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VW Superbowl Ad
« on: February 03, 2011, 01:56:10 pm »
This ad is making the rounds and will be aired during the Superbowl Sunday.  Very well done by VW.  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R55e-uHQna0
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2011, 04:53:48 pm »
Hope the other ads will be SO MUCH BETTER........... :-\...but then again WE DON'T SEE MOST OF THE USA Ads.......'cos we are much smarterer.... :think: :light: :shuffle: >:D...


 Heard there will be NO CHEERLEADERS @ the GAME.......so NO T&A....  are the players wearing Basketball pants and the Linebackers BRAS...!!!???? ;D :rofl2:
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2011, 05:04:10 pm »
Although very cute, I don't think it's an effective ad at all.  So is the point?  It has standard remote start?

This is my fav Vader ad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fwEmP2CKY
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2011, 05:10:20 pm »
Ah young VWalker, may the farce be with you. ;D
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 05:55:26 pm »
..Works fer ME every time.....................i just lose the Cape & Headgear................ :rofl2:...............
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2011, 08:34:07 pm »
Kind of amusing, but I don't get it?

Also I thought it was a Jetta.
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 09:27:02 pm »
I liked that black Beetle ad for the new new Beetle
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 09:58:37 pm »
Quote from: mmret on February 03, 2011, 08:34:07 pm
Kind of amusing, but I don't get it?

Also I thought it was a Jetta.

The new Passat has been made generic like the new Jetta.

I suspect the ad may be better than the car.
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2011, 10:26:10 pm »
Quote from: tpl on February 03, 2011, 09:27:02 pm
I liked that black Beetle ad for the new new Beetle

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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 11:13:10 pm »
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2011, 12:11:10 pm »
 :rofl: :rofl2:.Wonder why they are not selling in the Middle East..... ??? :shuffle: :think: >:D....maybe a DUNG BEETLE version...... :)..they know how to move the Shyte.................
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2011, 01:43:32 pm »
Quote from: Mike on February 03, 2011, 01:56:10 pm
This ad is making the rounds and will be aired during the Superbowl Sunday.  Very well done by VW.  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R55e-uHQna0

That's funny!!!   :rofl:
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2011, 06:27:10 pm »
Yah I like the Beetle ad. The Passat ad is just trying to inject some excitement into an otherwise boring vehicle.
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2011, 01:01:49 pm »
..Yeah......it's a BLAST..................... :run:................just a smattering of Brains woulda pulled that.......... ;)
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2011, 01:30:25 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Bob on February 03, 2011, 11:13:10 pm
Best VW ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4fagTyaM4

 :rofl2:

I think the all time best VW ad went like this:

Late at night or early ( pre dawn morning)  A woman who looked like Princess Di lets herself out of a house. She throws her fur coat into a bin. She takes off a diamond ring and throws it ( IIRC) down a drain. She is just about to throw the car keys away and she see the VW logo on them  so she keeps them, gets into a Golf (IIRC could have been a Polo) and drives off.   It got banned. Not because of the Diana look alike but because the background music was a Hymn tune... which I cannot remember the name of, but a famous one in C of E terms anyway. Some people complained.



FOUND IT! good old YouTube  how did we exist without the 'net.  I have no idea what the Hymn words are. AHA it is "What a friend we have in Jesus"
And I see my memory is not quite accurate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBP0ekudHpE&NR=1
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2011, 01:42:24 pm »
Have you seen the Top Gear version of that? It's hilarious!
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2011, 04:15:51 pm »
We were taught (albeit briefly) that the effectiveness of an add was to convey an important benefit of the thing you were advertizing.  Being funny and creative is nice...but if it's not attached to the "thing", then it's not very useful.

Here's the one I recall seeing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnEbNgHFco
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2011, 04:39:27 pm »
Quote from: TopGun on February 05, 2011, 04:15:51 pm
We were taught (albeit briefly) that the effectiveness of an add was to convey an important benefit of the thing you were advertizing.  Being funny and creative is nice...but if it's not attached to the "thing", then it's not very useful.

Exactly right. The same point I was making over in the Kia Optima thread.

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Here's the one I recall seeing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnEbNgHFco

False advertising though. There is no frost on the inside of the VW's windows. ;)
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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2011, 12:05:49 am »
Probably just boils down to that a lot of 35-50 year old men:
1) like/love Star Wars
2) are family men and love their kids
3) buy family sedans



 



 




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Re: VW Superbowl Ad
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2011, 09:11:14 am »
Quote from: kardood69 on February 07, 2011, 12:05:49 am
Probably just boils down to that a lot of 35-50 year old men:
1) like/love Star Wars
2) are family men and love their kids
3) buy family sedans

Well, 2 outta 3 ain't bad.

Hey I noticed that you didn't say "are family men and love their wives and kids".   ;D
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