Bridgestone ~ For drivers who want their cars to get washed up and stuck on the beach

The reflection concept in this ad is kind of interesting, but it leaves you scratching your head when you think about why you would want a nice Mercedes looking like it washed up on the beach without its tires.  If it’s either Bridgestone or nothing, don’t show a car with nothing.
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Mini Clubman ~ Etch-A-Sketch Paradise

The Clubman in the Mini line of cars has at least two paradise ads floating around the Internet.  The scenes look like this:

You can see that  no dolphins, flamingoes, or hairy-chested men in Speedos were spared from these fantastic line-art displays.
Here is the speedboat/dolphin version:

 
And here’s the Speedo/airplane/flamingo/metal-detector version:

 
In spite of the everyday symbols of [...]

Man pulls palm tree down onto his pick up truck

Enough said:

 
Aie.  So much for that bakkie.  This one is from South Africa.
If this were real, I can only imagine that SOMEBODY would want to know if he was all right.
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VW ~ Oceanside car breakup

This too-hip guy decides that he would rather drive a new VW Beetle than keep his old car:

 
…so he leaves it in a parking lot by the sea.  What a loser.  Poor car.
It’s a good reason to not buy an VW.
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DeLorean ~ okay, so you have gull-wing doors

It’s one thing to refer to "gull-wing doors" on your automobile.  Nobody really thinks of a seagull when you say it, but they know what you mean.  So, is the demise of the DeLorean such a huge shocker when you see the literal seagull images plastered all over this ad:

 
It’s a classic car and a [...]

Ford Escape Hybrid ‘most fuel-efficient SUV’

You wouldn’t know that this opening shot of a Flash ad from NationalGeographic.com is for an SUV:

Just because a car is more fuel efficient than others doesn’t make it fuel efficient or green.  But Ford wants us to believe that the Escape literally sits in a beautiful field of sunflowers:

I’m not buying it.  Literally.  I’m [...]

Escola ~ carnivale with or without the Argentinean Ford Ecosport party vehicle

If Marshall McLuhan was right that the medium is the message, this commercial for the Ford Ecosport from Argentina means that this medium to paradise is the paradise itself:

Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.

 
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Volvo C30 with ‘Sport Equipment Holders’

If you’re waiting for the Volvo surf vehicle to emerge from concept, you may be looking for a great car that won’t break you as you save up for the mothership.  The Volvo C30 is one of the hottest "entry-level" sports coupes to come into the market in recent years.  It seems that every detail [...]

Honda wants you to rejoice with the van gods and just to respect their van

Last year, this ad from Honda appeared in the July issue of Real Simple magazine:

It was meant to appeal to women with families, but I wondered if they had kind of missed their market a bit.  They were even afraid to use the words "Van Gods" without the caps and without the quotation marks.  Were [...]

Tropical ads built to Fit your Honda

After exploring in a post that perhaps the Airbus A380 was built to look like a dolphin somewhat like car makers give faces to their vehicles, I was happy to see two new tropical Honda Fit ads pop up over at Music Nation (which had a link to Rapidsea in their blog news round up [...]

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