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    Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials

    The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I heart Driving German Cars.
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    Image of jaymcminn jaymcminn
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The "Dah, dah, dah" ad didn't make the cut? Really? THe "Kleine GTI" ad and the '71 Karmann Ghia ad were brilliant, however.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @jaymcminn: Yeah, that one's a classic.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I appreciate that VW's ad money is the lion's share of the site's revenue stream, but aren't any of you in management worried about the credibility of a car site that doesn't acknowledge, at least once in a while, that the vast majority of VW's are utter pieces of overpriced crap driven by Apple Store shoppers who care more about a secret paint color you can only get on the internet than they do about driving dynamics or reliability?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/06/09

    @snapoversteer: As long as I can keep lighting my cigars with Wolfsburg-supplied Benjamins, you won't hear a single bad word about any VW product from me! Same goes for Ssangyong!
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    07/06/09

    @Murilee Martin: Nice. I didn't mean for my V-dub rant to accidentally splash bile on your entertaining ad retrospective. Your weekend postings are excellent.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/07/09

    @snapoversteer: No problem, just wanted to make it clear that we don't ever get any editorial pressure to say good or bad things about companies that do or don't advertise on our site.


    That said, if VW wants to send me a suitcase packed with cash, I'm all for it!

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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The British series "If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen" had little stories about lifes vicissitudes, in which the punchline was the protagonist turning the key in their Golf.


    I'll always remember the morning after the casino guy, and the unfaithful husband woman.


    Oh, and the one where the couple are in the car for hundreds of miles, and everything is perfect except for this continula tiny squeak. Despite endless searching, they can't find the source. Eventually they pull into a tiny service station in the desert, and the gnarly old proprietor leans into the car, looks around, and puts a drop of oil on the womans pendant earrings.

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    Image of the_gank the_gank
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    How about the GTI vs Prius "how does your Prius sound commercial?


    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :D

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @the_gank: It's actually hawking the Jetta TDI, but yeah, it's pretty good.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    You missed the "1949 Auto Show" ad from 1969:


    Absolute classic.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @tonyola: Genius ad. I wonder if, years from now, Hyundai or Kia might make a similar one costarring Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu and whoever else croaks before the end of the Carpocalypse.
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    Image of PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287 PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I still can't find a digital copy of the ad, but I remember it from my youth (early 90s I guess) It was a VW herder that had a farm with all of these VWs on it driving around. The ad ends with the farmer stating "You can tell by the gleam in the daytime running lights, these are happy cars!"


    It's a line that has stuck with me ever since.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/05/09

    @PotbellyJoe: Somewhere a marketing man just got his wings.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/23/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    I always liked the VWB Variant and the VWB Brasilia. Oh yeah, and booth aunts.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    I really don't want to find out any more about that "woman's" testes. In fact, I probably would have been better off not reading the car.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    Much more innocent times... when all a 'booth professional' had to worry about was a little 'alcool' and a top speed of 86.5 MPH.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    Funny how Brazilian VW's really haven't changed that much. . .


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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/22/08

    @Schm, problems around every corner: But the ladiez hazz.



    ( 2008 booth proffessionals)
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    Image of gdfowler gdfowler
    11/22/08

    @Schm, problems around every corner:
    "Traveling in a fried out Kombi
    On a hippie trail head full of zombies
    I met a strange lady............"
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/22/08

    @gdfowler: You're making me nervous.
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    Image of thefutureisnow thefutureisnow
    11/22/08

    @gdfowler: She took me in and made me breakfast.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    11/23/08

    @thefutureisnow: I never said that not changing was a bad thing.


    And I like those ladezz. They pretty.

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    Image of Schweppes - Now with more school work Schweppes - Now with more school work
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    I like the disco ball themed light fixtures on the ceiling.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    In those days the Brazilian Wax was on the cars.
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    Image of Vega Vega
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    I'm really sad.


    The post topic is booth babes. However all I can think of is how odd the Brazilian Beetles look with their combination of small pre-64 windscreen and side windows and later model features.


    I need to get out more

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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/22/08

    @Vega: The curved windscreens never made it to Brazil.
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    Image of Vega Vega
    11/22/08

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - now also back on two-stroke:


    I know, however i was referring to the side windows and windscreen of the standard models that got bigger in '64 all across the globe, except for Brasil. It looks especially odd behind the rear side windows, where the small window doesn't really fit with the later model vent...

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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/22/08

    @Vega: That's sad,when i think of Brazil,i think of the great beaches...
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/22/08

    @layabout: Yeah look at these waves, I´ll bet you can body surf on them.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    11/22/08

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - now also back on two-stroke: Maybe not, but I'm damn sure gonna try.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/22/08

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - now also back on two-stroke: You read my mind.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/22/08

    @Pope Deartháir II of Awesome: @layabout: She can teach you
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    11/22/08

    @layabout: I'm not going to beat around the bush. I would totally beat all around that ass.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/23/08

    @Vega: with "booth professionals" like that, it's no wonder that your attention is on the cars. Maybe if car makers followed the same strategy these days they might actually sell some cars...
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/22/08

    In reply to The Volkswagen Booth Professionals Of The 1979 São Paulo Auto Show
    Still hiding their knees, but much less church cloth look
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    11/22/08

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - now also back on two-stroke: Hammina-hummina. Must. Go. Visit. Brazil.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    11/22/08

    @Pope Deartháir II of Awesome: Once you are down herre you´ll never want to go up to cold winters with snow and rain. bleh..lucky me who got rid of that.
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