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It's irritating as all get out.
And no, the "Right Here Right Now" has nothing to do with a Jesus Jones song from the '90's with the same title.
To me, it's annoying that Nissan is ruining a good song
Mmmmmmmm.....
- Car driving through sand plains, kicking up a ton of dust
- Driver appearing to manually shift an automatic transmission
- Car attempting to do a "donut", looks stupid with front wheel drive
- Right Here Right Now or some other overplayed hip-hop trash from PartyMix 2000 blaring in the background
- tagline ending the "shift_" then add the following words:
Ego
Envy
BowelMovements
RoadRage
etc...
Nissan builds some solid cars, but they tend to quickly look out-dated in a few years because of their overly trendy designs (i.e. Altima, Murano, Xterra), they need to spend some money on a better ad agency.
It's for the new Pathfinder, and it involves a New York business person telling his stories of trying to escape the City (with what appears to be his wife) but keeps running into people from NYC everywhere he goes.
He then ends it with the sterotypical New York accented "Cuz we missed yuh guys."
Nissan needs to "shift" these ads out of eye and ear shot.
What's (sort of) funny is that when my wife was driving my Saturn L300 (pewter in color), she always was complaining about how she couldn't ever find it in a parking lot. She used to call it "anon-a-car".
The ad finishes with Jason Alexander saying, "If you can find a better car, buy it!"... and Iacocca says "I couldn't have said it better myself."
Seems like a dangerous statement for Chrysler to make!!
I'm surprised no Seinfeld fans picked up on this...
I'm also surprised that George would endorse Chrysler, after all, he had Jon Voight's LeBaron burn up on him!
What a slap in the face to domestic cars and domestic car owners - as if it's a compromise to buy an "inferior" domestic to get a lower price!
Who was first, Saab or Mazda, with the Camry teaser?
That Lexus ad is for the GS300 AWD. But Audi has a much better one with a ski ramp.
-juice
Good use of music, neat way to connect the new car to the past...only thing that would make it better would be if the car in the ad were the Daytona version.
Also, if that's how the Charger R/T really sounds on hard acceleration, wow...pretty sweet. :shades:
-juice
I'm driving a loaner Tribeca now so I should put that song on a CD and drive around blaring it. ;-)
-juice
See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet.
America is asking you to call.
Drive your Chevrolet through the U.S.A.
America's the greatest land of all.
On a highway or a road along a levee:
Performance is sweeter, nothing can beat 'er,
Life is completer in a Chevy.
So make a date today to see the U.S.A.
And see it in your Chevrolet.
Travelin' east or travelin' west,
Wherever you go, Chevy service is best.
Southward or north, near place or far,
There's a Chevrolet dealer for your Chevrolet car.
See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet.
The Rockies way out west are calling you.
Drive your Chevrolet through the U.S.A.,
Where waving fields of wheat pass in review.
Whether Trav'ling light or with a load that's heavy:
Performance is sweeter, nothing can beat 'er,
Life is completer in a Chevy.
So make a date today to see the U.S.A.
And see it in your Chevrolet.
subaru is trying way too hard to market the tri. i noticed they didn't 'dust' any of the domestics.
Here car makers are starting to use fairly attractive women in their ads, and Honda uses a cartoon!
Didn't I see an Aviator in there? I think it was the first driveway shown.
-juice
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What makes the Subie any different from a typical unibody SUV like an MDX or Highlander??? :confuse: And how the heck does it compare to a BOF Sequoia? :confuse: :confuse: Not even close. Kind of a ridiculous ad if you ask me.
I am seeing Tribecas quite often around here, as the northwest is big on Subarys...I still think "1962 Saab" when I see that front end, but that's just me.
One features many middle-age guys running around a tractor trailer full of Lexuses while it's driving through the 'burbs. One guy hops onto the truck and says to the driver, "I'll take the red one, please." Then you hear what is supposedly his son trying to snap him out of his fantasy, where he is actually getting ice cream from an ice cream truck, no tractor trailers full of Lexus anywhere to be seen. Of course throughout the whole ad they have the annoying ice cream truck music playing in the background.
Another one is a guy at his kid's birthday party, where a pinata is being hit. The guy sees an ultra-ugly Lexus RX330 pull into a driveway and slips into fantasy mode. He imagines himself aiming for the pinata, hitting it, and then have it break open. But instead of candy, many Lexus keys fall out and many adults scramble to the ground to get one.
These ads almost make seeing Iacocca for the millionth time bearable...
Like any car company, Toyota cares about $$$ more than fuel economy. I am sure those trucks and SUVs are high margin vehicles.
I do like any MB commercial that ties into the past.
-juice
I'd love to know if Honda's using "Mr. Opportunity" again because there are actually people out there who (for reasons far beyond my comprehension) like him, or if they're just being cheap...
I liked the 'Falling in love again' MB ads...a couple featured fintails
There are several levels of stupidity, here.
1. Since when does Barrett Jackson sell brand new cars in their auctions? They should be ashamed of letting Dodge even use their name in this dumb commercial.
2. What absolute idiot would even think of paying $75k for a 4 door Dodge? Lets see, 911 or Dodge Charger ... tough choice.
3. Finally - and this is the part that really makes me mad - the car on the stage is an R/T, with the Hemi engine prominently featured. The car in the dealership - the $26k car - is an SXT, with a 3.5L engine. You don't find that out until you see the fine print at the end. The commercial makes you think the guy is getting a Hemi Charger for $26k but he's not. Lame, lame, lame.
-Jason
Volvo hosted a Fire & Ice event near DC and they put an S60 up against a BMW 3 series. When they compared prices, they used a 330i, but when they put two cars on track for a side-by-side test, they used a 325i.
Sooooo lame. Cowardly, actually.
-juice
"More standard power than a [insert name of competitor with smallest engine], better handling than [insert name of competitor's cargo van model], more storage space than [insert name of competitor's two-seater roadster] and neater stereo buttons than [insert name of vehicle that's hopelessly better in every way, usually a foreign make].
Please. Who do they think is falling for this?
More power than the least powerful car in the class.
More room than the smallest car in the class.
Etc.
-juice
Quicker than a 325xi - smallest engine available in the 3 series strapped to the weight of AWD. Don't think anyone shopping Bimmers is going to say "hmmm, let's go check out a JEEP for comparison" :confuse:
Same goes for a comparison with the Audi TT 1.8 AWD. :confuse: :confuse:
I bet it has more interior space than a Toyota Echo too? Offroad capabilities better than a Ferrari 360 Modena?
-juice
1. Barrett-Jackson actually has sold new (or virtually new) cars at their auction in the past, usually "hot" cars that have just been introduced and are in short supply. In any event, B-J is all about making money for themselves and nothing else, so it should be no surprise that they welcomed this kind of exposure.
2. Since the current hemi is not only unrelated to the legendary Hemi of yore and is in fact not actually a hemi at all, it should come as no surprise that Dodge is resorting to marketing subterfuge in order to sell it.
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