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

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  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    and Cadavaliers around Washington state. I can't tell you how teenage or young girls with their fave big style of hair they like now(put back in pony tails or up in those wind-up buns on top of their heads!). I'm in western Washingon, north of Seattle and the young girls and young women are bonkers over soccer here. They even shine the bright mobile spotlights on the fields so they can play at night! Huge over here! Cadavaliers, Neons, Jetta's and, umm.....name another chick car here.....I got it! Honda Civics-just to make it an even four. I saw that Sorento commercial, too, pretty good stuff.

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  • chevytruck_fanchevytruck_fan Member Posts: 432
    I'm glad not many teenage girls drive p/u's on the westside, they have a hard enough time stopping compacts without rear-ending you couldn't image how many accidents would occur if they were driving pickups in the rainy weather.

    so were you happy or unhappy ref 51 didn't pass?

    Being on the eastside I'm glad it failed.
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    9 cents more a gallon to our already-high gas prices and messed with trying to add more lanes to the freeways around Seattle? I get them all mixed up-Tim Eyman keeps throwing in so many Initiatives that it muddy's the picture a tad, huh?

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  • target3target3 Member Posts: 155
    "oh please jettas are teenage girl cars, that is all there is to it"

    DOPE.
  • chevytruck_fanchevytruck_fan Member Posts: 432
    51 was the gas tax
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    screaming that we're gonna be crying in our beer when our roads go to pot(really to pot)after R51's failure?

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  • odie6lodie6l Member Posts: 1,173
    Saw a retro-mercial on TV land the other night while watching hogan's heroes. It was for Texaco Gasoline saying how much better Unleaded Gas was over Leaded Gas..... I just couldn't help but laugh.. cause I still have to get leaded (I add a lead tablet to unleaded) for my old snow-blower. If you ever want to have fun with a teen-ager at the gas station...ask him/her if they know where you can buy some leaded gas.

    Odie
  • wilcoxwilcox Member Posts: 582
    I agree. "We'll be here until the end...". Some of these Chevy commericals are really weird!

    And, the little Jetta's are lookin pretty good to me. If we had a VW dealer close by (nearest is 30 miles away), then I'd look as close at them as the Nissans (who are 1 mile away).

    You do not have to wear lace panties to be attracted to the Jetta - CTF & MrKia..I see lots of Engineers driving them.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...female engineers!
  • chevytruck_fanchevytruck_fan Member Posts: 432
    ROFL @ lemko
    heck look at the jetta commercial with the guy licking the car, he looks likes a girl for crying out loud

    What do you guys think of that new Buick ad?

    I really like how GM is going with heritage in their ads, I think it is a smart move to show what GM once was and what GM wants to be again (hoping people will forget about the 80's lol).

    I don't know how many people know who Harley Earl was, but showing those awesome old Buicks, with the new ones works.

    A lot better than "its all good"

    and I'm happy to see portholes again.
  • i_luv_toyotai_luv_toyota Member Posts: 350
    nobody has mentioned the new VW commercials that appear to be set outside a VW dealership. The one that I saw was some sort of "yard sale" with one guy digging through the items on the table, and another guy (with a nasally voice) advertising the VWs.

    I have to laugh at two things though:

    1) "German Engineered" VWs. Aren't the majority of them made in Mexico?
    2) "Highest resale value in it's class." As compared to who? Toyota, Honda and even Nissan hold their value better.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    zat der German engineering iss vere ve design zuh cars, undt we make zem anywhere ve vant to. ziss iss der German weg....

    and if you don't like my Col. Klink spellings, the whole business works like that. Lots of places that used to have gulags make cars designed by Fiat, we make a lot of Japanese cars on old tobacco fields here, and lots of folks have been hooting on these very boards for Ford to start making the European-designed Mondeo over here. the Koreans got into the car business for export by licensing old Japanese blueprints that were yellow around the edges.

    the assembly is basically parcelled out on variations of near the market and/or cheap labor to cut down on shipping costs and delays.
  • alfoxalfox Member Posts: 708
    ""Highest resale value in it's class." As compared to who? Toyota, Honda and even Nissan hold their value better."

    Resale value for the Passat, anyway, has been higher than any other mid-size car all year. Last time I saw the list, in fact, the Passat's lease residual was numerically higher than any Honda ot the BMW 3 or 5-series.

    Here's Edmund's list of the top 10 residual values:

    Compact Car: Mini Cooper
    Midsize Car: Volkswagen Passat
    Near Luxury Car: BMW 3 Series
    Luxury Car: Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class
    Minivan: Honda Odyssey
    Sub Compact SUV: Honda CR-V
    Compact SUV: Acura MDX
    Full-Size SUV: Toyota Sequoia
    Compact Truck: Toyota Tacoma
    Full-Size Truck: Toyota Tundra

    Neither Honda nor Toyota have any cars on the top ten list. Nissan has no vehicles at all on the list. That's not a flame at Toyota or Honda - just facts.
  • diploiddiploid Member Posts: 2,286
    That list isn't actually Edmunds's list - it was compiled by ALG (automotive lease guide).
  • wilcoxwilcox Member Posts: 582
    The one where the 340 h.p. Ram blasts off at the traffic light and dusts two younger guys in a muscle car.
    Funny thing is that the Ram is pulling a trailer load.

