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
That Cordoba commercial with Ricardo Montalban was the first thing that came to mind for me. "Corinthian leather." Whatever that is. The funny thing is looking back at it now, the car appears to drive like a boat with poor suspension. It actually lurches when it comes to a stop in the commercial.
I have a bunch of old National Geographic magazines, some dating back to the early '60s. I love looking at all the old car ads in them.
My favorites are the old Cadillac ads. This was when a Cadillac still meant something. When there was nothing else like it on the road.
I love the sense of style and "irrational exuberence" in those old ads. It was a different era, before Vietnam and Watergate and OPEC, when America still ruled the world.
This was too long for TV @ 3 minutes, but was very funny....
The Darth Vader SuperBowl VW commercial was pretty good
https://youtu.be/1n6hf3adNqk
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I should absolutely hate Big Bob and the Victory Motors ads, but instead I love them.
This one. Possibly because my high school boyfriend's name was also James.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE6JuLk1oBQ
I absolutely hate ads of all kinds. I never watch live TV (except UM football games) because there are ads. And during the M football games, I go do something else, like get another beer or smoke a doobie, during the commercials.
I have never seen an ad and thought "Now that's something I need to buy."
If I never again have to hear / see / think about the last few years of Buick ads ("That's not a Buick!") , I will die a happy man.
The commercials are insufferable, and it completely ruined a Matt and Kim song that I used to like.
Nobody brought up North Clark yet? It was all fun and games until he started bringing middle school girls in...
https://youtu.be/Onaos6lvy3Q
I can't think of many good ones that aren't already covered but I liked this Jean Claude Van Damme splits commercial. It was even cooler when I learned that it was real.
original superbowl commercial a few years back from Crysler. don't even really like Crysler's, but being from near Detroit, that commercial straight up made me cry.
Found the long version of the Subaru kid as driver:
Also, I liked Jill Wagner as the Mercury Girl.
Not quite a car, but anything with Linda Vaugh the hurst shifetr girl was the best.
Ya have to be old to remember those.