OT: Talking Cars Tuesday - Favorite Ads
Couple great threads in a row, looking to keep it going with your favorite advertisements. These could be print ads, TV commercials, general ad campaigns, etc.
What do you love? (Personally, the Subaru Dog Family ones get me every time) What do you hate? (Jan from Toyota- notice they never use numbers? They just say "great on gas" even if the numbers aren't competitive)
New, old, classic... outdatedly hilarious, let's hear the best (and worst) ways you've tried to have been sold a car
Big fan of Bob Seger and Chevy. So this is naturally my favorite.
I may or may not be a little biased though. Subaru fanboy here.
Kids apparently will watch anything and have terrible taste in cars.
'nuff said
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Obviously Hate.
a Farr better deal!!!
I used to love the "VW in the house" commercials.
That commercial is culturally significant for the way it illustrates the changing lifestyles of post-WWII America.
I'm old enough to remember when a second car was a big deal.
yes, stay at home moms in a "perfect home", moving to the burbs, having two cars and driving to shopping malls were all massive changes to american culture.
That showed advertisements for products that sounded good at the time, but got pulled.
Remember the Audi ad, "Vorsprung durch Technik"?
Ford had a counter ad to that, only aired a couple of times due to the backlash...
At the end of the ad the narrator says, "Between 1939 and 1945, Ford of Great Britain produced 38000 Rolls Royce Merlin Engines for the Royal Air Force. It is probability because of this in 1990 we don't have to say Vorsprung durch Technik".
The 2014 Super Bowl ad for the Maserati Ghibli, which I think was aired once and never again! But I thought it was fantastic.
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I had forgotten about this commercial but loved it when it came out.
I'm a long-time Subaru owner and their commercials get me every time. My favorite is the one showing a little girl who eventually grows up and starts driving the Subaru. I have an mgodaughter and that commercial hits pretty close to home.
I'm pretty sure this ad is fake, but it is still fantastic for many reasons.
'Who wants to be a fire truck!?'
'OOOH!'
always cracked me up. A buddy of mine and I always said that looks like us driving down the road.
I liked them all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWMpHc77qNI
"If you are ready for me to unpimp your ride, say 'what?' "
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The magazine muscle car ads in the '60s and early '70s were the stuff of dreams for a teenage boy.
The TV ads were all hokey, but the magazine ads were all bad-ass. A bunch of them covered my bedroom walls.
So . . . I remember this ad. One of our neighbors had a new Pontiac with one of these bumpers. She hit a post while trying to maneuver into a parking space, going like 1 mph. The vaunted Pontiac bumper disintegrated into shards.
We were all extremely disappointed, even just as neighborhood kids. What about that golf club commercial? We all felt cheated somehow.
"Drivers Wanted" slogan. It was simple and clever to me and explained exactly the type of driver that would want that car. i hated when they changed it to all grown up, sort of. Cars were ugly then too.
I think the worst commercial I remember seeing was some Chevy? truck commercial a few years ago where some guy had his old truck in the shop and his son was super sad. The mechanic said it was going to cost a lot to fix and wasn't worth it, but after loking at his son, he said, something like, I'll pay whatever. To me it said, "Hey, your truck will break down and cost you more than it's worth to fix, but your sentimental feelings about it will make you pay anyway."
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The car was a lemon, but the Pacer adds showing the occupants holding a 6-foot sub sideways inside it were very effective in creating a buzz at the time.
My Grandfather had a 1976 Caprice Classic convertible with this tune as the horn...It is now my uncle's doorbell. Love hearing it!!!
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I have video-taped various Michigan games dating all the way back to 1982. One of the coolest byproducts of this is watching an old tape and seeing the car ads which were always a staple of college football broadcasts.
Turns out the Fiero was not revolutionary. Who knew?
I worked at Pontiac headquarters on the weekend as a mail boy. On the walls in they had some concepts that almost made it. One was an early 80's Fiero convertible. It looked really good.
Had they been able to pull the trigger, and not have had the quality be a nightmare, (I have *no* idea where the top went) it would have been a heck of a car. A Miata or MR2 before the Miata or MR2.
Anything VW, but particularly the old VW Cabrio commercial with the teenagers driving at night. Best car commercial ever IMO.
On a side note, has anyone else noticed that Subaru drivers are all ugly. Strange phenomenon.
The 96 Trans Am WS6 commercials are still my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkDMPJRiKs
I remember when I was in Houston in the early 80s and a used car lot had a huge sign painted on their building: OWNER HAS BRAIN DAMAGE
We laughed about that then, but something like that would not fly now.
Like a Rock commercials are the best.
I like the Pacer, just because I love that this car was sold. With a possible denim interior!
The cordoba commercial is a classic (My dad had one. I loved this car as a kid)
And I always loved Joe Isuzu
Runner ups for me are the old Chrysler commercials with Iacocca. 'If you can find a better car, buy it...'
Commercials I hated? The Swagger Van. Ughhhh.
I also really like the recent Miata ad that follows a kid through his driving life cycle.