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

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  • ryanbabryanbab Member Posts: 7,240
    i think its minor. They dont want to have it end up like the firestone/ford situation.

    Act before its to late you know. Im glad they didnt ignore it.
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    the commercial was a few years ago where the car came out of the sea like a shark... good fx
  • blarg1blarg1 Member Posts: 59
    Its too small, not a keeper. It isn't just slow, it's dead

    Saw this last night

    Car alarm going off, so someone drops a couch on a contour and crushes it, turning off the alarm
  • ryanbabryanbab Member Posts: 7,240
    seen the same commercial while watching boot camp and it was on again during the 9pm fox news
  • bdreggorsbdreggors Member Posts: 143
    It's for the Reeses Crunch candy bar. It's pretty funny though. I have wanted to do that so many times to cars in parking lots.
  • ravvie4meravvie4me Member Posts: 110
    those new Toyota "We're looking for a new spokesperson" ads are so annoying ("10 cupholders? I hope it comes with a port-a-potty!!"). And this coming from a TOYOTA fan, you know it gotta be bad! God I miss that TV Guy!!!
    Also, those Nissan "best I ever had" ads aren't too great either. And those Ford "get ready 'cause here I come!" make me want to run and hide!
    The latest round of Mitsu ads are pretty good, especially the Eclipse one that ends with "Wire it up, Baby!". Those are pretty cool.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,022
    ...I just saw that commercial where they drop a couch on a Contour to shut its alarm off, thought I'd mention it on here, but you guys have beat me to it! Actually it's a Snickers commercial.

    I am curious though...would dropping a couch on a Contour like that really cause that much damage?? I mean, I've seen cars sat on top of each other in junkyards that didn't cause that much crushing, but then, they weren't dropped from a height, either!

    -Andre
  • jkidd2jkidd2 Member Posts: 218
    Has some of the most hilarious commercials...

    I love the one with the guy in the jet pack...and the one with the Lincoln Town Car with aromatherapy candles....

    Very clever and funny too!
  • pks1pks1 Member Posts: 32
    commercials are the funniest only because they are so dumb. ex Who's car is that in the drive way? It's your Frank . It is isnt it... how dumb but funny wonder whats next for kia commercials. Oh who's car are we driving. Its ours Frank . It is isnt it.
  • blarg1blarg1 Member Posts: 59
    a kia is placed in a car crusher, crushed, then shredded. the owner then puts the mess on a flat bed and takes it back to the dealer. the service manager writes up a repair order, listing all the crushed and shredded parts. stamps in big red letters, "WARRANTEE REPAIR" on the bottom of the 47 page bill.

    the next day flashes on the screen, and we see a smiling owner getting into his perfectly repaired kia, and the service manager waving and smiling. as the camera moves around the leach, er i mean service dude, we see that he has his fingers crossed behind his back.
  • serpentkiserpentki Member Posts: 20
    I liked the older Kia ads, pizza delivery guys, tagging along with a Corolla for 100k then 200k miles, etc. They don't mind poking a little fun at their own product.

    I appreciated the humor in their ads. So when it came time to consider purchasing a new commuter car I gave Kia the benefit of the doubt, and have now owned two Kias and love them both.

    I was not comfortable with buying ANY econo-car, but it is what I needed at that time for my long commute. I never showed-off the econo Kia to my friends, yet I thought the car and the price were great. It just wasn't the upscale car I was used to driving.

    OK, now Kia introduced the Optima. I liked my little Kia enough to check out the new lux-sedan, then bought one. The Optima I DO show-off. I got a chuckle the first time a friend asked if that was my car in the driveway. "Yesssss, it is, isn't it!" -SK
  • davem2001davem2001 Member Posts: 557
    was the one from Suburu that said it had "unibody construction, just like a Volvo". Ummm...almost all modern cars are unibody. Yeah, it has 4 tires "just like a Volvo" and it has an engine "just like a Volvo" and it has a steering wheel, "just like a Volvo", too. Big deal!

    I remember a co-worker of mine talking about a Suburu and saying something like - "it has a special saftey body, just like a Volvo". It just annoyed me.
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,022
    was actually a Chrysler trademark, dating back to 1960! Unitized construction was around before then (the 1958-1960 Lincolns, for example, and I'm sure many cars before that), but I think Chrysler was actually the first to coin the term "Unibody".

