After watching a video from some other country for what turned out to be the Subaru XV, it made me remember a commercial for the Hyundai Veloster from awhile back. Searching for the Veloster commercial lead me to the depths of youtube to find some other crazy commercials
wow. I m a ford guy but I may have to re think that after watching a cat getting choked out and the bird getting the stuffing knocked out of it. did those ads air in the U.S. ? I m not a big fan of p.e.t.a. but they would have had a field day with those commercials.
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The Street/SportKa is a Euro car, made in Poland
Controversy
In 2006, two commercials advertising the Ford SportKa proved controversial when it received complaints for its content. The first commercial included a pigeon flying away, and being whacked and killed by the bonnet of the car.[35] The second advertisement saw the SportKa opening its sunroof, to let a cats head in. The sunroof then closes and beheads the cat.[36] After many complaints, these advertisements were taken off air and they were not shown again.
Personally, I found them funny. No animals were actually harmed in the making of the commercials.
I also edited the first post because I posted the XV commercial twice; the Veloster commercial is now up
My favorite car commercial was for a VW bug. It was either a foreign commercial or a spoof of a commercial. A terrorist drives up in front of a crowded restaurant and arms his bomb. The windows are still up on the Beetle and it contains the explosion. All you see is bits of this and bits of that stuck to the inside of the windows of the little bug. The restaurant patrons just kept on eatingā¦oblivious to the carnage outside in the VW. All I could find was the British version of the commercial.
yeah @bscar2 , they were kinda funny, but the sad truth is that many people kill or drop off cats for the mortal sin of a few foot prints on their hood. you d be surprised at the number of people who think nothing of putting out a nice cup of anti-freeze for kitty
Any of the old farts here remember the Javelin ad, where a kid is working on a Javelin with a blower sticking out of the hood? The father comes up, points and the kids says āIt a supercharger. Makes a LOT MORE HORSEPOWER!!!ā Then he hits the thottle a couple of times. Dad reaches inside to turn the ignition off, āwhereās the full length carpeting, center console, and fully reclining bucket seats???ā āUseless weight at the drag strip dad!ā Commercial ends with the dad chasing the kid around the car, while the kid yells āITāS A GREAT CAR DAD!! I ONLY MADE IT BETTER!!ā
I recall one where a teenaged boy shows up in āhisā car (a beat-up Del Sol, I remember that much) and his girlfriendās Mom makes him switch cars with herā¦some brand of minivanā¦that apparently carried a 5-star safety rating. I guess Iām still too much of a delinquent teenager at heartā¦but he shows up in a CAR WITHOUT A BACKSEAT and mom GIVES HIM A MINIVAN to take her daughter out on a date!!! I āgetā the point of the commercial, but the logistical advantages thereof were immediately apparent to meā¦and, I would have assumed, every single adult in the viewing audience.
I hate cutthroat advertising and stupid against common sense commercials,the Saturn and Jeep commercials used to really get my Goat,at least GM finally slacked off a bit on their āapples and orangesā commercials(my not favorite,was when they hooked a 3.0 Ranger bumper to bumper ,with a 4.3 S-10,with an easily predictable outcome{didnt impress me in the slightest}
My favorite commercials had to be the Nissan ads and the KIA Hamster ads,really stupid commercials actually keep me from buying a product and its funny how the commercials aimed at certain Demographics dont really reflect the actual real world market(Saturn commercials really seemed to be off base around here)-Kevin
This past winter in the USA we had Acura ads where Santa was shown doing reckless driving. There were multiple ads with this theme and it was a bit disturbing.
Not to be a wet blanket but I didnāt find those commercials funny at all. I canāt believe people were really paid to come up with those. Talk about the European fixations and stereotyping. Donāt get me wrong, I wasnāt offended by any of them, I just thought they were silly and immature.
Remember the Dodge Ram ads that had the spokesman standing on an empty stage, talking about how tough the Dodge Ram is, and when heās about done they drop a Ram truck onto the stage behind him? I guess we were supposed to be impressed the truck didnāt fall apart, but it didnāt impress me one bit. What WOULD have impressed me is if the announcer then got into the truck, started it up, and drove it away without the wheels wobbling around.
Yeah they certainly wouldnāt show a General Lee with a bent frame or blown tires in an edited TV show.
Back when there used to be the dare devils come to town to jump ramps, run on two wheels etc. I remember the stock 61 Fords that they used. Never saw any damage on them but every year they would have new cars. No idea what kind of reinforcements they did to the frames and suspension though.