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

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  • fushigifushigi Member Posts: 1,459
    Well it's just after noon here. Think I'll have Italian for lunch.
    2017 Infiniti QX60 (me), 2012 Hyundai Elantra (wife)
  • robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    Actually that's either a Never Ending Job Stopper, Job Stopper, Salary Cap, et al. But it could be worse if it were on the front of her neck.

    Tramp Stamps are located on the lower back and don't age well hence the invention of:

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited November 2011
    Think I'll have Italian for lunch

    :D

    The removal video is also funny. SNL?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited November 2011
    More scoopage. Translated:

    What are you looking at, eh?! What are you looking at?! You undressing me with your eyes? [slap] Poor little man, you can't help yourself. You feel your heart race, your head spinning... you're lost at the thought of me being yours forever.

    She's actually Romanian, Catrinel Menghia.
  • robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    juice - are you hanging around the vortex?? The kids over there are gaga over Ms Menghia.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    The Acura Gordon Ramsay ad is kind of weird. The Lexus LS AWD spot has been playing constantly in my market, kind of an odd premise as from my experience, those who can afford one will be the first to call in to work at the first snowflake. MB Santa is out there a lot, too.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Once in a while, yeah, when I want the euro perspective/impression on things.

    You're fine there, though, as long as you own a Miata, E36 M3, or 4l Jeep. :D
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I can't stand any of the holiday ads. They're all just bad, to the core.

    Sure, let's just give a car away, like that will result in strong family values. :sick:
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    It's the link between consumerism and, well, everything.

    You mean giving spoiled high maintenance princess a new RX/GX etc every year isn't the end all be all of love and goodness? :shades:
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    You would think these kinds of ads would seriously be out of fashion during an economic depression.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Yeah except I was thinking of M-B's santa ad. ;)

    They're all bad, though.

    Santa should drive a car up and donate it to a charity, and take the sleigh home.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    Nah, the rich are getting richer, this is a new gilded age and for some, conspicuous consumption is the in thing as much as ever. Some hipsters squatting in parks won't turn the tide.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    I can take the dorkiness of the Santa ads more than the pretentious Lexus ads. Those should be starting up anytime now - surprised I haven't seen an RX with a bow on it in front of an unreasonable house yet.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    The rich are also getting more careless and arrogant. Back in the 1930s Depression, the rich bought less pretentious cars as not to become the targets of kidnappers - a growing crime back in the day. Some rich folks were too afraid to even leave their estates for fear of becoming targets of poor folks' rage whether it was well-deserved or not.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    Today it's also more of a sin to bash the rich than at any time in recent history IMO...no matter how ill gotten the fortune. Some have insane fears of "class warfare". As we devolve it will probably head back towards what you describe, as it exists in the less developed places we are supposed to emulate, where you have to live in a gated compound to really be safe, and to protect yourself from those you trampled for gold.

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    Today, he'd not only get his money back, but a free car too, courtesy of his bought and paid for legislator and the taxpayer. Or, if his money was in a normal retirement fund, he'd then have the car stolen from him too.

    I wonder what kind of Lexus "December to Remember" we'll have this year :shades:
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    The excellent Christmas tv ads by Lexus have returned. Saw one during a Big Ten football game. A husband with children present, gives wife a box with a recorder gadget inside that plays the Lexus Christmas (not holiday) melody. Next scene, they are out in front of a "proper" house looking at a black Lexus sedan.
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    Saw an ad for Lincoln shot at night being driven slowly, sanely in city street scene with adult music melody in background. I guess the teen-age boys and wanna be racers won't like this one.
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    Saw tv ad shot at Times Square at night. Done very tastefully, with nice backgrounds, 2 Rovers moving slowly through the streets. Maybe, just maybe the auto makers are coming to realize that teen-age boys who like cars sliding in the sand and dust cannot afford to buy any kind of new vehicle and therefore why make ads catering to them.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    You ever been to Times Square? You don't have a choice but to move slow :shades:

    Quite a few people who drive fast can buy and sell the boring mcmansion adoring slowpokes of Middle America like penny stocks...
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,353
    Saw one that Nissan is running for the holidays, maybe could consider it Glee-inspired or at least a song and dance production. As awful as you might expect. Nissan just doesn't work for me in the ad dept, nor does their vehicle design appeal to me either.

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Some hoods in DC were vandalizing Hummers a while ago. Not sure if it's countering the consumption aspect or the gas guzzler nature of the beast, but insurance on those around here is steep now.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUe8hKFK54

    LED holiday light display. Clarkson calls 'em "fairy lights". :D
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited November 2011
    The only good one I've seen is Infiniti's.

    Guy in a Bimmer throws a snow ball at him, then he races down the snowy hill (g37x model with AWD) and gets there first.

    Bimmer shows up and a bunch of kids throw snow balls back at him.

    Pretty clever, and pokes fun at a rival.

    Can't find it on YouTube, yet. Saw 2 from last year, where the giant snow ball roll a Bimmer out of a parking spot, and another where it blows up and creates snow flakes for the town.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Season of Reason with ... Bette Midler?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyLD2tWcKU

    They try to poke fun at people going too far (not unlike Audi) but it misses the mark, IMHO.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Not a TV commercial per se, but product placement, and on TV...

