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One of the alleged adults says something like, "Do we have everything?", to which the other replies, "Yeah; we'll only be gone for an hour."
Observations:
The van is so packed with crap that the center mirror may as well not be there.
If the driver has to panic-stop, a big pile of unsecured stuff will come flying toward the passengers, including Junior, with potentially disastrous results.
They're only going to be gone for an hour, so 99% of what they took is completely useless anyway.
In the other commercial, a frazzled couple is driving their Odyssey through a neighborhood late at night; a baby is sleeping in the back seat. They pull up in front of their house; one says something like, "She's finally asleep".
The wife exits the van, and the husband reaches back to the little one, pinches her foot, and says her name. The baby awakens and immediately begins bawling. The wife hears this & looks frustrated as the husband smiles and begins to drive away.
What sort of numbskull would treat his child so badly, and what sort of twisted logic is this, with the end result being that the dad gets to drive a few more miles IN HIS FREAKING MINIVAN???
If Honda spent more than four dollars developing these ads, they paid too much.
Tagline: Honda Odyssey--The van for total morons who have no business being parents in the first place.
Sheesh!
I think they're meant to be a tad metaphoric, not realistic.
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Those ads are geared toward the people who might actually buy and drive a minivan - young parents.
Seems to me, Honda got it right. It ain't kitsch, it's cute. Maybe not to you, but it is to the people who have little kids (who tend to be cute themselves).
The second ad is similar in flavor to an Acura ad I just saw (probably same advertising company). The husband and wife are driving up a long winding road, the wife is reading a real estate listing as they are on the way to view the house. When they get there, the husband steps out, looks at the winding mountain road they obviously just drove up and announces "We'll take it." Both that and the second Ody ad celebrate the fun of driving.
"Normally, I figure a guy like that gets what he deserves"--cut to overweight doofus wailing as he chases his Chevy truck, which is rolling back into the lake. "But I guess I was feeling generous this time."
So, rockhead tows BOTH the Chevy truck and the guy's boat out of the lake. As he unhitches the truck, the doofus' surprisingly hot wife says, "Wow, that really sank fast."
Rockhead smirks, runs his hand along the box rail of his truck and says... "Yeah--like a rock."
This commercial is so incredibly smug and idiotic and annoying I just cringe whenever it comes on. Fortunately, we have TiVo, so I rarely have to actually sit through it, but man does this thing bug me.
I feel better having vented, though...
First, the theme is the same one you listen to when you call the L-M customer hotline and they put you on hold. And of course the only reason I call the hotline is because I'm "completely satisfied", not just "mostly satisfied", and I want to make a new friend.
Second, anyone driving a Lincoln LS at the subsidized lease rate of $399/mo. plus tax (and that should be everyone) can afford a racing boat like they can afford a castle in Ireland.
Third, anyone who can afford a racing boat aspires to better things than an LS.
But hey, it's all pretend.
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In contrast, here in Canada, Kia has started running their "swamp tour" ad for the miserable little Sportage again. Lord, no...
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I guess the one where the 'rents load the whole roomful of stuff would've been mildly amusing had I seen it first, but I saw the other one first & it really put me off. I don't get the logic of portraying a guy who would deliberately drag his infant daughter out of the house and then deliberately rouse her from a sound slumber just so he could drive the Odyssey; I thought, "That's no way to treat a baby; what a pinhead." That set me up to find fault with the other one, too. Ah, well. Now, if the guy was hauling baby in an NSX or an S2000, it might've made a difference. ;-)
To me, a great kids & cars ad is the one by VW where the dad in his Passat W8 races the son on his bike--that one makes me grin every time I see it. The Odyssey ads just make me scowl. >:(
No offense intended; peace to minivan owners everywhere!
JLinc, properly chastened
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it's a neat commercial.. but I was more interested in the ice (to get rid of this heat wave and drought) lol.
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Now, of course, there's the F-350/icebreaker commercial. Can anyone besides me guess where Ford got the idea for this?
To me, it seems reminicent of the GMC commercial that ran earlier this year; the one where the GMC hauls the rusty boat onto the beach, and the guy says "It's a bit of a fixer-upper"? Not my idea of a brilliant ad in the first place, but I never thought Ford would be dumb enough to try the same pitch [towing a boat] just a few months later.
Clap. Clap. Bravo, Ford.
Another commercial I hate is the pretensious "Who you callin' NEAR perfict?" Camry ad. Save that for Lexus.
For example: "A little bit of COROLLA in my life, a little bit of MATRIX by my side."
And the poor "sunflower" girl with the Corolla sounds like she has bronchitis!
Even crappy songs aren't safe anymore.
Just as annoying as the Mambo ads, Ford now bombards us (at least in the NYC metro area) with their end of model year clearance ads, complete with Queen's "We Will Rock You" blaring in the background. The song is so over used that it has become a sort of cliché, as have Ford's repeated brags of making five of the ten best selling vehicles in the U.S. Ford outsells other brands. Does that really mean anything?
HA, HA, HAAAAAAH!!! It's funny 'cause it's true...
Clever ad, made me chuckle.
Another one that's being forced upon us is those god-awful Chevrolet "Walking on the Sun" ads. See those and that ugly Avalanche thing at least twice during each commercial break!
Those Honda ads with the "definitions" are losers as well. Plus the music in them is annoying.
My father had an '74 F-100 until he got a new '93 F-150. During this time he also had a CJ-8 Scrambler that was raised and set on sopme hugh tires... He had a license plate on the front that read "Have you driven over a Ford lately!"
Odie
bored: Only way to deal with "Your 31 Metro Detroit Ford Dealers Think Ford First Think Ford First Think Number One We're Number One Oh Yeah!"
is to either throw out your TV or to personally piss on each dealer lot after hours. So far I've hit Huntington Ford (Rochester Hills), Dean Sellers (Troy), Varsity (Ann Arbor), and Briarwood (Saline). Well, Varsity and Briarwood might not be part of the Metro Detroit Obnoxious Idiot Advertiser Group... but I also scored @ Tom Holzer (Novi/Farmington Hills), Dorian (Mt. Clemens), and... well, if everyone does it, we can drown 'em and we'll be rid of those irritating ads.
They are, simply put, the worst ads on TV ever.
Blows the mind... whatta new concept.
I usually aim for showroom glass...
I won't nominate the Metro Detroit Ford Dealers ad for "worst car commercial of all time"... I'll nominate it for "most freakin' annoying, irritating, and negative-image-inducing" ad of all time.
Parodoxically, though, the ad is very accurate. If you go into any Detroit-area Ford dealer, well, you'll know that the way they advertise is part and parcel of their sales philosophy (I won't call it a "strategy" unless screaming is a strategy in your mind).
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The other was for the VW Passat with 2 guys stopping at a convenience store for munchies and a fill up. Each guy is sunburned on one side from riding with the windows open and the sun on their respective half. They end up leaving the station switching sides in the car after seeing each other. Again very little of the car, but a funny and cute commercial.
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However, many of the other Jetta commercials are very good, and entertaining, too. Have you seen the one where the guy is standing next to the car, and the salesman is walking up with a different potential buyer? So the guy panics, and licks the door to mark the car as his. Hilarious. I also like the one where the guy can't wait to get his Jetta, so he's on the assembly line as it's being built.
Also, Volkswagen's commercials really got the point across in the past. Think of the VW Beetle ads: A winter scene, with nothing else moving but a Beetle, and the caption, "Ever wonder how the snowplow driver gets to the snowplow?" And, of course, "Think small". Those are genius, unforgettable. I wasn't even alive at the time, but I think those slogans are some of the best I've heard in my lifetime.