All these radio commercials tell me is that new Honda buyers are personality-less, obsessive and indecisive drones with no taste, common sense, enthusiasm or passion. Add that dead, emotionless wishy washy whining to an expenditure of this size and that these husks are blatting out their stories to complete strangers who clearly don't care, and these commercials are supposed to make want to drop thirty grand on one of whatever these things are these automatons are describing?
Who approves these ads?
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PowerDork
4/21/13 7:36 p.m.
Not me, I think they're really annoying too.
They're geared towards people who think that buying a Camry, Civic, Accord or Corolla, is a good financial decision.
It requires no thought and no other brand consideration because they are "good reliable cars according to Consumer Reports." Nevermind that they are bland, beige, soulless, fun sucking vampires whose only appeal is that it is a car with a good reliability ratings beyond the time that most people keep them for.
People like this are the reason we need 2002s and twin turbo rotaries (or anything wired by British Leyland) just to offset the status quo.
You can probably deduce how I feel about those commercials and the "grounded to the ground" Toyota commercials based off this.
In reply to Lugnut: Although I bitterly disagree with most of what they have to say, consumer reports is exactly what they advertise, reports for the consumer; not the enthusiast nor people who really give a E36 M3. I would like to see an "Enthusiast's report" which would play a similair role to CR, but would be run by enthusiasts from their prospective fields. GRM would run the cars section (and maybe cameras, maybe), a few hard core gamers could run the computers section and Bobby Flay could run the section with all the cooking and food stuff.
The "grounded to the ground" is one of my all time favorites. You know what they say, if you have a fault, advertise it. Toyota also advertised the "sleekness of the (Toyota Camry's) body". What?
'Grounded to the ground' made me grit my teeth, I wanted to shake that chick and her nebbish husband till their teeth clicked. But as someone who deals with new car buyers on a daily basis: Honda and Toyota have hit their target demographic dead square center with those ads. And those folks buy easily 80% of all new cars.
Thank them, they make the limited production stuff and all those racing programs possible. 
But I DO like the rims and the fact that its really grounded to the ground.
(First time I heard that, I thought my head was going to explode.)
Haven't heard those- but I do so loathe the stupid "Look at that new Toyota" commercials...
Mmadness wrote:
I would like to see an "Enthusiast's report" which would play a similair role to CR, but would be run by enthusiasts from their prospective fields. GRM would run the cars section
We already do, just post a "What Car?" thread with your requirements. There is some bias by certain "experts" towards certain cars, but usually you get good advice.
I and many others have said it before, and I'll say it again, most people will buy whatever the advertizements tell them, because they really don't care.
Which begs the question, why not cater to the whiners(the enthusiasts)?
Zombie thread. Canoe deleted.
Canoe or not, they haven't improved. First the bitch was a Honda driver bumping into other Honda drivers in the parking lot, not she is running the berkeleying Honda Compliment Line.
