Car Commercials, the good, the bad, and the annoying!

ateixeira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5GD5_gRGiI&feature=player_embedded

I gotta say, this type of viral marketing is pretty genius. Rhys isn't as well known as, say, Ken Block, but I bet the 18-25 year olds are eating this stuff up.

fintail

The same ones who don't really like cars at all? The ones who are into cars seem to have some of the same stereotypes about the brand as others.

There's been a Millen-Hyundai link for ages, guess this makes sense. The turbo model couldn't come soon enough, give it actual cred.

stever

Suzuki Relies on Dogs To Pitch 2012 Kizashi in Super Bowl Ad

ab348

Kizashi? Do they still make that?

A dog pitching a dog. Appropriate.

stever

Edmunds says that the "2012 Suzuki Kizashi is one of the best among midsize sedans."

2012 Suzuki Kizashi Sedan

loncray

Gesundheit! :P

ateixeira

There's been a Millen-Hyundai link for ages

I thought it was fairly recent.

Uncle Steve (Stillen) always focused on Nissan.

Rod Millen (Rod Millen Motorsport) did Mazda/Ford for a while, and didn't he switch to racing Tacomas in Hill Climbs? When I had my '91 Escort GT I ordered parts from RMM.

Rhys has been drifting, I think since the Genesis coupe came out, right? Not sure to be honest.

ateixeira

VW and now Suzuki, this bowl has gone to the dogs!

fintail

Many years anyway. I still don't see how drifting is some kind of sport, either. Zzz

xrunner2

Gesundheit!

Someone contact Leno staff. "What is Kisashi?" would be a good question for Jay to ask the man/woman on the street.

More creative though than CTS, TL, 3, MKZ, etc,

ateixeira

I agree but that probably means we're both too old. :sick:

ateixeira

I guess they market LED lights now, and not cars?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw9ZeXB2uKs&feature=player_embedded

That's for an S7?

ateixeira

I like this one, but they inadvertently make FWD look helpless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WKGDCY7YaA&feature=player_embedded

xrunner2

There's been a Millen-Hyundai link for ages, guess this makes sense.

The Hyundai Veloster got plenty of product placement, almost a commercial, when it was reviewed on new cable tv show, last Tues night, on Velocity channel, Vincenza Garage. The Host, Courtney Hansen, was asking many questions about the deep red colored car. (She has own web site at her name .com)

Previously, last Autumn, Courtney Hansen was riding with Rhys Millen who was practicing for a drifting event in his Hyundai Genesis coupe at a track when the engine caught fire. Both escaped the car unscathed.

ateixeira

That show (Vinsetta's Garage) has been sort of disappointing. I expected a lot, given I'd read Autoweek for a while, and it's less mainstream and more enthusiast-focused.

But...it so weak on content. They show sponsor logos every chance they get, so it feels like one long commercial.

The highlight is when they're sitting around the office and they each list their favorite _________.

ateixeira

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/27/matthew-broderick-to-reprise-ferris-bueller-r- - ole-in-honda-super/

this means the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider will not be appearing, replaced, according to the report, by a 2012 Honda CR-V

That's criminal...

Actually, maybe it's not, if that's what gets pushed off the cliff.

Plus that 250 GT was fake, IIRC.

fintail

Glitter vampires have as much to do with cars as LEDs have to do with good taste.

You can get tack on LEDs for anything, I think I saw them on an old Astro van not long ago.

fintail

A CRV?!

Grace!

Ferris loses a lot of cool as a middle aged guy in a Honda, sorry to say.

ateixeira

And now I can't get that silly tune out of my head....

Doh-doh. Chi Chi-KAHHHH...

lemko

Could be worse, he could be driving a Prius! I wonder if Cameron has a new M5? He had a beater Bimmer in the original movie.

fintail

I hope there is no remake. No John Hughes = no go. Most everything he made was great, and he was even good at casting cars.

fintail

Cameron actually had a junky 70s Alfa sedan. I assume his dad the car guy gave it to him.

Seeing how Ferris theorized that Cameron would go for his first girl and be owned by her, he'd probably be in that Prius or maybe an RX :shades:

lemko

Wonder what Mr. Rooney would be driving today? He had either a Plymouth Reliant or Dodge Aries in the first movie.

stever

That show (Vinsetta's Garage) has been sort of disappointing.