    So tell your friend that his Subaru is also just like a 41 year old Chrysler!!

    -Andre
  • jkidd2jkidd2 Member Posts: 218
    I liked those commercials that had the guy, he appeared to be a New Jersey, Italian type that always looked @ the others in the commercials as fools....thought those commercials were funny.

    I hate this new guy in the Optima commercials....I hit the remote the minute one comes on.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Unit bodies go back to late 40s/early 50s Nash Airflytes and Hudsons. Some European manufacturers may have had them in the 30s, perhaps Citroen.
  • fischdafischda Member Posts: 272
    Advertising Age, a trade magazine, reviewed car commercials and gave high marks to the VW Golf commercial with the two guys who picked up the old chair off the street then ditched it because it smelled, all to the background music of some German song, "Da, da, da.." I liked that commercial, but Ad Age called the two guys, whom I thought to be roommates, "ambiguously gay." That was funnier than the commercial to think an advertising trade would label two actors in a car commercial like that.

    Now we have the new Hyundai Tiburon commercial with the two guys in the new car wanting to open it up on a twisty mountain road, but they're stuck doing 20 behind a line of RV's. One dude finally falls asleep on the driver's shoulder who disgustingly pushes his head away - funny! Are those guys ambiguously gay?!
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...with that logic, the two guys from Route 66 would be ambiguously gay too. Of course that new commercial with Popeye and Bluto is dancing on the razor's edge of homosexuality.
  • jkidd2jkidd2 Member Posts: 218
    I always thought something was going on with those two!

    What next, Fred and Barney?
  • fischdafischda Member Posts: 272
    Hasn't he kisses Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd on the lips? And Bugg's penchant for cross dressing is well documented!!
  • ajvdhajvdh Member Posts: 223
    Geez, he's just in touch with his femenine side.
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    Bad Spinach
  • crkeehncrkeehn Member Posts: 513
    An older man and a youth (I'll call them Father/Son because that is the way they act.) are riding in the Chrysler Sebring. The Son is driving. The father is touting the various features of the Sebring, and as he mentions them, the son trys them out. Then the father mentions the crash test results of the car, realizes what he just said and gets a horrified look on his face.
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    oh yeah... that's a pretty good one.
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    oh yeah.. I am reminded of the Civic commercial where the guy is talking on the cell phone at a stoplight next to a bus full of school kids. He gave the kids a weird face because they kept yelling and annoying him.
  • davem2001davem2001 Member Posts: 557
    That show the old Quattro rally car from the mid 80s.
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    yeah, Audi has pretty darn good AWD system back then - RWD backers had a ball, but they couldn't keep up in bad conditions.
  • dpwestlakedpwestlake Member Posts: 207
    Why to the commercials for Japanese sport sedans always seem to show the car sliding sideways, usually with the "kids don't try this at home" disclaimer?

    I wouldn't want a sport car that broke loose like that!
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    Car sliding is pretty cool to watch, but kids will try anything for a cheap thrill... errr.. true for some adults too.

    Then again, the Chevy Tracker commercial about the guy trying to tow an 18-wheeler... yeah, that happens - then they started to put the disclaimer - consult your manual....
  • davem2001davem2001 Member Posts: 557
    Two couples are going camping, one driving a Suzuki and the other has a CR-V. The Suzuki makes it to the camp, and the CR-V gets stuck in the mud. The funny part is, the girlfriend in the CR-V, says "don't worry, it happens to alot of guys", then gives this disgusted look and sighs.

    Not that it would make me buy a Suzuki over a Honda, but hey it made me chuckle.
  • jkidd2jkidd2 Member Posts: 218
    Anyone remember the Camry Solara add where the 30's something man sees some kids playing on their "slip and slide" and joins in the fun?

    Some disabled man sued Toyota over that add because they had no disclaimer warning people of the dangers of "slip and slides"!

    Toyota actually gave in...and put a disclaimer on it.

