These Are Your Favorite Car Advertisements

OK you jamokes. I asked for your favorite car advertisements and you delivered. I expected the usual, flashy Super Bowl ads, but what I got was a mix of nostalgia, laughs, and surprisingly moving moments I have yet to recover from. I may never.

I just quit coffee and today, instead of caffeine, I'm starting my day off bleary eyed and listening to Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" while considering contacting my local Volkswagen dealer today.

From HammerheadFistpunch

Though this one might be the best. And....it introduced a new generation to Nick Drake.

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The all-time winner. Not a word of dialog, and you barely see the full car, but tell me it doesn't tell a great story and make you want a freaking VW convertible.

Was scrolling down before posting because I knew someone would have already hit it.

From Xanthophyll, bfred and others.

From FutureDoc

Time to un-pimp ze auto.

Stormare makes everything better.

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I never got tired of these commercials. These are my favorites.

From Harmon20, BrianMadigan, others

From Lark Hawk, Earthbound Misfit I

This commercial still comes to mind today. At the time, I really wanted a Jetta, but as a recent Uni grad, had no money. This commercial didn't help, because it was so cool.

From dolsh and 17 Seconds

There are a lot that I really love, but one that stands out as being pure, wholesome excellence.

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And the subsequent version 2, now with 100% more HondaJet:

From AKBrian

The aesthetic, the sound, the feeling, the music. You have to be a bit dead inside not to feel something from this ad. Dodge, love or hate them, and Chrysler/FCA/Stellantis know how to make good commericals:

From Bengal55 and Milky

I'll drop one more in here, though there are tons of fantastic car ads out there, many of which are below. Mercedes Reincarnation ad is from a line of Benz ads that celebrated their history and the classics. This one is particularly sweet.

From Bengal55

You said student films... I LOVE this.

Mercedes safety system. Senses danger and reacts appropriately. It's... dark.

From JohnnyWasASchoolBoy

It was on the back of one of my auto show programs from when I was a kid, and always stuck with me – a lot of Volvo's advertising up through the 90's seems like it was inspired by the DDB VW ads from the 60's.

From Maymar

BMW

I always loved BMW's rear-wheel-drive ads. Shame they abandoned that real hard.

From TheSchrat

Cynical adult me only remembers commercials that are easy to make fun of (i.e. "Real People", actors shilling cars they'd never themselves drive, etc.) But adolescent me fondly remembers these two ad campaigns from the '90s:

And then the Chevy Silverado ads from 1998-1999 (doing "bullet time" before The Matrix):

That last one had a special impact on me because at the time, we had a 1984 C10 Silverado and my grandpa seriously considered getting one of these for a while before he got sick.

From dbeach84

Back in the 00s, there was the Suburban Auto Group in the Portland Metro area that had a wonderful series of commercials for the "Trunk Monkey."

From Knyte

Volkswagen is well-represented here. And I've got another one. From 1997, the Da Da Da chair ad. It was so popular when it came out, everyone was talking about it. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer even did a parody of it for a Microsoft conference.

From Lark Hawk