    Actually, I hate Dodge Rams...period. The nicest place to see one is in a ditch.
  • checkmecheckme Member Posts: 73
    Toyota finally appears to be getting its act together with commercials- at long last, it's been like 20 years!!!!!

    I like the new TV ad which shows people describing how their Toyotas make them feel. I can't imagine Toyotas actually inspiring such passion in real life, but for an ad, it's darn good.

    There was a wonderful Toyota commercial on the radio the other day. It featured an African-American couple who went to vist their son. He wasn't home, so dad started looking at the son's car in the driveway. He thought that the son was becoming a spendthrift, because he had bought such an expensive luxury car. He went down the list of features (leather seats, sunroof, 6-CD changer) and after each one complained about the cost. What was his son, a rap star?

    His wife finally interrupted to inform him that his son's car was a Camry. After that, the dad's attitude changed completely- he was so proud of him, and just knew that his son had inherited his intelligence!
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,038
    ...is that Dodge ad the one where the Ram is pulling the '68 Charger, and the kids in the other car ask the guy "Is that a Hemi?"
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,038
    ...the one where the kid in the yellow Cavalier is waiting for the song to end. I never caught this before, but now the girl mumbles "What a dork!" towards the beginning.

    Did she always do that?
  • wilcoxwilcox Member Posts: 582
    Hod dang! It's a hemi!

    That's the one Andre. Didn't they put "two fours" on that one(426 hemi)? I think the "six pack" went on the 440.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,038
    ...I'm pretty sure all the 426 Hemis had dual quads, while the 440 had either a single-4bbl or the 6 pack.

    I don't know if the dual quad was ever available with the 440 or not.
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    which is three hemis in one ad, and one towing. shades of the 60s! rockin', dude!
  • wilcoxwilcox Member Posts: 582
    Duster and Dart were same body style weren't they? Kinda compact types? I thought they had wedges in them.(unless you are talking about "Funny Cars")
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,038
    ...went into an A-body (that's the Dart/Valiant/Duster/etc bodystyle) was in 1968. They ran off around 50 Dart Hemis and 50 Barracuda Hemis that year, for racing only. I think they cost about $4,000 new.

    Of course, I guess these kids could've gone and thrown a Hemi into their Duster after the fact!
  • odie6lodie6l Member Posts: 1,173
    Saw a doozie last night from Ford.
    It shows a F-250 or F-350 Heavy duty pulling an airplane out onto the runway of a little local airport. The truck then starts to speed up and the Airplane glides behind it and then slowly touches down again. Funny..if the Truck is going fast enough to get the plane off the ground...why are the props not spinning..even from the force of the wind?

    Odie
  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    of course, gliders are launched by towing hundreds of times a day, and that can be done behind anything with more power than an old Pinto or Vega. gliders don't have props or motors, and are the sexiest looking of all flying craft.

    and country elevator operators regularly use the pickup truck to move a boxcar or two down the rail tracks so they can fill 'em all up with weevils and dust ;)
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    There are a couple of different radio ads running for OnStar here. They feature tape recordings of actual OnStar calls from subscribers. Don't know if listening to someone who has locked their keys in the car being saved by OnStar is going to get me to want the service!


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  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,341
    That ad for the Corolla where it comes ashore seemed very appropriate to me, since the thing looks like a beached whale... I dunno what is wrong with Toyota styling lately. All their stuff is really ugly.

    I think I am in a minority because I really like all of the Mitsubishi ads I've seen lately, even the one with the girl dancing in the passenger seat to that techno-pop music. I really like the SUV ad with the "just breathe" background music.

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  • swschradswschrad Member Posts: 2,171
    but understand, some options are limited in availiability....
  • pk11pk11 Member Posts: 2
    ... are very cool. I love hearing the engine sound.
  • diploiddiploid Member Posts: 2,286
    You mean the similar sounds you hear in the Subaru ad for the WRX?

    I was reading the last issue of C&D and there's this pamphlet inside from GM harping about Harley Earl and Buick. It's titled "The DaVinci of Detroit."

    Kinda insulting to the world of art to harp about design and all when they don't realize that the artist was known as Leonardo da Vinci (not one word, as in the GM pamphlet), which is translated as Leonardo from the town of Vinci (in Italy, where he was born); his last name is not da Vinci and no one knows what it is either.
  • janjohnsonjanjohnson Member Posts: 9
    are back. Uggghhh. I have to suffer through watching exorbitantly wealthy 20/30 somethings giving each other keys to their brand new Lexus! At least they haven't shown the one from last year where the parents give their (barely old enough to drive) daughter her new shiny new plaything.
  • janjohnsonjanjohnson Member Posts: 9
    Why are they trying to capture the youth market by showing a young guy listening to 'Bye Bye Miss American Pie'? I was in my early twenties when the song came out and it was (and still is) one of the most annoying songs I have ever heard. My parents liked it, though. Mitsubishi on the other hand, gets it right. (Love that new commercial with the song 'Breathe' in the background).
  • checkmecheckme Member Posts: 73
    So true! I guess it's the only song they could find with a reference to both Chevy and America in the lyrics.