    Good grief!
  • orangelebaronorangelebaron Member Posts: 435
    Every year, begging us to buy their cars with 0.9 financing.
    Hey Chrysler, stop spending the money on slick commercials and expensive airtime and put that money INTO your cars. Then, they might be better cars and you wouldn't have to advertise so much!
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    finally saw the new Isuzu commercial... not bad. I even like the styling of that SUV *gasp* I hate to drive an SUV though.
  • crkeehncrkeehn Member Posts: 513
    Talking about the Billionaire that paid so much to go to the International Space Station. Jaguar promises him a rocket ride for about 19 million less, plus he can drive.
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    Oh yeah, I like that Civic commercial with four teenagers and a pre-teen boy - The boy sat in the middle of the back seats and he has feet room in the middle. However, he moved his feet to both sides and his sister(?) yelled at him....
  • davem2001davem2001 Member Posts: 557
    The classic old commercial with the jeweler cutting a diamond in the backseat of a Ford LTD, which of course inspired the classic Saturday Night Live skit with the Rabbi doing a circumscition...
  • lancerfixerlancerfixer Member Posts: 1,284
    One of ther funniest SNLs ever...
  • bushonebushone Member Posts: 39
    ....funny, except to the baby. They call him shorty now-a-days! :)
  • odie6lodie6l Member Posts: 1,173
    thing about the Jeep GC is the 2 commercials they had:

    1. Jeep GC covered with mud, family get out and starts to walk away. Jeep starts shaking like a wet dog to get the mud off. Family get covered. I laughed at that one.

    2. The bugs bunny affect with the Jeep GC driving under the DEEP snow (being in the Northeast I can relate to the deep snow). Stopping and turn at the stop sign, which you didn't even know it was a jeep till the lights came on at the stop sign.

    Odie
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    Time to pull this annoying "right here, right now" Toyota sales event commercial that keeps playing over and over and over and over and over again. I'm sorry "right here right now" is another one of those Seinfeld joke sayings(where he slams dumb common jargon). If I did want to make the mistake of inquiring at a sales lot about a Toyota I would never be inspired by a commercial like this. Complete with the dopey loud singers........sticks like a nightmare baby!!!

    2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick

  • ryanbabryanbab Member Posts: 7,240
    When the guy disassembles the toyota highlander
    to compare the two
  • jkidd2jkidd2 Member Posts: 218
    I could not agree with you more....those Toyota adds are incredibly annoying. Where did they get that singer? Her voice is like listening to someone take their nails and run it down a chalk board.
  • bushonebushone Member Posts: 39
    Joe Izuzu is a cultural icon, a hero. Don't speak I'll of a legend!
  • ryanbabryanbab Member Posts: 7,240
    i wasnt talking "i'll" of him. I get a laugh out of that commercial everytime i see it. Especially when the guy comes out and unlocks his doors and he says everything is labeled

    Ryan
  • bushonebushone Member Posts: 39
    I forgot my smilie! :);)
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    I like the one where Joe dismantled another SUV - the owner of that SUV came out puzzled... :)
  • ryanbabryanbab Member Posts: 7,240
    thats the one i am talking about
  • bdreggorsbdreggors Member Posts: 143
    See how Joe confounds all who see him? ;-)

    I agree on the Toyota commercial. How about pulling the plug to that spot, right here, right now?

    Honda commercials are pretty lame, too. "It'll take you to the beach, it'll take you to the desert, but one place it won't take you to...is the cleaners!" The jokes are so lame and so old. I keep thinking I'm gonna watch 'I Love Lucy' after the commercial is over!
  • ravvie4meravvie4me Member Posts: 110
    especially the two Honda ads circulating currently. One showing a variety of gas pumps before winding up on a Honda symbol (civic) and the other with a gas jockey changing gas prices every other second (accord; an ugly gold colored one at that). OOOOHHHH gas prices are going up (duh) better rush out and buy me a Honda! Not.

    Those three commercials for "the new Q" are getting on my nerves. Those outnumber the "right here right now" Toyota ads by quite a bit in my area. They sure are advertising that way over-priced Nissan quite abit.

    I like those Lexus LS430 commercials. "Imagine the perfect car." Talk about truth in advertising! An exec (I assume) is sitting in his office and a LS430 forms around him. Perfect. Toyota's ad team has a winner here! Direct and to the point.

    Something was said earlier about the Jaguar XJ8 lease ad about the guy who dropped 20 mil for a spaceship ride. If I had that much cash to blow, I certainly wouldn't LEASE a vehicle. Think about it. I wonder if Ford's brain trust had something to do with this ad?!

    Don't get me started on those Acura ads...
  • ineto6ineto6 Member Posts: 161
    come on - get start on the Acura ads already :D
  • jkidd2jkidd2 Member Posts: 218
    I don't hate Acura, but I hate those Acura adds.
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