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WHole ad is shots of the current car, with older models flashing in the background. Neat part is they play the Star Spangled Banner completely by engine note (revving it up and all).
Also lots of smoky burnouts and other images designed to encourage responsible, mature driving.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Yeah, sure...
Speaking of trying to make a car look like a sport sedan, does anybody recall the commercial with the red Camry on the deserted LA freeway? That was really silly. The Camry's about as sporty as my grandfather's black 1953 Plymouth Cambridge sedan.
Maybe you just haven't seen that one yet, Lemko?
"Speaking of trying to make a car look like a sport sedan, does anybody recall the commercial with the red Camry on the deserted LA freeway? That was really silly. The Camry's about as sporty as my grandfather's black 1953 Plymouth Cambridge sedan."
Yeah, that ad was dumb. The Camry SE is mainly an appearance package to make it "look" sporty. As much as I like Camrys, they are not even close to being "sporty."
The other featured two guys driving their Element to various geographic areas (beach, mountains, etc.). They are shown riding their mountain bikes, as well as putting stickers of those aforementioned sites on their Element. Well, they run out of space on the back of the car so they put the sticker on the center of one of the rims. The commercial ends with the same tagline as the one above.
I saw both on ESPN News, so go figure there.
At least the end of the Honda "Year-End Sales Clearance" carolers is drawing near.
"Come on down to your friendly Ferrari dealer and get 0% financing or $50,000 cash back on the new Enzo! Offer ends January 3rd, so hurry!"
While the Ferrari ad *would* be pretty funny, I do remember Porsche's ads from the early 1990s...not quite as expensive, but still...
You and me both, my friend. They should be called "Crappy Honda Days," lol!
The Honda one that says 'ooh la la' at this basic Civic coupe was particularly bad...I'd ooh la la over many other cars first.
Any one have any idea how easy it is to pull a typical garage door off it's tracks? I would bet you could do that with not much more than a small riding lawnmower! Not too impressive to the average pickup truck buyer, I would bet.
And now that the holidays are over, we could finally bid a fond (yeah, right...) farewell to all the Christmas-themed ads (especially Lexus and Honda). What a joyous occasion! No more bows or obnoxious carolers!
That must've been one tough mouse, it didn't even break after a jump from a two-story house! Amazing!
Also, Audi using the "greater than" symbol brings back some bad math memories. I hate that symbol and it's "less than" cousin...
I'm writing an essay on car commercials and seem to recall a commercial that had a line like:
"It's not your car; it's your freedom."
Any idea what company made the spot? Thanks....Bob
I just saw a Toyota Sienna ad, which I guess is promoting the lengths that Toyota goes to safety test their cars. You have an engineer type and two children up in a booth, the children are observing as the engineer test crashes a van.
The children keep asking for more, until the Engineer announces they crashed every van and there aren't any more. The Children respond.. "How about your car"
Chevy also did a similar version of this ad a few years back when they used a V6 Tracker to attempt pulling a semi.
btw, you can play the 60 second ford gt commercial on fords web site.
like those dodge ram commercials with to 2 goofy guys. i can do without the durango ones with the husband/wife.
another thing, bmwusa has some short films on their website. they are a couple of years old, but pretty good. clive owen is the 'driver'.
True that, and some A-C-D* cars had it 25 years before Citroen.
*Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
This commercial is the one that introduced the "Moving Forward" slogan, I think.
The voice is kind of nerve grating, I think it would be better with a different song or singer.
"Hey, ho, up and go!"
If it were me in that situation, you can bet I would've stopped and grabbed all of that cash! Or rigged up some type of net to catch all of the flying bills!
http://video.luxology.com/article/113004_1/Citroen_C4.mov
Take the commercial as is, but subtract the Buick...then jump back a few years and stick in the new Mercury Marauder. Add more engine sound/exhaust noise and rock on.
Might have helped actually sell some of them.
It's such a blatant admission that many people buy the trucks purely for image reasons.
http://video.luxology.com/article/113004_1/Citroen_C4.mov
Odie
At least around here anyways, most SDs I see are unloaded with only the driver. They are usually shined up pretty good, too.
Then comes this new Prius, weaving in and out of cars "driving in place." The tagline had something to do with the automobile's evolution and how it never really "evolved" until the Prius came along.
I thought it was a pretty clever ad, though the Prius is not my cup of tea, not the new one anyway...