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

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  • diploiddiploid Member Posts: 2,286
    I gotta keep my eye out for this commercial. Haven't seen it yet. All regularly scheduled programs have been replaced by breaking news of the blizzard we're getting. I just spent a couple of hours shoveling 2+ feet of snow.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    here's your L I V E action news chopper picture of the blizzard... at this point, we can still get the hanger door open an inch, and the snow is, as you can see, just over the lens of the camera.

    here's a live cut-in of feathers in a fan because we can't get the Live Or Else van downtown... and we have this breaking report of snow at arlington.

    dang! this has to be must-see TV :-D
  • redfive2112redfive2112 Member Posts: 15
    after seeing that Ion commercial with the "Forever Young" song going and all the kids at prom.

    Who is that supposed to appeal to? Kids going to prom nowdays, or ones that went to prom when the song came out back in 198-? I fail to see someone in the mid 30s thinking "what a great song it sure brings back memories...Hon, round up the kids we're going to the Saturn dealership!"

    Funny thing, I hated that song as a kid. Now when it comes on it stays in my head half the day.

    Scott
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...and I don't even remember that song. However, a Saturn was hardly the kind of car I aspired to owning then or now.
  • robs328irobs328i Member Posts: 59
    by showing cars speeding along recklessly with utter disregard for basic driving laws. People without brains of their own emulate that kind of garbage. In letters too small to read they may add a disclaimer such as "professional driver on closed course" or something.
  • diploiddiploid Member Posts: 2,286
    LOL rob...every second of modern television is irresponsible.
  • gambit293gambit293 Member Posts: 406
    To be honest, I love that song by Alphaville, and those stupid Saturn commercials ruined it for me.

    One thing odd I noticed about those Ion commercials: the subject of the commercial (the boy who is staring in wonderment at the "childhood" or whatever) is the backseat passenger of the car, not the driver.

    What exactly is Saturn trying to say? Forget all those cars made for the DRIVER. Now here we have a car that is truly made for the passenger.
  • robs328irobs328i Member Posts: 59
    Yeah.....I guess you're right about that :~P
  • robs328irobs328i Member Posts: 59
    "What would you do if I gave you the keys to this Pontiac Grand Am for the weekend!?!?"
    Sheesh....these people act like you just handed over the keys to a freakin' Carerra or something!
    I know what I'd do....I'd drive it into a ditch and collect the insurance money and use it as a down payment on a Carerra :~P
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    fill it with goats and leave it in the middle of a traffic jam?

    put "hatboxes" with the nuclear symbol in the back seat and leave it in front of the cop shop?

    wait for the big doors to open at a honda or BMW dealer and drive it onto the sales floor?

    so many options, so little bail money...... smile, you're on webcam ;)
  • robs328irobs328i Member Posts: 59
    I like your sense of humor! I particularly like the third option....LOL!

    How about putting fake plastique explosives in it and parking it in the underground garage of a federal building? (In case the FBI is monitoring this thread...which I'm sure they are...notice I said FAKE :~P)
  • a_l_hubcapsa_l_hubcaps Member Posts: 518
    Fill the interior with water through the sunroof, and leave it in a high crime area? (would-be thief opens door and SPLOOSH).

    Torch off the roof and return it as a convertible?

    Hmmm, maybe we need to open up a new thread for this discussion :-)

    -Andrew L
  • robs328irobs328i Member Posts: 59
    I love it!

    How about replacing the CEO's Mercedes...rip off his hood ornament and weld it to the Grand Am and wheel that sucker into his parking space!
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    for filling the interior, don't forget to add several large, orange carp to swim around and blink at the locksmith :0
  • gambit293gambit293 Member Posts: 406
    Add a huge spoiler, and then rev at anything with wheels to incite a race. Lose on purpose.

    Vipers, Porsches, Geos, bikes, bicycles, baby carriages.... anything goes.

    (I admit it; I'm biased against Pontiac, but it's just so easy to be.)

