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The Really Bad Car Ad Thread

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  • Started 9 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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  1. Wilmington's Cow
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    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...

    Land Rover Advert by Anthony Robson, on Flickr

    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 ********!

    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.

    "Dahling, what would you like to do today?"

    "Well I was thinking we could go for a trip to the countryside."

    "Okay, I'll go and grab my wellington boots, the countryside can be awfully mucky."

    "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."

    "And I have no need to get muddy!"

    "I know. Why didn't we think of this before?"

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. cb
    Member

    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    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....

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Min
    Member

    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.

    *you never looked out for cyclists anyway.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. MediumDave
    Member

    Was that Landrover ad written by Basil Fotherington-Thomas?

    (hullo trees, hullo sky etc)

    Most car ads seem to show driving on empty roads at great speed. This seems wildly unrealistic to me.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. wingpig
    Member

    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.

    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.

    Anything with Brian May singing over the top of it.

    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.

    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. twq
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    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...

    That being said, I wouldn't turn down a Tesla if I was being offered one!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  8. acsimpson
    Member

    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  9. wee folding bike
    Member

    Brian May did a Ford ad in 1991. You must have really not liked it.

    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  10. chdot
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    https://amp.twimg.com/v/b4982f79-c376-464e-beec-53c653cec996

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  11. I were right about that saddle
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    I couldn't help thinking that this constitutes some kind of crossing of a Rubicon.

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    Posted 9 years ago #

  12. Baldcyclist
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    Must admit, still tickles now. It's bad, and wrong and all that stuff I know, but funny...

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  13. wingpig
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    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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