http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Really Bad Car Ad Thread en Sun, 31 May 2026 20:59:52 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-214102 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:54:45 +0000 wingpig 214102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jeep Renegade, featuring one tearing along beaches inches from the water, parking randomly on riverbanks and generally oafing about on wide stretches of open land in the way you suspect those people who drove across the Nazca lines drove around. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-202204 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:01:38 +0000 Baldcyclist 202204@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Must admit, still tickles now. It's bad, and wrong and all that stuff I know, but funny... </p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SInkO3jC9fg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SInkO3jC9fg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-202193 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:34:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 202193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I couldn't help thinking that this constitutes some kind of crossing of a Rubicon. </p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hcMOzMtx0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hcMOzMtx0</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-202169 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:50:52 +0000 chdot 202169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://amp.twimg.com/v/b4982f79-c376-464e-beec-53c653cec996" rel="nofollow">https://amp.twimg.com/v/b4982f79-c376-464e-beec-53c653cec996</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200476 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:29:26 +0000 wee folding bike 200476@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brian May did a Ford ad in 1991. You must have really not liked it.</p> <p>I should have worked out that it meant Freddie wasn't going to be around for long as Dr May had said he wouldn't do a solo album as long as Queen existed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200417 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:29:05 +0000 acsimpson 200417@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had that different view experience yesterday when my usual bus was replaced by a double decker. The most eye opening part was when it doubled back on itself in Inverkeithing. In a year and a half of bus trips through the town I hadn't realised there is a low bridge on the way to Ferry toll. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200387 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:51:52 +0000 twq 200387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A first look at the new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbO6-C2Yajg&amp;feature=youtu.be">Tesla Model X (video)</a>.<br /> Apparently the big windscreen makes you feel closer to nature. The acceleration is pretty amazing, until you think of being passed by one when the lights change...</p> <p>That being said, I wouldn't turn down a Tesla if I was being offered one! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200386 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:47:16 +0000 wingpig 200386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can't remember what sort of car it was but there was one with a kid grumping around whining about everything, only to shut up because everything is perfect when it gets into the spotless/silent/rock-steady car to be taken to or from school or somewhere.</p> <p>One for some sort of Audi, consisting of nothing but a motion-controlled shot of the back end of a car on some test-rollers with its boot open, depicting the engine being revved aggressively, complete with stupid flame-things emerging from the pipes at every gear-change.</p> <p>Anything with Brian May singing over the top of it.</p> <p>The Mégane adverts which seemed to be trying to imply that you should buy a Mégane because it was claimed that the tailgate was shaped like a buttock.</p> <p>Anything where a car is parked by swerving abruptly towards the kerb, usually filmed from some distance away with a long lens to hide the true length of the gap into which the car is swerved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200383 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:40:19 +0000 MediumDave 200383@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was that Landrover ad written by Basil Fotherington-Thomas?</p> <p>(hullo trees, hullo sky etc)</p> <p>Most car ads seem to show driving on empty roads at great speed. This seems wildly unrealistic to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200379 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:23:23 +0000 Min 200379@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In a similar vein there was an advert a few years ago for some car or other that was sold on the promise that you - the driver - could see out of the top of the vehicle. No more looking at all those ugly other cars, pedestrians* etc when you can admire the sky/architecture.</p> <p>*you never looked out for cyclists anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200377 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:09:51 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 200377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I find you also get that kind of moment the first time you cycle or walk a route you've only ever driven before. I just found it remarkable in that ad that more than 'ooh I never saw that before' was the sense f you being 'closer' to nature, within your car.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200375 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:06:14 +0000 cb 200375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Although I have to say, the first time you do a well-travelled route in a Land Rover/van/lorry you do have a lot of "well, look at that!", and "I didn't know that was there" moments. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15510#post-200372 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:52:47 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 200372@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pics or videos please. This one is from 5 years ago, but wanted to start with something. I loved that Land Rovers were being advertised as a way to see and interact with 'nature', all from the comfort of the driver's seat. My commentary on it at the time is below the pic...</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/8msJEP"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4121/4826043747_d125cbe460.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/8msJEP">Land Rover Advert</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/">Anthony Robson</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Advert spotted in today's newspaper. Basic message appears to be, with a Land Rover you can see over walls n' stuff so you're, like, closer to nature. Car size as a claim to ecological thought. Here's an alternative though. GET OUT OF THE LAND ROVER YOU LAZY ********!</p> <p>I like driving. Hell, I love driving. But if I want to see everything around me I get out from behind the windscreen. I use these appendages called legs. I spend time. I appreciate. But Land Rover, it would seem, reckon the great outdoors is something best experienced through the windows of a Chelsea Tractor.</p> <p>"Dahling, what would you like to do today?"</p> <p>"Well I was thinking we could go for a trip to the countryside."</p> <p>"Okay, I'll go and grab my wellington boots, the countryside can be awfully mucky."</p> <p>"No need my little pot of marmite, I've traded in the Merc for a Land Rover Freelander 2. Those walls will no longer stop us appreciating the greenery around us."</p> <p>"And I have no need to get muddy!"</p> <p>"I know. Why didn't we think of this before?" </p>