Your favourite motoring related adverts

Your favourite motoring related adverts

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rb26

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783 posts

185 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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My personal favourite isn't related to cars but to the Indian Motorcycle company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss3FpDy3bD4

In my eyes, advertisement done right.


irocfan

40,158 posts

189 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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great advert

swisstoni

16,855 posts

278 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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This one springs to mind. Not one for the teenagers...


iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Steve McQueen,a Puma,a Mustang and San Francisco.

Hamish Finn

476 posts

107 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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iva cosworth said:
Steve McQueen,a Puma,a Mustang and San Francisco.
A Puma?

bigandclever

13,750 posts

237 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Hamish Finn said:
iva cosworth said:
Steve McQueen,a Puma,a Mustang and San Francisco.
A Puma?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxAjyGJBZ8

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Audi A4 - tell Charles I'm on my way

BMW X5 - street luge

Audi quattro - answer to the eternal gliding problem

Volvo 850 T5 - stuntman

bigandclever

13,750 posts

237 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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I can't get that youtube link to work but to answer Hamish,yes the 1997\8 tv ad for the Ford Puma was a montage of Steve McQueen
stuck onto a film of a Puma driving round San Francisco and then he parks it in his garage next to a Bullett Mustang.

Leins

9,422 posts

147 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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That A4 "Tell Charles" one is probably my favourite

Always loved the RS6 rodeo bull advert too, plus the Dunlop one featuring falling pianos and a BMW 8-series

JonV8V

7,178 posts

123 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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It's been around a while and isn't real but still makes me smile


glazbagun

14,259 posts

196 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Somewhere out there is a Volvo 850 advert with a driver screaming "I'm a control freak!" as he prepares to drive over a ravine on rails. I can't find it so here's he Continental Tyres advert that's stayed with me forever instead:

https://youtu.be/laCh0toDJRM

sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Can't believe nobody's posted the R8 V10 advert yet. So simple but so effective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ku05R11Xpk

The Shell/Ferrari advert with the F1 cars is pure motoring porn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iItzJc-NHI4

Volvo's truck advert featuring Jean Claude Van Damme was quite memorable too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10

I also love the old Peugeot 206 advert. Very cleverly done and it's stuck in my mind since it first came on TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50A9wjJ40Dk

Goes without saying that Honda make some of the best adverts too - including these two gems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8VlX4Ekk80

glazbagun

14,259 posts

196 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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As a kid I knew Layla as he Vauxhall tune. I think I was about 17 when I figured out it was Clapton.

Heres my favourite 405 advert. Car driving past fields, st blowing up, 80's ballad. Fantastic:

https://youtu.be/i1_rH5VmaMg

For sheer advertising power I don't think anythin will come close to Nicole/Papa though. I think we may have actually turned the channel over to wait for the first showing hehe

Edited by glazbagun on Tuesday 28th July 23:44

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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glazbagun said:
Somewhere out there is a Volvo 850 advert with a driver screaming "I'm a control freak!" as he prepares to drive over a ravine on rails. I can't find it so here's he Continental Tyres advert that's stayed with me forever instead:

https://youtu.be/laCh0toDJRM
The Volvo stuntman ad is the one I mentioned above too

Here it is

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Here's the X5 Street luge one

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Codswallop

5,250 posts

193 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Some great adverts already mentioned. Two of my particular favourites are;

Honda's Impossible dream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmXjxdDBRI

BMW "Joy" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4wkZM9Zis

CB2152

1,555 posts

132 months

Tuesday 28th July 2015
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I like SAAB so this is probably of little surprise. I've written the bulk of it out in case the picture appears even more fuzzy here:

"In a recent magazine advertisement, a car manufacturer claimed that one of its high performance models could out accelerate a Ferrari from 50-70mph in top gear.
Impressive stuff, and an excellent test of engine flexibility and the power needed to overtake long vehicles.
But for those puzzled as to why they didn't include in their comparison a turbocharged SAAB 9000, the table opposite gives a fuller picture."



50-70 mph figures in top gear:

SAAB 9000 2.3T: 5.6s

Lamborghini Diablo SE: 6.3s

Porsche 928 GT: 6.5s

Lotus Esprit S4: 6.8s

Aston Martin DB7: 7.1s

BMW M3: 7.1s

Source: Autocar

Levin

2,019 posts

123 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui4PbW14ozQ

This early 1990s Ford advert remains one of my favourites. I'm not a big Queen fan, but I like how May's track was reworked to suit the advert. I'm sure it's cheesier than a cheesy thing by modern standards, but it has some great shots in it. The cut with the Escort being moved onto the transporter is one I particularly like.

The Peugeot 206 advert mentioned above would be my other pick. I remember that one airing on TV.

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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The Audi quattro gliding ad

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glazbagun

14,259 posts

196 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Levin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui4PbW14ozQ

This early 1990s Ford advert remains one of my favourites. I'm not a big Queen fan, but I like how May's track was reworked to suit the advert. I'm sure it's cheesier than a cheesy thing by modern standards, but it has some great shots in it. The cut with the Escort being moved onto the transporter is one I particularly like.
I remember that. And bought Brian Mays solo album. frown

Even more cheesetastic was the RS2000 advert. A shame the car was never seen as worthy of the badge, the advert is pretty much Rocky IV

https://youtu.be/8pPwjQVXrfA