    Anyone else see highlights from the AMAs? JLo performed and a Fiat 500 was on stage. Funny thing is when she went to get it, she fumbled and opened it from the inside. I think someone locked the door! :D

    They need to move on from that failed campaign and advertise the Abarth in the clever ways we've seen already.
  • robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    You got it backwards juice.

    The snowball rolling down the hill was from last year. The giant snowball knocks the BMW out of the parking space and the G37 parks in it.

    This year is the G37 beating the BMW home up the hill just in time so the kids can pelt the BMW owner with snowballs.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    IMO Nissan hit a peak in the 90s, today there's just too much weirdness and ugliness combined. And that 6cyl drone.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    If I said that made me feel bad, I would be lying :shades:
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    That's what I meant, pardon my Monday morning cryptic writing.

    The snow ball one with the kids is my favorite.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Still using JLo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kknDChTx9io

    That one isn't nearly as bad as the dancing one, with people following her.
  • i_luv_toyotai_luv_toyota Member Posts: 350
    One after another:

    -Hyundai rapping about Christmas shopping in an Elantra
    -Nissan's horrid caroling/dancing (I call it the "most wonderful TV smasher of the year")
    -Honda with Patrick Warburton dressing like Ward Cleaver Christmas style and talking in that sleep inducing monotonous drone of his
    -Acura with Bette Midler and Gordon Ramsay
    -Lexus's "December I Wish to Forget" (self-explanatory)
    -Chevy using Santa Claus as a salesman
    -Mike Rowe at a mall "talking about Ford and making new friends" 'cause that's how he rolls (ad talking, not me)
    -Audi

    And of course the non-Christmas themed ones from VW, Toyota, Kia, and I'm sure various others are awful too.

    Like was pointed above, the only good ones are from Infiniti, both this year and last.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Scooped!

    I posted early this morning, now AutoBlog finally put something up on the JLo oops:

    http://www.autoblog.com/2011/11/21/j-lo-struggles-to-open-door-of-fiat-500-on-st- age-during-ama-perf/
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited November 2011
    http://jalopnik.com/5861493/

    Chrysler's head of the Fiat brand in North America, Laura Soave, is "leaving the company" and being replaced by Tim Kuniskis, a marketing executive. But why?

    I've heard unsubstantiated rumors for a couple months now from sources knowledgeable of internal Chrysler politics that she was being investigated for a possible improper relationship with Michael D'Antonio, the CEO of former Fiat ad agency Impatto Custom Marketing.

    I hope he was a better lover than ad maker, she lost her job over this...

    The good news is that The Richards Group did the Abarth ad, so Impatto is history.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    It's not what you know :shades: :sick:

    500 sells less than half of expectations. Amusing.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    The worst part is that the new guy comes from ... you guessed it ... marketing.

    That'll fix everything!
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,353
    -Hyundai rapping about Christmas shopping in an Elantra

    The absolute worst. Punks with flat-brimmed baseball caps throughout the piece. Nothing good about any ad that uses rap as its gimmick. Besides, we all know rappers only drive Escalades. ;)

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Some how they incorporated Guitar Hero in their new one.

    Awful.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Trying to copy Kia's success with the hamsters, perhaps?

    Sorry, try again.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    To Kia's credit, the hamster ad will be unrepeatable. If only, because the Soul probably goes with hamsters more than any other.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...Hyundai will bring back the holiday commercials with the cute hipster chick singing?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I'm wondering if they'll be back at the Super Bowl. The Azera intro would coincide, but it's a low volume seller.

    I hear Audi will advertise in the super bowl...
  • loncrayloncray Member Posts: 301
    Oh, yeah, forgot about her - I agree, bring her back.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    Sadly, you'll get her other half along for the ride.

    Hipsters drive VWs though, not Hyundais.
  • tmarttmart Member Posts: 2,403
    I like the "Let's go to Vegas" commercial running now. The Saleman in the back seat is priceless.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/jennifer-lopez-phony-fiat-ad-564812

    Could Fiat get any more bad press?
  • robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    I'm not suprised she wasn't in the Bronx to film the commercial. After all, it was part of her video shoot. Further, did anyone really expect he to actually drive the car in the video??

    Why is this news?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    She just sings about it, claims to be from there, really plays it up a lot. Poseur.
  • robr2robr2 Member Posts: 8,805
    Where in the video does she claim to be there? All she claims is that she is from those streets. Besides, if it was that important to the integrity of the brand, FIAT would've gone in an entirely different direction.

    I'm gonna whine next time Vancouver or Toronto stands in for NYC or Chicago!!
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Those streets are in the background...

    So she's Jenny from the Block, but she can't visit the block any more because, why, she doesn't feel safe there any more? No ghetto pass? :P

    I've stopped there for gas, coming from CT back home, and I'm not sure if I was hearing back fires or gun shots. :D

    Nowadays I wait for the NJ Turnpike, it's much cheaper.

    Any how, back to Fiat's ad campaign, I think it was dumb to pitch a Latin angle instead of an Italian one. They reference where the car is built (Mexico) instead of taking advantage of its european heritage. Suicidal.

    They have 180 days' supply in dealers right now. Can't give them away. $500 rebate, but wait, it will get bigger.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,528
    Guess what will be the next big star in the subcompact rental fleets...

    The built in Mexico thing reminds me of the SNL commercial for the "Adobe" - "German engineering and Mexican know-how".... :shades:
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