    GM really should hire some rappers to do its commercial soundtracks. It seems to be working for Cadillac, to some degree- why not Chevy or Pontiac?

    Speaking of which, I really like the new Pontiac "fuel for the soul" ad.
  • alfoxalfox Member Posts: 708
    tapes of Dinah Shore singing "See the USA in your Chevrolet..."
  • badgerfanbadgerfan Member Posts: 1,565
    Yes, those ads make me retch as well. I think a good gag gift might be to go to your local Lexus dealer and just buy some Lexus keys as a gift and then tell your wife this was the only part of a Lexus she was going to get. But, I imagine even a Lexus key is overpriced. My wife is very happy with her 6 year old Caravan anyways. A Lexus of any sort isn't in our plans. Even if we could afford it, there are many more fun things to do with any excess cash than to sink it into a luxury car. Now a 'vette on the other hand.....
  • jaserbjaserb Member Posts: 820
    except it was Cheryl Crow singing "See the USA in your Chevrolet". IIRC it was used for the launch of the new Impala. I think the point of these ads is something like "Buy a Chevy because they used to make pretty good cars..."

    -Jason
  • diploiddiploid Member Posts: 2,286
    Looks like Jaguar is emulating Lexus in its ad. Jaguars driving around with ribbons and bows on the roofs.

    re: Miss American Pie. I'm in my 20s and I've never even heard of that song before Madonna remade it.
  • rroyce10rroyce10 Member Posts: 9,332
    .... The Jag commercial, sitting on the couch at Xmas and he get's glass enclosed model of the Jag .. that was a Lexus commercial a couple of years ago.

    Terry.
  • alfoxalfox Member Posts: 708
    Glad I missed that one!
  • golicgolic Member Posts: 714
    Drive me nuts. To me it is "jag-wour" I can stand the foriegn accent talking about the "jag-ew-our"
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Check out the dictionary and you'll find that both pronunciations are right... Jaguar is one of those words like "nuclear"... everyone seems to have their own way of saying them. But back to the car commercials!
  • alfoxalfox Member Posts: 708
    in the case of nuclear only one is correct. Either Jag pronounciation is phonetically accurate, depending only on dialect.

    Jimmy Carter's pronounciation of nuclear (and W's as well) as "NU-cular" are corruptions that are not accepted as correct in any dictionary as they displace the "L" from the 2nd to the 3rd syllable. It's one of my pet annoyances, along with supposably and irregardless. Geeze - learn to talk!

    Why can't the English
    teach their children how to speak?
    Norwegians learn Norwegian,
    the Greeks are taught their Greek.
    In France every Frenchman
    knows his language from A to Zed....

    ;^)
  • pjyoungpjyoung Member Posts: 885
    It's called dialect. Depends on where your teacher came from. Words like (phonetically spelled)

    Creek or Crick
    ENvelope or AHNvelope
    ToMAto or ToMAHto
    Ant(aunt) or AWnt

    And I won't even go to the "y'all vs youse guys" road...
  • golicgolic Member Posts: 714
    Just like "porsche" unless you own one its "porsch-A"

    In this case it is the Jag commercial, who can pronounce it any way they please. In this case they are pronouncing it just to make it seem more uppity (if thats a word)
  • alfoxalfox Member Posts: 708
    That's true, and applies to all the words you listed and Jaguar as well. But dialect does not forgive pronounciations or usages that are outright wrong, like the ones I listed above.

    Being a Virginian living in Massachusetts I have great fun pointing people to the dictionary on pronounciation of "aunt", where both are correct but ANT is preferred. Most natives here think anything but "awnt" is an abberation. But then most natives here are surprised and skeptical to learn that the highest mountain in the East is not in New England, and that the highest one on the continent isn't even in the 48 lower states....

    ;^)
  • alfoxalfox Member Posts: 708
    If GM's got a secret maybe they should share it.
  • jlflemmonsjlflemmons Member Posts: 2,242
    After all, "y'all" is mutually inclusive. "You guys" is sexually discriminatory.

    And yes, I HAVE lived here all my life. So far.

    Happy Friday, folks

    Jim
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,038
    ..."Youse people", which in and of itself isn't discriminatory. Usually was in the context of whatever he was saying, though!

    I never heard the word "Youse" outside of television until 1990. The guy I bought my '57 DeSoto from, near York, Pennsylvania, used it a few times.
  • diploiddiploid Member Posts: 2,286
    I hear those all the time. "Youse guys..." "Alls you gotta do is..." "Theas sumhing about...", etc.
  • petra02petra02 Member Posts: 33
    Would the NASA employees name happen to be Homer Ickum?
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