I'm with you. I always liked the M45.
You know what? I'm ok with it. The problem with T&A rock music ads is that they try to pretend that they're something other than exactly that. If creative is going to go that way and get away with it, then they have to go whole hog. And now that I think about it, it may even resonate with the demo: responsible middle aged man leading a responsible middle aged life, but who looks back on his youth through rose-tinted glasses and revels in his dreams. A Walter Mitty who listened to Crüe in high school.
Is it an ad for the ages? No, but it's comfortably goofy and that at least makes it enjoyable.
Here you go. [g.co] As you can see, it's not like the tunnel is right there at the intersection. (And as a side note, that gray building in the upper left is the US Mint.)
I used to ride MUNI's Judah line and passed through that tunnel nearly every day; although I never saw a car in the actual tunnel, I did see a few people mistakenly turn that way, only to immediately realize where they were headed.
I agree with China, but let me add a caveat: their status as an automotive superpower will be based on production capacity alone. From what I've seen, Chinese industry lacks the drive to innovate. Obviously there are (and will be) exceptions, but their entire auto industry is based on producing either vehicles engineered in other countries or shoddy knock-offs thereof, if not outright vaporware (see BYD). Really, the same can be said of any Chinese industry. What they have going for them now is relatively low-cost manpower, but unless some sea change occurs in Chinese industry, that's all they'll ever have, at least for the foreseeable future.
I have to go with the third generation Chevrolet Van side badge. Very much of its time, I can't look at it without the Sammy Johns song of the same name playing in my head.
Greg of Akron. Custom van murals, man.
If you can find a better pitchman—buy it.
I'll nominate the Blitzen Benz: did 140 in 1911 at Daytona—faster than any contemporary airplane or train and a speed record that stood for 9 years—then I think it was wrecked at Brooklands, after which the transmission was lost at Pendine Sands in another LSR attempt. Also, you got to wear a crown when driving it—at least if you were Bob Burman.
Anyway, here's a video: [www.jaylenosgarage.com]
Anyway, here's a video: [www.jaylenosgarage.com]
Wartburgamino vs. NSU-Camino.
Mercedes-Benz USA is on Google+ as well. [plus.google.com]
Low-hanging fruit and all that.
In Soviet Russia, hood pins you, apparently.
Isn't that Jonathan Pryce doing the VO? Nice job scoring Volvo and Infiniti at the same time.
For something that you'd expect to be sold with thumping club music and shouted hyperbole, that Jatech video is surprisingly (and refreshingly) restrained. Kudos at least for that much.
Yup, that's the one—Suzuki Verona. I knew it had something to do with Shakespeare!
Volvo S80 comes to mind, and I think some Suzuki mid-size had one, too.
Somehow I avoided this in high school for the most part, but the exception was this kid a year behind me: he got a W140 S600 as a junior. In retrospect, it seems fitting for someone who was known as a prick from the moment he arrived on campus as a freshman.
The Mercedes-Benz Rennsport Transporter. Wirtschaftswunder, indeed.
This piece is a little crass, don't you think? People's livelihoods are being destroyed and their neighborhoods ruined by marauding gangs; I'd imagine both take priority over the loss of a 20-year-old Miata.
Chad Ochocinco's got a Prius. He tweets about it all the time.
