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

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5GD5_gRGiI&feature=player_embedded

    I gotta say, this type of viral marketing is pretty genius. Rhys isn't as well known as, say, Ken Block, but I bet the 18-25 year olds are eating this stuff up.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    edited January 2012
    The same ones who don't really like cars at all? The ones who are into cars seem to have some of the same stereotypes about the brand as others.

    There's been a Millen-Hyundai link for ages, guess this makes sense. The turbo model couldn't come soon enough, give it actual cred.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited January 2012
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    Suzuki Relies on Dogs To Pitch 2012 Kizashi in Super Bowl Ad
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,352
    Kizashi? Do they still make that?

    A dog pitching a dog. Appropriate.

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Edmunds says that the "2012 Suzuki Kizashi is one of the best among midsize sedans."

    2012 Suzuki Kizashi Sedan
  • loncrayloncray Member Posts: 301
    Gesundheit! :P
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    There's been a Millen-Hyundai link for ages

    I thought it was fairly recent.

    Uncle Steve (Stillen) always focused on Nissan.

    Rod Millen (Rod Millen Motorsport) did Mazda/Ford for a while, and didn't he switch to racing Tacomas in Hill Climbs? When I had my '91 Escort GT I ordered parts from RMM.

    Rhys has been drifting, I think since the Genesis coupe came out, right? Not sure to be honest.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    VW and now Suzuki, this bowl has gone to the dogs! ;)
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    Many years anyway. I still don't see how drifting is some kind of sport, either. Zzz
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    Gesundheit!

    Someone contact Leno staff. "What is Kisashi?" would be a good question for Jay to ask the man/woman on the street.

    More creative though than CTS, TL, 3, MKZ, etc,
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I agree but that probably means we're both too old. :sick:
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I guess they market LED lights now, and not cars?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw9ZeXB2uKs&feature=player_embedded

    That's for an S7?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I like this one, but they inadvertently make FWD look helpless. :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WKGDCY7YaA&feature=player_embedded
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    There's been a Millen-Hyundai link for ages, guess this makes sense.

    The Hyundai Veloster got plenty of product placement, almost a commercial, when it was reviewed on new cable tv show, last Tues night, on Velocity channel, Vincenza Garage. The Host, Courtney Hansen, was asking many questions about the deep red colored car. (She has own web site at her name .com)

    Previously, last Autumn, Courtney Hansen was riding with Rhys Millen who was practicing for a drifting event in his Hyundai Genesis coupe at a track when the engine caught fire. Both escaped the car unscathed.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited January 2012
    That show (Vinsetta's Garage) has been sort of disappointing. I expected a lot, given I'd read Autoweek for a while, and it's less mainstream and more enthusiast-focused.

    But...it so weak on content. They show sponsor logos every chance they get, so it feels like one long commercial. :(

    The highlight is when they're sitting around the office and they each list their favorite _________.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    edited January 2012
    http://www.autoblog.com/2012/01/27/matthew-broderick-to-reprise-ferris-bueller-r- - ole-in-honda-super/

    this means the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider will not be appearing, replaced, according to the report, by a 2012 Honda CR-V

    That's criminal...

    Actually, maybe it's not, if that's what gets pushed off the cliff.

    Plus that 250 GT was fake, IIRC.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    Glitter vampires have as much to do with cars as LEDs have to do with good taste.

    You can get tack on LEDs for anything, I think I saw them on an old Astro van not long ago.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    image

    A CRV?!

    Grace!

    Ferris loses a lot of cool as a middle aged guy in a Honda, sorry to say.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    And now I can't get that silly tune out of my head....

    Doh-doh. Chi Chi-KAHHHH...
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Could be worse, he could be driving a Prius! I wonder if Cameron has a new M5? He had a beater Bimmer in the original movie.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    I hope there is no remake. No John Hughes = no go. Most everything he made was great, and he was even good at casting cars.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    Cameron actually had a junky 70s Alfa sedan. I assume his dad the car guy gave it to him.

    Seeing how Ferris theorized that Cameron would go for his first girl and be owned by her, he'd probably be in that Prius or maybe an RX :shades:
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Wonder what Mr. Rooney would be driving today? He had either a Plymouth Reliant or Dodge Aries in the first movie.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited January 2012
    That show (Vinsetta's Garage) has been sort of disappointing.

