Aston Martin Just Created The Greatest Ad of All time| Grassroots Motorsports forum |

cutter67 HalfDork
3/19/13 3:30 p.m.

not a lot needs said does it

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Type Q Dork
3/19/13 3:38 p.m.

I am waiting to see who yells "Repost" first. I don't count because I am too lazy to find the last thread with this. It has the BMW ad with same theme.

Keith Tanner MegaDork
3/19/13 3:41 p.m.

It's been around a long time.

moparman76_69 HalfDork
3/19/13 3:42 p.m.

A pre owed Aston? That mean someone else gave up on paying for it once before?

Beer Baron PowerDork
3/19/13 3:47 p.m.

moparman76_69 wrote: A pre owed Aston? That mean someone else gave up on paying for it once before?

So it's a trophy wife?

oldeskewltoy Dork
3/19/13 4:03 p.m.

first I've seen them...I assume magazine ads?? i've managed to avoid magazines for nearly 20 years now....

ransom UltraDork
3/19/13 4:14 p.m.

I'm pretty sure those are just Photoshop silliness.

For brands whose marketing departments spend a lot of time buffing their aura of class, that sort of thing would be inconceivable.

OTOH, Reebok [EDIT: I mistakenly said "Brooks" initially] once marketed a women's running shoe called the Incubus, so maybe this isn't a mistake beyond their ability to make it.

Feedyurhed Dork
3/19/13 6:24 p.m.

First, last or in between. Me likey.

alex UltraDork
3/19/13 6:28 p.m.

Yeah, I think the Aston ad is just a Shopped-together ripoff of the older BMW ad Keith posted.

Will Dork
3/19/13 8:54 p.m.

I call shenanigans. I want the title and date of a publication in which this ad ran, and the name of the agency that created the work.

cutter67 HalfDork
3/19/13 9:13 p.m.

If anyone really thought this ad was real i got a 2001 aston for sale for $2013.00 just send money and shipping is included

amg_rx7 Dork
3/19/13 9:16 p.m.

Where's the ad? I got distracted by the hotties.

Keith Tanner MegaDork
3/19/13 9:19 p.m.

It's funny, I've always seen the BMW one with just the single line. But apparently along the lines somewhere, some weenie thought it was more clever to add "but do you really care"? It wasn't, but it's amusing that the guy who put together the Aston version simply lifted it word for word.

The BMW one always has the bmw.gr domain on it. Did it run in Greece? Probably not. But between the artwork (suggestive but not semi-pornographic), the lighter touch on the copy and the time it's been floating around, I'd believe that it was originally created by an agency. Maybe not ever USED, but created.

Travis_K UltraDork
3/19/13 9:44 p.m.

The Aston Martin one is for sure fake, the BMW one might have been real though.

irish44j UltraDork
3/19/13 9:45 p.m.

A few years back went to dinner with my wife, her friend, and her friend's fiance'.

When we got there, noticed her friend and him came in a late-model 911. I commented that I liked the car. He said "thanks, I'm thinking of trading it in though." I asked what for? "For an Aston Martin."

After seeing the "whoa" look on my face, he said "oh, no...no....haha. I'm going to get a USED one."

oh, well in that case.....

bgkast Reader
3/20/13 12:04 a.m.

giggity

neckromacr Reader
3/20/13 12:39 a.m.

This analogy is all wrong, if it were true you'd have to be real gentle on cars when they were new, once they're broken in you can start getting more wild, and as long as you keep them tuned up they only get better with mileage, but once they hit a certain age you keep them around more for sentimental reasons rather than initial wow factor, then new models start looking real good...

...wait a minute...