OT: Talking Cars Tuesday - Your favorite car commercial
Inspired by Porsche's excellent new SuperBowl ad (full version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92sXWVxRr0g ), what's your all time favorite car commercial? I'm sure folks enjoy their rich Corinthian leather (Corinth is famous for their leather!), but did an ad ever work for you? Make you laugh? Make you want that car?
January 28th, 2020 at 2:30 PM ^
917, 956, 962: any of those three would be fine....
January 28th, 2020 at 5:51 PM ^
I wish the 956/962 featured in the commercial. Still one of the great cars ever made, still looks as awesome as when it was new.
January 28th, 2020 at 7:28 PM ^
GT RS FTW!
January 28th, 2020 at 9:40 AM ^
A) I just posted a TTT. I dont' want to compete with the originator so I apologize.
B) It may sound dumb but the commercials I really liked were the original Neon commercials. 'Hi'. I thought it was a clever use of the cars face and relative meakness.
January 28th, 2020 at 9:44 AM ^
I also loved the Joe Isuzu commercials.
January 28th, 2020 at 9:53 AM ^
I"m sure 99% of the board is too young to even know this commercial existed but when it came out it caused quite a public reaction.
Pontiac introduces it's new, revolutionary Endura bumper on the 68 GTO to the public:
January 28th, 2020 at 9:54 AM ^
So we aren't going to debate the leadership qualities of Hitler today?
January 28th, 2020 at 10:22 AM ^
I heard Hitler sucked LeBron's dick.
January 28th, 2020 at 10:49 AM ^
VW had a couple good ones a few years ago:
Greg Kinnear had some good Chrysler commercials in the middle 90's:
January 28th, 2020 at 12:51 PM ^
came here to suggest the darth vader one.
+1 to you sir
January 28th, 2020 at 10:17 AM ^
i'll just mention a couple of old iconic car commercials. the one was the buick jingle about 'wouldn't you really rather have a buick, a buick, a buick'
the other was/were the series of cordoba commercials with ricardo montalban, extolling the virtues of 'rich corinthian leather', which was mostly vinyl. he also said the name cordoba with an spanish accent, but in an american way (emphasis in original language on the first syllable, not the second).
i was so much older then. i'm younger than that now.
January 28th, 2020 at 11:47 AM ^
KHANNNNNNNN!!!!!
January 28th, 2020 at 10:27 AM ^
This one gets high marks for funny story line, technology, and production... and per the OP I love Audis... fantastic cars. But the maintenance on one is just out of control and I have other things to spend money on these days.
January 28th, 2020 at 11:03 AM ^
Sorry to end the discussion, but I have the correct answer. You all have fun nominating commercials for second place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCtipr5B0Hk
January 28th, 2020 at 11:32 AM ^
The one that stopped me in my tracks was the Eminem Made in Detroit ad for Chrysler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Hu0vppCEA
That said, there is a Hyundai commercical for this year's Super Bowl that is outstanding.
January 28th, 2020 at 11:47 AM ^
I was born in Detroit; loved that Eminem commercial when it came out!!!
The only 200 I have ever driven was a rental, had 5,000 miles on it, and the transmission would smoke and chug along going uphill. Ha!
January 28th, 2020 at 2:25 PM ^
True! I wouldn't endorse the 200 either.
January 28th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Nissan commercial where pigeons try to dive bomb on a clean car (danger zone as the music)
January 28th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
I liked the Toyota Celica "Looks Fast" commercials-
January 28th, 2020 at 12:00 PM ^
There have been some great ones, obviously. I have a soft spot for the Paul Harvey "farmer" commercial.
But the one that I enjoyed most when it came out (probably wouldn't like it today, but it was cool then) was the Nissan "toy" commercial. Here.
January 28th, 2020 at 12:13 PM ^
A BMW commercial: the driver pulls up to his house and a message pops up on this infomat from his wife stating, my mom just stopped by. Immediately, the husband backs up and leaves.
laughed so hard because I have done that myself
January 28th, 2020 at 7:32 PM ^
laughed so hard because I have done that myself
Me too. My MIL is just a mean person to everyone and everything.
I find the actor/driver just brilliant.
January 28th, 2020 at 12:31 PM ^
Not sure why Super Bowl ads leak so far ahead (also, completely forgot it's this weekend...), or why people seek them out ahead of time.
Half the fun of that game is waiting for a good commercial to pop up amongst the sea of over-hyped, lame commercials!
I don't think a commercial has ever made me want to buy a car. The Chrysler made in Detroit commercials back in 2008ish got me in the feels. One of the mustang commercials in the early 2000s was cool. The only media that ever made me want a car was some need for speed video game I played when I was younger. Blue Shelby Cobra with the white stripes is still somewhat of a dream car of mine because of it.
January 28th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
Smells like a steak and seats 35...
January 28th, 2020 at 2:06 PM ^
Mercury Mistress.
January 28th, 2020 at 2:18 PM ^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl2U1p3fVRk
January 28th, 2020 at 2:18 PM ^
+1 for Mr. Montalban and "soft, Corinthian leather"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKHBB4vt4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZLdhWjTSI
But let us not forget Mel Farr Superstar:
January 28th, 2020 at 2:23 PM ^
VW with the Fahrvergnugen ads were hot. Was that in the 80's?
January 28th, 2020 at 2:29 PM ^
1970 "You in a heap o' trouble, boy" Dodge Challenger commercial that would make today's PC police cringe.
January 28th, 2020 at 8:10 PM ^
Haaaa! Is there any doubt this commercial was the inspiration for the character of one Buford T. Justice?
January 28th, 2020 at 2:38 PM ^
I ended up buying a new '86 GTi and my Dad eventually had an '84.
January 28th, 2020 at 2:39 PM ^
Gee, Uncle Max, it sure pays to own a Volkwagen!
January 28th, 2020 at 3:16 PM ^
Pity I’m a YouTube posting troglodyte. I only have three words:
”Unpimp Your Auto”
January 28th, 2020 at 2:45 PM ^
Probably the Nissan Cats in the Cradle Super Bowl commercial/tribute to dads from a few years back.
I will say though, I hate commercials in general, and feel like most of them are incredibly stupid, and I don’t think there are commercials I hate more than the car commercials advertising the various sales dealerships have. “Hurry in before it’s over,” as if anyone in the history of humanity has ever rushed into a dealership worried they were going to miss the big sale. So annoying.
January 28th, 2020 at 3:11 PM ^
The Fiat 500 Abarth - Seduction ad was pretty memorable.
October 8th, 2020 at 8:20 PM ^
Thanks to advertising, a new Range Rover Velar became my dream, and I did not know that insurance and taxes on such a car would be so expensive. But I was advised to have a good site with useful information. It is https://www.general.com/blog/split-or-combined-single-limits. There are also all the hacks on how to make insurance as profitable as possible for yourself.
Yeah, that is hard to say something against, that the advertisement of Porsche is amazing.