Jay Leno recently drove the new 2010 Mercedes AMG SLS (gull wing) on a Hollywood street cirucit of his own devising in a 6 1/2-minute HiDef Internet video shot by Jeremy Hart using HiDef cameras.
Check out “The Fast and Famous” video homage to the cult favorite 8 1/2-min. “Rendevous” short made by Claude Lelouche in 1976 featuring a supposedly single take of a high-speed dash through the streets of Paris at dawn from the view of a single camera mounted on the front of the car, a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9.
Leno also did his 13-mile drive in a single take just past dawn on a Sunday morning, but he also provided running commentary and did two other drives on two other mornings, with Hart mounting three cameras on the car for cutaways (two HiDef Iconix mini cameras used in studio 3D movies and for other special effects, and one HiDef Sony camera). The set-up can be seen in the 5 1/2-minute making-of video beneath the primary video below.
— By Scott Hettrick
This is pretty badass, good story Scott.