True comedy can break any language barrier. That’s what we think after watching this late 1980s ad for the Citroen Visa GTI anyway. Which, despite our marginal French skills, we found both hilarious and completely riveting. Get your French Navy on with the vintage advert above.
1970 was a terrifying time to drive a car if you were a woman, just ask Goodyear. The manly tire company approved this ad which let American men know that its Polyglass tire would keep the little woman safe, even if she had to drive to the airport…alone! Slide over lady; let a man take the wheel.
+ YouTube: Misogynistic Goodyear Tire Commercial
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In a move to make its SUV and other low mpg vehicles instantly more attractive, Chrysler has announced a novel new program to help customers with the rising costs of fuel.
Starting tomorrow Chrysler is offering buyers a gas card that will allow them to purchase fuel at a capped $2.99 per gallon for three years, with a bunch of caveats. The automaker didn’t specify, for instance, which vehicles would be eligible for the promotional rate, or how much gas would be allowed during the three years.
Chrysler did say that the program, which will have the automaker paying the balance of the gas cost over $2.99 a gallon, will cover 87 octane, E-85, and diesel. The fuel cards will only be able to be used at sanctioned stations that are as yet unspecified.
Would the chance at three-years of cheap gas turn your head toward a Chrysler product? Give us your thoughts, in comments.
+ Automotive News: Chrysler offers buyers $2.99 per gallon gasoline (subscription required)
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With sad clowns, a Citroen, and a Bon Jovi ballad, this commercial for the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival may move beyond being simply funny, and into the realm of true comedic art. Click through the link below to watch the video and judge for yourself, and then give us your opinion, in comments.
+ Ad Age: Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival: Bon Jovis
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To the uninitiated, it can be a little hard to understand the fierceness of the products that come form BMW’s M division. We think this recent commercial does a pretty good job of making the point. Good Dog.
+ YouTube: new official bmw m commercial!!! unleashed
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Volkswagen has launched an assortment of online videos to promote its newest member, the 2009 Scirocco. The second in the series, “Pursuit” shows a rather collected Scirocco owner outwitting a passel of exceedingly stupid police with one handbrake turn, and a game of “wait for it” inside an airplane hanger. Worst soundtrack…ever. Enjoy.
+ YouTube: Volkswagen Scirocco - Pursuit (via CarScoop)
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Vinnie Barbarino delivering mail on the back of a motorcycle as a way of shilling for Honda…I’m so confused? “Good things” may indeed happen on a Honda, but we’re not so sure we by Travolta in this role as a very unofficial mailman. Nice bike though.
Check out a slightly newer Honda model, the rip-snorting CBR1000RR, in our gallery below.
+ YouTube: John Travolta - Honda Motorcycle Commercial
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Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has found a novel way to introduce itself to the residents of its newest location, Kobe, Japan.
IKEA has taken over the Kobe Portliner Monorail; creating a kind of involuntary moving showroom for those commuting to Port Island, the home of the retailer’s newest store. The train has been enlivened with brightly printed fabrics covering the seats, and curtains hanging on the once bare windows. IKEA made sure that even those down on the streets would get the message of the new store, by covering the train’s exterior in a livery reminiscent of more IKEA products.
Check out some images of the train, inside and out, in our gallery below.
+ Pink Tentacle: IKEA decks out Kobe train
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Further proof that if it has wheels, someone will be willing to race it; we fully approve of the spirit behind this Cadbury’s chocolate ad, even though we haven’t the foggiest what it has to do with candy. Maybe chocolate will be the only thing that can soothe one’s jangled nerves after finding out your luggage has been mysteriously “run over.” Enjoy.
+ YouTube: Cadburys Airport runway race commercial
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A marketing attempt by a Chicago area convenience store chain has turned out to be just a bit too clever for its own good.
The AMPM ad (shown above on the first day it was up) was posted on local bus-shelters and featured a large wall comprised of tempting snack foods. The idea was that the bags of snacks would be slowly removed day-by-day, to reveal the tagline, “Too much good stuff” to the delight of hungry consumers. But local bus-riders were apparently much more ready to snack than the ad’s creators had anticipated, as merely two day’s into its run the snack wall was breached and mercilessly scarfed down.
We haven’t heard any reports of the snack thieves being tacked down as yet, but there is one substantial clue; they seem to hate Doritos.
(Click through the jump to see the ‘After’ picture.)
While most of the people we’ve talked to seemed to find Volkswagen’s European “singing dog ad” for the Polo to be amusing and rather harmless, a serious contingent of animal rights activists saw it differently.
Critics of the commercial referenced a portion that shows the dog, played by two terriers called Cody and Bear, shaking in “fear” of its owner. Some animal rights groups believed that at worst the dog was mistreated to behave in such a way, and at best was giving the wrong impression to the public by showing an animal that feared its owner.
(Click through the jump to read on.)
We know that when we were kids visiting the carnival, the bumper cars were the first ride we’d run to. This Dutch commercial plays on the feeling of invulnerability that those sweet days brought, by taking the bumper car out of the ring. Enjoy.
+ YouTube: Delta Lloyd bumper car commercial
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