These Are The Weirdest, Cringiest Old Videos I Found On Stellantis' YouTube Channel

This is a great marketing idea, but recording people frantically digging through a giant sand box with the hopes of winning a new Wrangler feels like something a king would force his jesters to do for entertainment.

This one’s personal. I am grappling with the reality of how incredibly outdated everything from my youth now looks. I remember watching old footage from the ‘70s and ‘80s and asking my parents if that’s really what the world looked like back then because it seemed so improbably outdated. Now I sit here watching videos from my childhood and ask myself the same question. Watching everyone walking around with digital cameras is triggering me..

Watching average folks do these challenges is always slightly cringe. Pair that with the cringe of early corporate YouTube content and you’ve got a full-blown, skin-crawling cringe fest.

There’s nothing too bad about this video, but it’s just strange that the company chose to share this on its YouTube channel. Did Chrysler think this content was in any way compelling, enticing, or exciting for watchers? Gauging by the fact that the video sits just below 1,000 views after 14 years, that wasn’t the case.

Doug’s heart is in the right place. At least I think it is, this video doesn’t actually do much to explain the purpose of the initiative or the cause it goes to fund beyond sending profits to the Make A Wish Foundation. I love a good button as much as the next guy, but the fact that this video currently sits at 299 views and he talks about getting left on read by George W. Bush doesn’t bode well for the cause.

Chrysler promising quality improvements and innovative new cars like the impressively dull Chrysler Sebring feels like deja vu.

When scrolling through the oldest videos on Stellantis’ YouTube channel, many of the earliest videos focus on Chrysler’s commitment to eco-friendliness and alternative fuel vehicles. Those videos quickly wane in frequency until you see virtually no mention of alternative fuel vehicles. I understand that it takes a while to get a concept to reality, but Jeep had a Wrangler with an electrified powertrain 16 years ago, yet it took the brand 13 more years to release the Wrangler 4xe. The only Stellantis EV that’s currently on sale in the U.S. is the niche Fiat 500e, which shouldn’t be the case given how production-ready these electrified concepts looked in 2008.

The video title says it all. There are a few videos on the channel that have “revised” in the title, which is just plain funny to see.

The title card coming across the screen reading, “Chrysler Under The Pentastar” as President Barack Obama explains that the government has agreed to bail out Chrysler is wild.

These Ram heavy duty fans sure are passionate about their pickups. Seeing the buttoned-up white collar executives discussing how much they know their customer, and then cutting to the customers wearing cowboy hats and shouting with drawls is rich.

I have never heard of the PT Cruiser Couture, and it almost seems like the program manager isn’t confident in his knowledge about it either. That or he’s just struggling to make a gussied up PT Cruiser sound interesting. Either way, it’s a fun one.

This was the video that started me down the rabbit hole. I was searching for information about the Dodge Caliber’s tailgate-mounted boombox, and this video came up. Watching executives play the role of “relatable everyday fella” is a great recipe for cringe, and this video doesn’t disappoint.

This video placed so high because it has nothing to do with Chrysler or cars. It’s just a choir singing at an auto show, and it’s actually one of the most-watched videos on the channel which is even funnier. This choir did a fantastic job in this performance and they deserve their 115k views.

An actual quote from this video about Dodge Dart quality, “if we don’t build a quality product we don’t have any reason to exist in the eyes of the customer.” The Dart currently has 10 recalls issued, and is a notoriously unreliable and unrecommended used car to buy.

This video has 154 views after 16 years, and I honestly don’t know how it got that many views in the first place. I’m not sure if “webad” is supposed to mean “web ad” or if it’s some inside joke that was left in 2008, but the only word I can find to describe this video is unhinged. Someone please make it make sense.