mitsu, porsche, and vw are the best

i only like the wrx commercials for subaru ...seems to be one of the few car companies that are saying take your car out and drive it hard

 

vw remember that "turbonium"??? and that new Beetle turbo one that the guys can't find the car in parking lot...

The best one, is the one that feature the Jetta, with the wiper in harmory with everything, ball dribbling, people walking, moving stuff...kinda cool

 

i bought my 2000 jetta just bc of the commercials

 

was that the "new" body style one?

 

yes it was
took me months to find it too. i had to have a silver one, and silver was a limited production color the first year. i'll try to find a pic of her before someone hit her

 

mmm...is it a 1.8T, 2.8 VR6, TDI, or just plain old GL? I like that car, too with that silver....IF only we can get the 4-motion (AWD) version HERE :soapbox:

 

it was a 2.0l gls
the 1.8t wasn't out yet, the tdi was too slow (but can be made into a torque beat ), and the the vr6 was limited production..each dealer got like 1 a month the first year..and with the markup the price was

 

see that new turbo beetle s?
i want that engine in the jetta..i'd be soo happy to own that car

 

That 1.8T AWD Bora/Jetta sounds really really tempting...if only i can test drive it...

 

yeah i wish i could too damn europeans hogging the good cars

 

Damn Lan Evo and B tapper talkin about cars instead of commercials

Another thread hijacked

 

the worse commercials ever are toyota's latest ads for the new celica.. the whole "Looks Fast" marketting.. i say "latest" ads because when the celica first came out.. the commercial for it wasnt bad.. it had a silver gts driving around in the mountains.. and jets hovering in the sky.. it was a nice commercial.. also the canada celica gts commercial was nice too.. it had the celica revving then it went to some kind of computer generated view of the engine working..

but those "looks fast" ones are pathetic.. not only do they use BASE MODEL GT celicas.. it also makes the gts 6 speeds look weak.. but its all to sell the car right? and obviously it has been working.. toyota is just using the celica's looks now to sell their car.. and even better by adding the "action package" which once was known as the TRD Body kit wen the celica first came out..

before they looks fast commercials.. they had the "performance you can use" commercials.. these were also weak.. they used BASE MODEL CELICA GT again.. hub caps and no spoiler.. pathetic.. it was comedy as they tried to make it funny .. u know wat im talking about if u saw it.. but those commercials were pathetic.. oh well.. those who knowwhatsup really know the celica gts 6 speed (2000-2001) (not 2002 cause they are slow) know that they dont just look fast..

 

Actually, I'll have to disagree with you wholeheartedly. The concept was great. The car looks fast, so a dog chased it even though it was standing still. A cop pulled it over even though it was parked. And the best one, the old guy yelling at it to slow down--while it was parked. Simple. Creative. And engaging. They can't sell the Celica based on performance, so selling it based on looks is a good idea.

My question to you, I guess, is what do you think makes a great commercial? Just wondering.

 

yea maybe it would've been a good commercial if u didnt own a celica.. esp a gts 6 speed.. and seeing that commercial and degrading it saying it just looks fast.. i can tell you a lot of owners esp gts owners.. didnt like that at all.. at first they did use the celica's performance to sell the car.. when they actually used a top of the line gts 6 speed in it.. then after that.. they just used base model gt.. probably automatic too.. so tahts my view as an ex owner of one..

what i think makes a great commercial? showing the car in action.. like the wrx does.. and the first 7th gen celica commercials as i stated in my first post.. those are good commercials..

oh yea.. i see your sig.. nice camry.. howed u get it in 5 speed and close to 180 atw.. nice..

 

Well, I'm not going to beat a dead horse because advertising is a subjective thing. But here it goes

Showing the car in action is something everyone does. Everytime a car is on TV, it's driving down some road, or off road. The job people like me have (if it's a good agency) is to do something different. I think those ads are great for the reason you hate them. Because everyone knows the Celica has some spunk (180hp), it doesn't hurt to play off the way it looks either (It's a good looking car). For example, if it were a Hyundai Tiburon (all show, no go) I think people would have said, "anyone knows that car isn't fast." With the Celica spots, since it looks fast (and is decently), people found the spots to ring true. If you had the Celica driving down a road, it would have looked like every other spot out there. And no one would have remembered the commercials.

About the Camry. Like 5% of all Camry's came with a stick. Even fewer with the V-6. I was one of the lucky ones. I think only like 6000 of the V6 sticks were built. As for mods, I have a RMM intake, TRD exhaust, and and aftermarket y-pipe. There is a guy who just put a 7psi pulley on his S/C'd Camry (and a bunch of other stuff) who just dynoed his Camry at 260 hp, at the wheels. Nice, huh. He doesn't race much, but some M3 (not a new one) pestered him the other day. Left him in the dust (heh heh. A bimmer just got beat by a Camry).

e in sin city