I caught a bit of it last week visiting friends who have the Dish. The segment was one of those YouTubish style dashcam/blond model type ridign shotgun with one of the Autoweek editors. I lasted maybe 90 seconds before the inane dialog and her frozen smile got to me.

xrunner2

That show (Vinsetta's Garage) has been sort of disappointing.

The excellent host, Courtney, makes up for any shortfalls by the producers of the show.

stever

Oh, you mean the blond riding shotgun was the host?

Yikes. I hope that's not indicative of one of those must see/appointment TV shows. Seemed pretty lame to me. :sick:

xrunner2

I lasted maybe 90 seconds before the inane dialog and her frozen smile got to me.

Give it a chance. Don't be so serious. Some of it is just fun and silly. Like the segment they did about a week ago in Frisco (I think) of a soap box derby for adults.

ab348

But Suzuki cannot give them away. It is a dog when it comes to sales.

stever

90 seconds is about the limit of my attention span.

Suzuki only has about 250 dealers so that really hampers sales too.

ateixeira

Wonder what Mr. Rooney would be driving today? He had either a Plymouth Reliant or Dodge Aries in the first movie.

Base Caliber...

ateixeira

Courtney used to do Overhaulin' with Chip Foose; that format worked better for her.

She moved to the Power Block on Spike TV, and her role went down hill from there. She still seems out of place on Vinsetta's Garage.

She's Jerry Hansen's daughter, of SCCA racing fame, so she's been around cars for a while. I just wish they would stop "Dolling" her up and just let her hang out in jeans and a T-shirt. I feel sorry for her.

I'll give it a few more chances. American Top Gear was awful in its first season but even that got better.

It's hard to make a good auto-themed show because you just have to dumb it down to grab a big enough audience.

fintail

Base Caliber sounds good. Later fleet spec PT Cruiser maybe. Or perhaps something hard to love like a trunkback Versa or maybe a previous trunkback Yaris. Hughes chose cars for the characters and they worked well.

Realtor mom would be in a RX or ML/GX or GL or maybe a GC or SRX if the domestic theme was to continue - no more K car woody. Typical 80s exec dad would drive an A6-A7 - to replace the Audi 5000. What would replace Shawna/Jean's Fiero?

ateixeira

Maybe a Solistice coupe.

Not sure what still-in-production car he'd drive, maybe a V6 Camaro.

fintail

V6 Camaro or Mustang could work.

I see the ad is online now, not the coolest thing.

ateixeira

Used car dealers usually have terrible ads but this may be a new low:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PMxSZQZuBYc#!

Sell stock if you own it. :lemon:

ateixeira

Previewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGp3fRrNDoY

ateixeira

Lovely. Should make up for the awful cars.com ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEcDxL2l9VM&feature=player_embedded

No Panamera or Cayenne images so big thumbs up from me! :shades:

ateixeira

For balance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d8DjFTT8T_Q

ateixeira

Wonder if the model will fly away this time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmgmeprnVlo&feature=player_embedded#!

Actually this one has potential to be good....

ateixeira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XmdQjJ7BM&feature=player_embedded

I want one of those couches. Not sure if wifey would agree, however!

ateixeira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA&feature=player_embedded

I kinda like it, actually.

fintail

I don't like it. It's not about Ferris, it's about Broderick, in my eyes. No supporting cast. Although if Ferris became a boring middle aged office worker who has to fake sick to call in to work, that's the right car.

The jump at the end is funny too, I wonder how much that cost...soft roaders aren't made for any harder driving than the transition between the street and the shopping mall parking garage :shades:

fintail

Looks like more PR stuff than actual car commercial, IMO.

Speaking of commercials, I am really getting tired of the "reinvented" Camry ads. It's not reinvented, it's simply a new model. Same demographic, same image.

ateixeira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1R4BWtBIGJ0

It's OK, but I think of Philly when I hear that tune, and I don't think they have any links to that city, so to me it's a near miss.

ateixeira

This one's funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KEq74TCDGtc

ateixeira

Not as good as Cheetah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vd_IqOb7pW8

The weakest of the 3.

ateixeira

Good one, very bold:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yiah1fJ1MwM

They'd better back that up.

ateixeira

The jump at the end is funny too, I wonder how much that cost...

How much does a CR-V run nowadays?

fintail

I'd say some suspension work and possibly body work was in order, anyway.

I think a lot of children of the 80s will be disappointed with that ad.

ateixeira

Any stunt involving a jump would pretty much total a car. Would you buy a program car like the M5 they used in BMW films "Star", with Madonna? Not me.

Clive Owen was great in those.