Golf Diesel Advert
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gtir

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24,741 posts

297 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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You know that one where they are telling you if you dont tattoo "Diesel" on your wifes/kids/dog/gerbil's behind you will actually forget you are in a diesel and stick in petrol!

Well apart from the stupidity of the advert, like when the guy gets his car out of the garage and you can see "die" on one side of the garage door very witty but when will he ever actually see the word "diesel", when the door is shut? When he is gassing himself? Thats when he goes "doh"!
Anyway, when the guy is at the petrol station and on his hand is written "diesel" when he goes to pay you can clearly see "GTI" on the back of the Golf, I thought they were TDI's?

Or had his wife wound him up and written "diesel" on his hand while he was pissed the night before, and also managed to swap cars to a petrol.
Ha, ha, just wait till he gets 1 mile down the road, god bless his funny wife!

Edited to add: Just writing down the witterings of my brain while I wait for Bonce to tell me what to do. Bonce, Bonce!

>>> Edited by gtir on Thursday 3rd April 09:53

s2ooz

3,005 posts

315 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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when he goes to pay you can clearly see "GTI" on the back of the Golf, I thought they were TDI's?



nope there golf TDi GTi

g4ry13

21,999 posts

286 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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In fact it's called the Golf GTi TDI PD if i'm not wrong.

spnracing

1,558 posts

302 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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I'm in the middle of trying to buy one of thse things and the naming convention is a complete nightmare - it also seems different on imports.

The new ones seem to be called a GT TDi PD - and are badged GTi. The number of red letters (opposed to silver) in the name badge indicate the power - 130BHP is silver G and T, red i. 150 BHP is red T and i.

Look in Parkers and you'll see all the different models of Golf TDi, they are so confusing....

gtir

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24,741 posts

297 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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g4ry13 said: In fact it's called the Golf GTi TDI PD if i'm not wrong.

Now you couldnt have that written on the back of your hand!

alfa dave

967 posts

315 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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In their defence I think that VW (or at least their ad agency) put out the best car ad's at the moment. Compare them to the tw@t asking the dog questions on the lame Citreon ads...

Still like the Alfa Romeo poster ad with the tag line beneath the car "Italian children don't grow up wanting to be train drivers" or something like that..

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RedTeg

2,209 posts

312 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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The scene that annoys me in that ad most is the woman writing diesel in the dirt on the car door. Just upsets me to see paint work abused like that.

robkola

1,589 posts

295 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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I rate the Audi "Fish" advert . . . Looks like Sheffield hen parties on the loose!

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SGirl

7,924 posts

292 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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alfa dave said: Compare them to the tw@t asking the dog questions on the lame Citreon ads...

...or the smug twerp making squealy noises for that "real driving experience" as he goes barrelling down twisty mountain roads! Haven't seen that one for a few weeks though, hope it's been consigned to the archives, never to return.

jvaughan

6,025 posts

314 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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robkola said: I rate the Audi "Fish" advert . . . Looks like Sheffield hen parties on the loose!

>> Edited by robkola on Thursday 3rd April 11:42


Thing that pisses me off about that adver is its filmed around Waterloo Station ... the audi clearly drives the wrong way up a one way street ( in real life anyway ) for the advert, the signs are removed.

Feckin awful advert

Rotaree

1,241 posts

292 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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I used to like the Alfa billboard posters years ago - 'Torque of the Devil'

pdv6

16,442 posts

292 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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spnracing said:The number of red letters (opposed to silver) in the name badge indicate the power - 130BHP is silver G and T, red i. 150 BHP is red T and i.

All very confusing!

I knew that a red 'i' usually indicated the presence of a turbo, but didn't realise it went further than that...

Mind you, there's always exceptions to the rule; a mate of mine has a petrol GTi turbo with a silver 'i'

pdv6

16,442 posts

292 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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Personal favourite:

Alfa GTV with "don't you wish you'd tried harder at school?" underneath.

spandexx

944 posts

307 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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My Best mate used to be a salesman at the VAG garage in Macclesfield. The GTi badge for the new Golf is only put on the cars when it is ready for delivery so the customer can choose to have it 'debadged' or not. The stickers are usually put on by the salesmen.
My friend, the day before he left, put GiT on a number of Golfs. I wonder if anyone noticed.

robkola

1,589 posts

295 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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And I thought the pedestrians were fleeing the large fish!




... the audi clearly drives the wrong way up a one way street ( in real life anyway ) for the advert, the signs are removed.




superlightr

12,920 posts

294 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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SGirl said: .

...or the smug twerp making squealy noises for that "real driving experience" as he goes barrelling down twisty mountain roads! Haven't seen that one for a few weeks though, hope it's been consigned to the archives, never to return.



That one gets me as well. What a tw@t !. The smile on his face.... grrrrrrrr let me punch it

Mr E

23,097 posts

290 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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alfa dave said:

Still like the Alfa Romeo poster ad with the tag line beneath the car "Italian children don't grow up wanting to be train drivers" or something like that..




I think it was for a Fiat Coupe Turbo......

Good ad.

alfa dave

967 posts

315 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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You may be right. My memory, like my cars, is rusty.

ultimapaul

3,949 posts

295 months

Thursday 3rd April 2003
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pdv6 said:

spnracing said:The number of red letters (opposed to silver) in the name badge indicate the power - 130BHP is silver G and T, red i. 150 BHP is red T and i.

All very confusing!

I knew that a red 'i' usually indicated the presence of a turbo, but didn't realise it went further than that...

Mind you, there's always exceptions to the rule; a mate of mine has a petrol GTi turbo with a silver 'i'






How bloody sad is this then?

IIRC .....
TDI no red = 90bhp model
TDI red I = 110bhp model
TDI red D&I = 130bhp model
TDI red T,D&I = 150bhp model. (now also badged GTI, hence the car in the ad having GTI on it's arse)


Not sure how it works, but with the petrol GTI, the red I means the 150bhp engine from the Audi stable and the non red I is the old 2.0l VW engine ...... or something like that. It does have a meaning though the red I.

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