Edmunds dealer partner, Bayway Leasing, is now offering transparent lease deals via these forums. Click here to see May lease deals!
Options
Popular New Cars
Popular Used Sedans
Popular Used SUVs
Popular Used Pickup Trucks
Popular Used Hatchbacks
Popular Used Minivans
Popular Used Coupes
Popular Used Wagons
Comments
This guy brings his friend along with him to buy a new Eclipse. "So your finally buying a chick magnet" the friend says. The buyer brings up the engine, to which the friend replies "A V6 chick magnet!"
The buyer gets tired of the "chick magnet" references and walks away from his friend annoyed. The friend says something, while stroking his eyebrows, and a Mitsubishi service technician (mechanic) whispers "chick magnet" to him.
Why there was a mechanic in the showroom, I will never know. Mitsubishi ads sure are odd these days...
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
forward and reverse
I go forward and reverse
forward and reverse
I go forward and reverse
forward and reverse
Kitty litter
Oh yeahhhh.... RIGHT.... the RAV4 is so much sturdier and safer than a CR-V. THEY are BOTH TIN CANS!!! They are only as safe as what you get hit by!!!
If he's that concerned he should get her a Hummer so she can crush us while she talks to her friends about American Idol on her cel phone!
As far as to bring them back, that's debatable...
Yeah, but they have a ton of airbags available to help combat that. They are both probably equal on the safety scale. My 2000 RAV4 feels safe to me, so I would think the later models would be at least a little better, considering the generational change.
And with a teenage daughter, that's especially important considering how they drive, LOL!
Ummmmm... first you get bought out by GM...
Then they get rid of your hatchbacks
Then they stick your name on a Subaru
and they tell us you still have an identity???
PF Flyer
Host
Pickups & News & Views Message Boards
The MEMBER to MEMBER Chat is on tonight. Hope to see YOU there! Check out the schedule
Car looks nice, but I can't imagine what point they're trying to get across. The new Lexus is a spider which will suck you in? International superspies and cat burglers - this is the car for you? No idea, strange ad.
The race between Grand Cherokee and BMW must have been like a turtle vs a panther, enit? Awesome. Hope to see volcano ash soon.
They also had an old Lincoln Mark IV with a big Mini Cooper badge on the front, and the copy read "sometimes an oversized logo can make a large car appear to be smaller. This particular example almost slipped past un-noticed, until an observer happened to take a tape measure to it"
The other night I saw a commercial, and it was pretty funny. They tried to back some big 60's battlecruiser into a parallel spot that, in all seriousness, a real MINI would probably have a problem with, and it took out one of the parked cars! Then they showed a MINI zipping through a slalom course of road cones. Then along comes the Mark IV, and it just plows them all down.
Pretty cute overall, even if it is poking fun at the types of cars that I love! :shades:
One part of the commercial that annoys me the most is when one of the kids says, "Who's gonna tell you if the Check Engine light is something serious, or nothing at all?" The reason it annoys me is for one, why would a kid care about what lights up on the dashboard, and two, a CEL means nothing but a loose gas cap like 99% of the time anyway. It should be a "Check Gas Cap" light instead.
But, yeah, I'm all for the elimination of using kids in car ads all together. Glad Mazda got the memo, apparently GM must have lost it...
Talk about exploitive.
On the other hand, my first thought when seeing the new Pontiac G-6 ads was "can the exhaust note really sound that good??"
Of course, I grew up with those Doyle Dane Bernbach VW ads - like the two tire tracks in the snow, and 'How does the snowplow driver get to work?'. I cannot name an ad campaign, for any product, that is as quietly effective as those.
"My favorite car ad to this day, some 6 or 7 years later, is that Jetta ad in which everything starts working in synch with the Jetta's windshield wipers. It was simple, quiet, no kids, and fascinating!"
The song was Da Da Da by Trio. (in the Jetta commercial)
It's in a serious tone and you think the guy is late to his own wedding (giving marketing a chance to show the Jetta's power) but when he finally gets there, it appears he's trying to interupt the wedding because he loves the girl. Of course you could probably see it a couple of different ways, but that was my take on it.
Great commercial.
Sorry, the G6 wouldn't stand a chance against an Altima (or Accord for that matter). The Nissan would run circles around that hunk O' garbage without question.
Another OnStar annoyance, the HotButton. I am particularly aggravated by the one where the person working at a space station ready to launch a space shuttle by pushing a button, but then stops just before actually pushing it. Then the announcer says something like, "Save that push for something really important" and then goes on about a lease deal on a lame base-model Malibu. Like leasing a car the government already has plenty of is more important than launching a space shuttle. Gimme a break, please.
And the song, "Push It" by Salt n Peppa (yes, that's how it's spelled) doesn't help matters much either, as the song was annoying when it came out more than a decade ago and still is to this day.
My favorite ads now are the "Moving Forward" truck ads by Toyota, in particular the one where they get a Tundra and the boat in tow airborn. The ads for their cars aren't nearly as good.
People forget, the car companies don't make these ads. They hire an ad agency...maybe the same ad agency that makes that terrible commercial for the brand you hate maybe also makes the great ad for the brand you love.
Girl in Ford: "Wow, that sunk fast"
Guy in Ford: "Like a rock"
Hey, speaking of old VW commercials, wasn't there one where that had Speed Racer in it? IIRC, he traded in the Mach V for a new Jetta, and they showed him racing around with Spritle and Jim-Jim in the trunk, which was much more commodious than the Mach V's? I kinda remember him knocking the Scooby gang in their Mystery Machine off the road in a fiery wreck, but I might be getting a VW ad and a Cartoon Network plug mixed up! :shades:
If you are saying that I am biased against and for certain make's commercials, that's not true. I bash many lame commercials equally!
Or are you referring to I_luv_toyota's post? If I recall, he/she has bashed toyota commercials repeatedly in this forum.
Saw that the other day. I agree, cool idea.
It talked about having more rear-room in the Equinox and ended by saying the Equinox is 11k cheaper. What an inane commercial! Nothing against the Equinox (actually I like neither the Eq nor the RX) but who would honestly be cross-shopping these two in the first place?
Please correct me if I misheard the models.
Also noticed they modified the G6 ad to "You won't find more standard horsepower in an Altima 2.5". And for 6 grand less I wouldn't expect to...
" cool, huh ?! "
kinda nice...and to the point.
Like the ad in some magazines, that shows a sexy girl, who says
" I have needs too" and it is an ad about Triumph motorcycles...
oops...it is about motorcycles, not cars...welll...sorry.