Car commercials are driving e crazy

I can't stand the way car commercials are going these days. Especially the ones that tout safety features like lane departure warning systems, that show people not paying attention and drifting into the oncoming lane, only to be saved by their cars, or failing to look around before they back up. Really lowest common denominator stuff. It's like we have completely given up on the basics of good driving.

But what I really can't stand is that clown on the Chevy commercials who shows up every commercial break during football games, dropping toolboxes or rocks into truck beds, asking people to respond "only in emojis," etc. He is uniquely irritating.

OK, I'm calm now.

Terry

You're not the only one. I take it as go ahead and text, our cars will save your dumb ass.

I don't blame commercials. I blame the idiots that make them viable.

Those ones definitely annoy me, but few things topped the Subaru radio commercial from a few years ago that was basically saying "AWD means snow tires are obsolete and you shouldn't have them"

The Chevy commercials are the dumbest. In the tool box commercial, they don't show a close up of what the tool box did to the Chevy, just the Ford.

Ford's matchmaker commercials are silly.

Ads are a fantasy world in which contrived drama is used to invent a situation for which they offer "solutions." Don't drink the Kool Aid... or Ad...

We cut the cord in 2001 and don't miss it - at all.

Mercedes started this trend some time back. I remember maiking a comment about it then. It's nodifferent today, only more companies offering cars that "save" their idiotic, inattentive drivers.

rslifkin wrote: Those ones definitely annoy me, but few things topped the Subaru radio commercial from a few years ago that was basically saying "AWD means snow tires are obsolete and you shouldn't have them"

If you know how to handle a car in the snow you don't NEED snow tires. 16yrs of driving, never needed them. And I've driven an over powered Camaro in blizzards.

Winter tires have assisted me in AVOIDING people sliding out of control several times. With winter lasting 5 months, hard pack snow/icy conditions are always problems on secondary roads and black ice at controlled intersections w/temps below 10 degrees for weeks. People already think ABS means the "Trunk Monkey" is going to jump out with a big hook to stop them. I want to be able to accelerate, turn and stop fast enough to avoid inexperienced/distracted drivers with crap tires. Amazing how many 4x4/AWD vehicles I see with tires less than 4/32 of tread left. Snow showers predicted for Thursday over night.

Seems like we get one of these threads every couple of weeks nowadays. I blame Chevy, their truck ads are the height of dumb.

I used to think that only showing the safety features was the worst thing about car ads, then I thought that semi-autonomous driving features saving hilariously inattentive drivers was the worst thing about car ads, but right now I think the borderline testosterone-poisoned pickup truck ads are the worst thing about car ads.

I strongly recommend turning off the TV, or ditch the networks and cable. I haven't had a commercial irritate me in 4 years.

Much better to turn off the TV. That being said, I'm sure the human race is getting less independent, less capable, more unable to do for ones' self, think for ones' self etc. <(not sure if my grammar is spot on there)

Current ads are trying to convince the world that married, adult white men seem like the biggest boobs on the planet. But that's a rant for another day.

The ads prove this. Consumers consume and manufacturers manufacture in an interdependent relationship. "We" eat this E36 M3 up.

I'm 46 and I think I'll be dead at about the right time (before I'm completely ashamed of what we've become).

I agree with the OP but I like the latest Josh Brolin Volvo commercials. Am I weird????

The Chevy commercials with the "real people" being so impressed by all the "awards" that Chevy has won are the worst.

For all the awards Chevrolet has won, they're STILL not grounded to the ground.

Toyman01 wrote: I strongly recommend turning off the TV, or ditch the networks and cable. I haven't had a commercial irritate me in 4 years.

I have not watched a regular Sitcom since 2006. I watch the occasional auto race or football game, that is about it.

drdisque wrote: The Chevy commercials with the "real people" being so impressed by all the "awards" that Chevy has won are the worst.

They are not very persuasive IMHO. But then again the general is still trying to overcome negative image issues. My wife's work place is full of GM haters. Rabid, rabid GM haters. And I know a lot of other people who pretty much think of GM as the automotive anti Christ.

ebonyandivory wrote: Much better to turn off the TV. That being said, I'm sure the human race is getting less independent, less capable, more unable to do for ones' self, think for ones' self etc. <(not sure if my grammar is spot on there) Current ads are trying to convince the world that married, adult white men seem like the biggest boobs on the planet. But that's a rant for another day. The ads prove this. Consumers consume and manufacturers manufacture in an interdependent relationship. "We" eat this E36 M3 up. I'm 46 and I think I'll be dead at about the right time (before I'm completely ashamed of what we've become).

A friend of mine is a cultural anthropologist who claims people in primitive cultures are much more intelligent than modern ones, in many ways I tend to agree.

GameboyRMH wrote: Right now I think the borderline testosterone-poisoned pickup truck ads are the worst thing about car ads.

What's really funny about those is that there is a certain series of boner pill ads that are indistinguishable from the truck ads until you get to the logo at the end.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I cancelled cable in 2001.

And now that I have found Pandora and hd radio, I rarely hear a commercial.

I'd recommend it to anyone.

I base all of my car buying decisions on if the car is grounded to the ground or not.

ChrisHachet wrote:

ebonyandivory wrote: Much better to turn off the TV. That being said, I'm sure the human race is getting less independent, less capable, more unable to do for ones' self, think for ones' self etc. <(not sure if my grammar is spot on there) Current ads are trying to convince the world that married, adult white men seem like the biggest boobs on the planet. But that's a rant for another day. The ads prove this. Consumers consume and manufacturers manufacture in an interdependent relationship. "We" eat this E36 M3 up. I'm 46 and I think I'll be dead at about the right time (before I'm completely ashamed of what we've become).

A friend of mine is a cultural anthropologist who claims people in primitive cultures are much more intelligent than modern ones, in many ways I tend to agree.

Their survival depends on it.

ebonyandivory wrote: Current ads are trying to convince the world that married, adult white men seem like the biggest boobs on the planet. But that's a rant for another day.

Bumbling sitcom dads aren't new. They're at least as old as, I would say, Fred Flintstone, but someone older could probably think of examples going further back.

Appleseed wrote: I base all of my car buying decisions on if the car is grounded to the ground or not.

LOL, Say What?