Don't you want me?

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Sun 8 Sep 2002 12:11
Don't you want me? - Citroënian {P}
There seems to be a flood of adverts on TV for new cars at the moment. I really liked the ones for the Punto "Don't you want me baby?" but would rather put pins in my eyes than drive something promoted using Timmy Mallet's Wackaday. I think Fiat have got it badly wrong somewhere.

I love the new one for the Vauxhall Corsa where the cars are playing hide & seek just like children. Fantastically well executed, it makes the Corsa seem a lot more fun and tempting. Better than the annoying one for the same car where the girl starts rabbiting on about traction control and accelerating out of a roundabout.

Anyone else have any favourites / hates.

Lee.

PS - Timmy Mallett & Right Said Fred were the final nails in the coffin of me not getting a Punto. How sad is that?!
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Sun 8 Sep 2002 12:30
Don't you want me? - Tom Shaw
Of the recent ads the Renault Scenic was my favourite, the one with film clips edited in. All time favourite was the Fiat Strada ad from the seventies where the automated production line was working to a stirring piece of classical music. Fiat got into trouble over a billboard for the same car which said "Fiat Strada - built by robots, not by Robbos." For those too young to remember, a reference to Red Robbo, one of the finest engineers ever to grace the shop floor at British Leyland.

Worst has got to be the Peugeot 106 advert featuring the two airheads driving through America.
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Mon 9 Sep 2002 08:04
Don't you want me? - Daedalus
I always liked the VW ones with the Golf cying at having been customised.

Bill
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Mon 9 Sep 2002 12:59
Don't you want me? - RichardW
If some things are best left alone, how come VW are up to a Mk V golf???

Car adverts are totally wasted on me because:

a) I would never buy a new car
b) I would only buy a Citroen

Richard
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Mon 9 Sep 2002 13:07
Don't you want me? - Citroënian {P}
Hi Richard,

RichardW wrote:
>>a) I would never buy a new car
>>b) I would only buy a Citroen

That's exactly what I thought! And I can't rationally explain why I've changed my mind now without using the word "groovy".

Citroen seem to have pitched the ads right with the old bloke and the dog, but the screetching C5 one is starting to annoy me now.

Whatever happened to the Ryan Giggs ZX "Takes corners beautifully" or my all time favourite, the artist painting a picture of a red 16v ZX as it whooshed down a hill? The brush stroke on the v of 16V was just sheer class. I think it's the reason I wound up with my red volcane.

I'm beginning to think I'm easily influenced, perhaps I'd better not get Sky with the shopping channel else I'll be sat on the settee in my "big slipper", eating food prepared by my "Rap-Tu" while admiring my "Limited edition star wars plates" :-)

Cheers,
Lee.

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Mon 9 Sep 2002 12:22
Don't you want me? - L'escargot
Anyone else have any favourites / hates.
Lee.



My favourite car ad showed a Hillman Imp going round a curve in the road, with the caption "Tear round the dotted line". I suppose that these days the killjoys would criticise it for egging people on to go faster.
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Mon 9 Sep 2002 15:40
Don't you want me? - svpworld
Havent you noticed the cars that tend to be advertised, small hatchbacks and mpv's! Never seen an advert for an Omega, rarely see one for a merc or bmw, only once saw a vectra advert in which I don't recall seeing the car! Does this indicate flagging sales or just highly selective marketing?

Simon


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Mon 9 Sep 2002 19:00
Don't you want me? - Tom Shaw
Eurosport are running an advert during breaks in their bike race coverage featuring a middle aged guy who sets out on his Suzuki V-Strom. Every time he takes his crash helmet off he is amazed to find he looks ten years younger.

If it was a Harley ad they would have had to show a teenager setting off and ending up in late middle-age.

Sorry Growler.
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Mon 9 Sep 2002 21:16
Don't you want me? - Dizzy {P}
Funny, the last time the "Don't you want me, baby" advertisement featured in this forum, there was an outcry from those who had failed to spot its very clever play on 60s and 70s pop music words and characters.

This time around there have been no "Don't geddit" postings so I assume that everyone is now tuned in! The advert still tells us nothing useful about the car though, a bit like Clarkson really.
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