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I love the new Mitsu Eclipse ad with the music and the girls going along with the music while sitting in the car.
Cadillac ads are lame. What is the "power of &"?
Good music too.
P.S. anyone no where I can download that commercial?
Nissan pads: Can't stand the Pathfinder ads where it's in in a coliseum with a bull. or on a cliffside playing polo. Not to mention the Maxima skidding sideways across a desert in every ad.
Chrysler ads are pretty lame too. Dodge=Different. What is that?
GM ads are basically all ridiculous. every Buick ad it seems like is advertising cut-rate lease deals and near ZERO percent finance rates.
The Isuzu ad with Joe Isuzu dismantling a Highlander in the parking lot is also quite weak.
Mazda's "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom" ads are the worst. Very annoying.
Good ads:
The lexus LS430 spots are pretty good.
BMW generally makes some good ads.
Benz has some good ads for the M-class(even though the actual product stinks).
the Subaru WRX ads are good.
I really like the Mazda Zoom Zoom ads. I like the music and the kid is cute. Not really a fan of the cars though. I find them lacking in styling.
I really hate the ads for the car I own which is the Toyota Echo. Number one there are not enough of them and number two, the ones they do have are lame. For example, shaking your tail at a gas station (and the people filling up there). Come on.
Ads should inspire us or should make us feel something. Should make us remember the product.
I really wish there would be some more Bonneville ads; I'd like to see my car in action!
The "New Q" commercials are getting on my nerves, too...especially that avant-guarde Eurotrash guy telling traffic to yield and lights to turn green.
Oh, and does anyone wonder why Cadillac changed the "Power of &" campaign? Its becuase the amphersand (&) is completely foreign in some other countries. More like "The Power of ?".
Alot of VW ads are really good.
-Jetta commercial where the guy is reading the owner's manual than goes into his house and yanks his wife out to show her that the windows roll down from the outside is funny!
-The one where the guy parks his VW outside of a supermarket and then a cart starts rolling towards his car and he comes out lunging and knocking over the cart is hilarious.
All of the New Beetle ads I hate though. Advertising stupid colors like Plutonium this, and Uranium this, and Kryptonite that.
hehe.
The Honda commercial with the "breath in, breath out (repeated a couple of times), now THAT'S low emissions baby!" while showing an Accord driving through a field of flowers. Ya, so what, everything else is these days (low emissions)!
And what about the new Pathfinder "not that you would but you could" ad with a bull fighter holding a red flag from inside the Pathfinder while driving around the ring? I think Nissan just gave up...
BTW: New Axiom commercial where Volvo Cross-Country owners back into Joe Isuzu. Pretty funny if you see it!
I have said something good of BMW at some point I'm shure, oh yeah they are a smart company cause they use GM trannies lol
Other good ads? Well, I admit to a guilty pleasure. I really liked the first Kia commercial with the guy admiring his own car...you know, "It is, isn't it?" But it got old really fast, and the 2nd one at a wedding is annoying.
Going back a couple of years, the Nissan ad with GI Joe picking up Barbie at the townhouse, with an aghast Ken left in the dust, all with Van Halen rocking--now THAT was a car ad!
How about the ad for the Mercedes ML55, with 5 guys all shoving back in a huge sling shot? Liked that, too.
One of the coolest ever, but I can't remember which car (I guess that's makes the ad a failure), is the one where you are constantly changing perspective. You are on a train, watching the car, then you're in the car, then you're part of a model train set -- you know which one I mean? Was that the Olds Intrigue?
OK, my least favorites. That initial Infiniti guy--he needed to be smacked. I am REALLY sick of the Chevy commercial (Tahoe?) with the models in Alaska or somewhere carrying around the removable seats. Give me a break. The Nissan Frontier -- kicks gluteus maximus? Get that overgrown Tonka piece of crap out of here!!! BTW, I agree that one of history's most laughable ads was the sexy portrayal of the guy in the Camry. What really topped it off was the guys expression at the end. "Yeah, I deal with this every day. Ho Hum."
And while I've digressed to radio, I know they're not car ads, but those Budweiser "Real American Heros" ads are the best out there!!
I like the new Q45 ad where the guy drives backward and using his rear camera.
The BMW 328i & 528i use GM designed & built automatic transmissions. And I believe the 323's 2.5L was mated to a GM automatic also.
lancerfixer - Mr. Bowling Shoe Giver Outer, Mr. Wrecking Ball Operator...
ok, here's an amusing one - MB cars surrounding a Harley on an empty stretch of road.
Lawyer: "And where was your wife that evening, sir?"
Plaitiff: "She was out all night with the Grand Marquis!"
Audience: *Gasps*
Camera cuts to an English gent in the gallery wearing a frilly suit and a white powdered wig!
Discussion of Voodoo Chile above reminded me of a Mitsu Montero Sport ad a year or two ago. Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" while it tears through the desert! I actually have a friend who almost bought one solely because of that ad.
Segue to bad music. I can't decide if the MB ML320 ad showing crash tests with a choir-like version of "Staying Alive" is powerful or just plain morbid. Help me out here, folks!
BTW, has anyone ever seen a TV spot for the Land Cruiser? I've seen magazine ads, but never a TV ad. Even on Toyota's recent SUV "sell-a-thon" ad, they mention and show everything BUT the LC. Is this Toyota's way of maintaining the vehicle's mystique, or, as an ad exec might say, "brand cache"? Reminds me of Dodge last year, when they made a point that every Dodge car and truck was marked down...except the Viper.
Jeep: advertising executives from an unidentified competitor meet at a mountain-top to check the vista, but can't get there with a 4WD other than a "Jeep."
The bad: The current 911 ad where the girl keeps missing her bus, so dad has to drive her to school in the 911. It's a cute commercial, but this girl, who appears to be about 10, sits in the front seat. Hello! Ever read that warning sticker on the dashboard? The one that warns about the effect an airbag can have on a "small" passenger?
Also, ever notice in that commerical the brown autumn leaves on the road the Porsche drives through...take a look at the trees surrounding the road.
-Andre
Also liked the commercials for what I believe was th Suzuki SUV, which obviously parodied Ford's Excurion. Images of a compact 4-door SUV sliding smoothly through traffic and fitting into tight parking spots were interspersed with scenes of the owner of an unnamed jumbo SUV, usually female, performing such daunting tasks as gathering herself for the leap from the driver's seat to the tarmac way below, or jumping up and down in an effort to get a hold of the rear hatch so she could close it. I thought these were very funny and got the message behind the product across very well.
Ones that annoy me: Commercials for the new Dodge Caravan, where all they do is mention that it has a sliding front center console over and over and over again. Isn't there ANYTHING else good about the van?
Any commercial for front wheel drive vehicles doing power slides. Just looks unnatural to me.
Also... why the heck does everybody and their mother seem to build the car that leads the JD Power and Associates Initial Quality Survey?