    Or, get a huge "AVIS POWER" sticker and put that across the windshield.
  • crkeehncrkeehn Member Posts: 513
    As much an ad for taking care of the environment and not littering as for the car. A convoy of three Porsches speed down the road. The first kicks up a piece of litter, the aerodynamics of the second wafts the litter into the air where the third driver can roll down his window and grab it.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    yeah, that's real environmental. hey, I can do it with two Suburbans, so they're the real environmental champ!
  • pjyoungpjyoung Member Posts: 885
    Did anybody else notice all the crap that was on the track during the Daytona 500? IMHO, it was a very sad statement about Americans.
  • totalnettotalnet Member Posts: 67
    Anyone seen the Chrysler commercial where this one guy drives a new BMW 3 serie car while all of his friends drive Chrysler cars? He has to take a second job as the pizza delivery boy to pay for his car while his friends are out partying. It was funny to me for half a second then I realize how stupid commercial was in so many way.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    of course I'd be the guy delivering Pizzas to afford nice wheels :^)

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • robs328irobs328i Member Posts: 59
    the Lincoln LS kicking butt in the slaloms against a 540i....yeah right? In the first place I wonder if the 540i had the sports package, and even if it didn't, phtttt! , second why would you want to slalom in either car?
  • suvshopper4suvshopper4 Member Posts: 1,110
    I like the cutie who, standing at the door wanting to be positive, says the last line to the pizza-guy friend, "I like your hat..."
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    I didn't understand it in high school, either. if you want a pizza, the delivery guy is doing you a favor bringing it out. you want the trash out of the yard, the guy with the truck that beeps and bangs is somebody you wanted to come around. I don't see why Buddy is cool in the day and scum at night when he's working for something quite less than $25 an hour.

    not quite in the Honda ad humanism category, but closing in. bring back the kid on the window ad.
  • logic1logic1 Member Posts: 2,433
    I laugh everytime I see that commercial. The young woman is the classic find something good to say about everyone we all were happy to have known in high school. Now if only I had been smart enough to ask her out...
  • jaserbjaserb Member Posts: 820
    reminds me of that Lexus RX300 commercial where it's sitting in a snow drift completely covered with snow, then powers out and the snow all magically slides off. This is just what we need - a commercial that convinces people they don't need to brush the snow off their car before they drive it.

    -Jason
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    if you gurgle through a feedlot in that car, the stuff probably won't stick, either.

    it HAS to be true, it's on TV...
  • suvshopper4suvshopper4 Member Posts: 1,110
    What negativity are you talking about?
    The point is, the guy has to work a second job to afford his more expensive car, while his friends are out partying.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    that's negative. positive would be, "DUDE! hey, grab a slice and check this chick out before you head back!"

    oh, hey, by the way... just to type the crowd here, just like high school again, in the spirit of the ad... how many of us are doing two or more jobs, working OT if it's availiable, pushing roadkill hubcaps on eBay, trying to get through the current economy ourselves? just like that pizza guy with the low-end beemer.....
  • logic1logic1 Member Posts: 2,433
    feeling bad for their freind.

    In the 21st century you are not going to see too many car companies air commercials where females are treated as commodities. Maybe that is still the case with beer. But females buy too many cars for the mfgs to want to turn them off.

    I do not think I will ever buy a Dodge, but I like the commercial a lot.
  • suvshopper4suvshopper4 Member Posts: 1,110
    I take the friends' silent response the same way.

    Maybe it's just a matter of perspective.
  • eaton53eaton53 Member Posts: 356
    As the ad with the ladies fighting in the pool and mud will attest.... with all of the hubbub that one has caused, it has to be considered a rousing success.
  • logic1logic1 Member Posts: 2,433
    But I bet 90% of the major label beer in the country is bought by or for males.

    Cars are getting close to 50/50 male female these days. So machismo car commercials are going the way of the dinosaur.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...that boldly proclaimed "Mercury - The Man's Car!"
  • i_luv_toyotai_luv_toyota Member Posts: 350
    Toyota's recent jingle to push their products. Could they pick a more played-out song?

    Another dumb Toyota commercial. It employs the idea that Corollas are only for young, hip people. It says something to the effect of "it will last an eternity, ya know, until your 30."
    I have rarely seen anybody less than, say, 70 driving these new, "hip" Corollas.
  • i_luv_toyotai_luv_toyota Member Posts: 350
    Pushing the new 2003 Accord. Guy 1 pulls up next to an older (96/97) Accord. Guy 2 in older Accord stares up and down the lines of Guy 1's new Accord, coming *this* close to salivating. Cut to next scene. Guy 2 pulls up to an older Accord, again a 96/97 model, but this time he's in a new Accord, while Guy 3 is drooling all over Guy 2's new Accord. Guy 2 then proceeds to drive off into the sunset gleefully behind the wheel of his new Accord.

