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#6546 of 7128 Re: Fusion invisible [ateixeira] by kyfdx@Edmunds HOST

Nov 06, 2012 (4:27 pm)

Replying to: ateixeira (Nov 06, 2012 2:33 pm)
Same here... the local TV stations are in Ohio....
 
What I don't get? One side will advertise, only where their likely voters are listening (like the local red-neck talk radio), but the other side doesn't even run one ad... It's like there is no way to convince anyone that isn't in your "demographic", so don't even try... Just try to get your demographic to the polls..
 
Whatever happened to trying to sway voters?

#6547 of 7128 Autoblog remembers Suzuki ads by ateixeira

Nov 08, 2012 (12:16 pm)

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/07/remembering-suzuki-of-america-in-commercials/-
 
The Pez one was funny, I bet both the folks who bought an X90 watched it first.
 
No wonder they failed, what a bunch of odd commercials.

#6548 of 7128 Golf VII by ateixeira

Nov 12, 2012 (1:38 pm)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=itYj-5kyYkQ
 
Funny thing is they probably think Americans are really like that cowboy they show...

#6549 of 7128 Re: Golf VII [ateixeira] by fintail

Nov 12, 2012 (1:53 pm)

Replying to: ateixeira (Nov 12, 2012 1:38 pm)
Ha, I have seen that ad three times so far here. Not a big TV fan and there's less here than at home, but I like "Trodel Trupp" and "Achtung Kontrolle"

#6550 of 7128 Re: Golf VII [ateixeira] by robr2

Nov 12, 2012 (2:13 pm)

Replying to: ateixeira (Nov 12, 2012 1:38 pm)
Haven't heard Depeche Mode in a long time.

#6551 of 7128 Re: Golf VII [robr2] by ateixeira

Nov 12, 2012 (2:50 pm)

Replying to: robr2 (Nov 12, 2012 2:13 pm)
Yeah, you liked the sound but never quite fit in with the girls who listened to them.

#6552 of 7128 Nissan Schtick Stolen By Toyota by ab348

Nov 12, 2012 (4:47 pm)

You might remember the ad from a year or so back for the Nissan Maxima - the one where the Z-car owner gets the news from his wife that they're having a baby, and he goes and looks at his Z-car with a look of lament that he will have to get rid of it now, before he starts tugging on various parts of it to make it bigger and through the magic of Nissan's CGI special effects, turns it into a Maxima.
 
Now Toyota - maybe only in Canada, I don't know - is doing the exact same thing in an ad for the Tundra. Only in this case it's a mechanic-type guy, and he stretches the crankshaft, the brake rotors and calipers, and the body.
 
It was dumb concept for Nissan, and even dumber for Toyota to steal it. Any ad that relies on CGI is by definition bad, but this one approaches a new low.

#6553 of 7128 Subaru Forester campaign by ateixeira

Nov 13, 2012 (10:27 am)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-lMaiJG7c&sns=em
 
With everyone going after the active lifestyle folks there must be a HUGE opportunity for someone to go after the couch potato niche.

#6554 of 7128 Re: Subaru Forester campaign [ateixeira] by fintail

Nov 13, 2012 (10:37 am)

Replying to: ateixeira (Nov 13, 2012 10:27 am)
A lot of the "active lifestyle" people are couch potato types who just want to put on a show. I still can't count the amount of ski racks I have seen on cars in Seattle, driven by people I know don't ski. A co-worker even wanted to put one on his Impreza, just for "the look". I told him it might get stolen quickly, if he caught my drift.
 
I think the full sized truck and SUV market hits a lot of couch potatoes.

#6555 of 7128 Re: Subaru Forester campaign [fintail] by ateixeira

Nov 13, 2012 (10:51 am)

Replying to: fintail (Nov 13, 2012 10:37 am)
What I've observed around here is the huge body-on-frame SUVs tend to appeal to heavier females, for whatever reason. Maybe the seats are wider/more comfortable?

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