes were ‘Type R’.
Honda’s new Civic Type R launched in October and has racing in its DNA. It set the new benchmark lap time for a front-wheel drive car around the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany in April.
The ‘Are You Type R?’ content is LIVE on the Honda website at www.honda.com.au/areyoutyper.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sQBtmYHOQ
A classic long-line idea. Good chumming and hook placement.
I can absolutely attest that these videos cured my insomnia
Can’t believe you would PR this after Lexus did it 2years ago and better.Do these people live in a bubble?
People drive round track, their heart rate goes up up and their skin gets hotter?
Science
“Brodie and Dylan Pawson, who rose to fame thanks to their dominance on Australia’s Ninja Warrior.” Honda really spared no expense on this one. What a boring, unoriginal campaign.