    I caught a bit of it last week visiting friends who have the Dish. The segment was one of those YouTubish style dashcam/blond model type ridign shotgun with one of the Autoweek editors. I lasted maybe 90 seconds before the inane dialog and her frozen smile got to me.
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    That show (Vinsetta's Garage) has been sort of disappointing.

    The excellent host, Courtney, makes up for any shortfalls by the producers of the show.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Oh, you mean the blond riding shotgun was the host?

    Yikes. I hope that's not indicative of one of those must see/appointment TV shows. Seemed pretty lame to me. :sick:
  • xrunner2xrunner2 Member Posts: 3,062
    I lasted maybe 90 seconds before the inane dialog and her frozen smile got to me.

    Give it a chance. Don't be so serious. Some of it is just fun and silly. Like the segment they did about a week ago in Frisco (I think) of a soap box derby for adults.
  • ab348ab348 Member Posts: 20,352
    But Suzuki cannot give them away. It is a dog when it comes to sales.

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited January 2012
    90 seconds is about the limit of my attention span. :)

    Suzuki only has about 250 dealers so that really hampers sales too.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Wonder what Mr. Rooney would be driving today? He had either a Plymouth Reliant or Dodge Aries in the first movie.

    Base Caliber...
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Courtney used to do Overhaulin' with Chip Foose; that format worked better for her.

    She moved to the Power Block on Spike TV, and her role went down hill from there. She still seems out of place on Vinsetta's Garage.

    She's Jerry Hansen's daughter, of SCCA racing fame, so she's been around cars for a while. I just wish they would stop "Dolling" her up and just let her hang out in jeans and a T-shirt. I feel sorry for her.

    I'll give it a few more chances. American Top Gear was awful in its first season but even that got better.

    It's hard to make a good auto-themed show because you just have to dumb it down to grab a big enough audience.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    edited January 2012
    Base Caliber sounds good. Later fleet spec PT Cruiser maybe. Or perhaps something hard to love like a trunkback Versa or maybe a previous trunkback Yaris. Hughes chose cars for the characters and they worked well.

    Realtor mom would be in a RX or ML/GX or GL or maybe a GC or SRX if the domestic theme was to continue - no more K car woody. Typical 80s exec dad would drive an A6-A7 - to replace the Audi 5000. What would replace Shawna/Jean's Fiero?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Maybe a Solistice coupe.

    Not sure what still-in-production car he'd drive, maybe a V6 Camaro.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    V6 Camaro or Mustang could work.

    I see the ad is online now, not the coolest thing.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Used car dealers usually have terrible ads but this may be a new low:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PMxSZQZuBYc#!

    Sell stock if you own it. :lemon:
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Previewed here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGp3fRrNDoY
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Lovely. Should make up for the awful cars.com ad.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEcDxL2l9VM&feature=player_embedded

    No Panamera or Cayenne images so big thumbs up from me! :shades:
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    For balance...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d8DjFTT8T_Q
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Wonder if the model will fly away this time? :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmgmeprnVlo&feature=player_embedded#!

    Actually this one has potential to be good....
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XmdQjJ7BM&feature=player_embedded

    I want one of those couches. Not sure if wifey would agree, however! :D
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA&feature=player_embedded

    I kinda like it, actually.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    edited January 2012
    I don't like it. It's not about Ferris, it's about Broderick, in my eyes. No supporting cast. Although if Ferris became a boring middle aged office worker who has to fake sick to call in to work, that's the right car.

    The jump at the end is funny too, I wonder how much that cost...soft roaders aren't made for any harder driving than the transition between the street and the shopping mall parking garage :shades:
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    Looks like more PR stuff than actual car commercial, IMO.

    Speaking of commercials, I am really getting tired of the "reinvented" Camry ads. It's not reinvented, it's simply a new model. Same demographic, same image.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1R4BWtBIGJ0

    It's OK, but I think of Philly when I hear that tune, and I don't think they have any links to that city, so to me it's a near miss.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    This one's funny...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KEq74TCDGtc
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Not as good as Cheetah:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vd_IqOb7pW8

    The weakest of the 3.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Good one, very bold:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yiah1fJ1MwM

    They'd better back that up.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    The jump at the end is funny too, I wonder how much that cost...

    How much does a CR-V run nowadays? :D
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,517
    I'd say some suspension work and possibly body work was in order, anyway.

    I think a lot of children of the 80s will be disappointed with that ad.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Any stunt involving a jump would pretty much total a car. Would you buy a program car like the M5 they used in BMW films "Star", with Madonna? Not me.

    Clive Owen was great in those.
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