    This pattern probably continues on, and on and on.....

    IMHO, this is a great way to show make/model loyalty.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    over rapids, down mountains, and doing other stupid things that the sensitive, caring Honda owners could shrug over, turn away, and drive off into the sunset.

    may they never do another "hey, watch this guy die!" ad again.
  • crkeehncrkeehn Member Posts: 513
    The Ballad of the Highlander - Sbowing the owner doing typical Saturday chores, but sung as an adventure ballad. I love it, Isn't that what most people do with their trucks?
  • svevarsvevar Member Posts: 160
    Yes, that is what most people do with their trucks. Except that the Highlander is not a truck, but a new Camry wagon.

    Sorry, but I hate both the car and the commercial. Like most Toyota commericials, this one drives me insane... almost as much as the dreadful "Hey Now You're An All Star" sales event commercial.
  • navigator3740navigator3740 Member Posts: 279
    Hate the brand, but love the commercial, where the guy with the new Optima is "taking over". Won't even come close to getting me to consider the car, but it's cute.
  • navigator3740navigator3740 Member Posts: 279
    Ah, somebody else old enough to remember that campaign..... But that was back when it was ok to be a man's product.
  • caramocaramo Member Posts: 93
    Starts with young couple in the front seat of a car becoming increasingly annoyed with the amorous sounds coming from the unseen couple in the back seat. When they pull up to their destination, the young man driving says in an aggravated voice "Mom, dad, we're here", and they cue to the slogan "When life keeps getting better, you win."

    Wouldn't make me buy a Hyundai, but it's cute.
  • suvshopper4suvshopper4 Member Posts: 1,110
    crkeehn: I haven't seen that Highlander commercial yet. Sounds like a good one.

    svevar: Truck, car, so what?
  • crkeehncrkeehn Member Posts: 513
    It was refreshing to see a truck presented in the real world. Advertisers may show them leaping sand dunes and climbing rocky hills, but I suspect that the majority of them spend more time slogging through slush on their runs to the hardware store or daycare center.
  • crkeehncrkeehn Member Posts: 513
    considers it a truck also as the category they list it in is SUV/Van
  • 18fan18fan Member Posts: 129
    the new Saturn commercial. The cars ride around (with no one driving them) shopping for owners. They pull into the People Dealership... one car circles in the showroom where there is a young man on a platform in an athletic stance, while the sign on the wall behind him proclaims "The New Malcolm!" The other cars "stroll" through the used people lot, with people standing in rows, each holding a balloon. Finally, the blue Saturn coupe pulls up & stops in front of a young woman while the announcer says "it's almost as if the car finds you!"

    Pretty funny commercial.... but I still would not buy a Saturn.

    BTW, I did not see the "salesman" Saturn coming out to "up" the customer with a 4-square on the hood.... LOL..... :-)
  • svevarsvevar Member Posts: 160
    I understand that the Highlander is an SUV and most people would consider it a truck. I'm pretty sure the government considers it a light truck, too. And I also agree that most people never take their SUVs off road.

    I hope I didn't offend you with my semi-sarcastic Camry wagon remark. I just really dislike the Highlander, and its the only thing I meant to put down.

    -Svevar
  • i_luv_toyotai_luv_toyota Member Posts: 350
    That Highlander commercial is stupid. I think it's about time Toyota gets someone else to do their advertising.

    And it's true, the Highlander is basically a Camry station wagon. The farthest offroad a Highlander will go is to a grass median at an over-packed mall.
  • logic1logic1 Member Posts: 2,433
    Well, while the Highlander commercial is pretty silly, at least give Toyota credit for having the guts to admit most of the new generation of SUVs have nothing to do with off-roading.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    Grocery Utility Vehicles.

    you want out of GUV range, let's see ya tow.
  • suvshopper4suvshopper4 Member Posts: 1,110
    Yeah, GUV. Good one, gov.
    Another macho comment. Ho hum.

    Many of us don't need to tow, or want to.
    We don't feel the need to project a macho image, either.
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