Someone please post links to the Joe Izusu commercials.
Thanks
Someone please post links to the Joe Izusu commercials.
Thanks
Because I can't let this die and thankfully I don't have to watch these commercials on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
In reply to RX Reven':
I despise every actor and actress in those ads. Yes I do know they're acting. When you turn down gap insurance and you know about instant depreciation don't complain. Grrrrr. I will change the channel on those ads and I don't even watch T.V. anymore. Grrrr. 
To be honest ever since those 80s? 90s? ads with the comedian ads have been entertainment for me. If it has cute chicks I pay attention. If it has men spazzing out over emojis (chevy) I puke. 
In reply to Robbie:
And the GE one with the hammer on the coffee table is funny. "You can't lift it can you?"
what if i told you i was behind a cruze and thought it was a malibu at first. and it looked exactly like the accord in front of it, and the camry in front of that, boring as berkeley.
fiesta54 wrote: The progressive ads get me. I can't stand listening to Flo, and somehow that ad campaign has lasted 8 years...
I love the Flo ads. She lives in a complete fantasy world. She's running around totally disconnected from reality and everyone else is just having to deal with it.
Best way to make commercials interesting: take them completely literally. Yes, this cellphone MMO will make little jet fighters fly down your hallway. Yes, cute Italian girls can drive Fiat 500s underwater. Yes, this shaving cream will make floaty bubbles run around your face. Doesn't work with the stupid Chevy ads, that just makes you depressed. But it works with most of the others.
In reply to t25torx:
That's more stupid than the commercials themselves. 
t25torx wrote: I absolutely cannot stand advertisements, because like you stated, they only go after the lowest common denominator. I don't really get the point of advertising actually, I can't think of any ad that has made me stop and think "hey I should buy that, my life just isn't complete without it."
Advertising is meant to get the product out there so people know it exists. If no one knows it exists, no one will buy it. It's pretty damn simple.
I just don't understand that mindset. If there's something I feel I need, I do research on it, look at reviews, ask you guys, that stuff.
Again, you won't research a product if you don't even know it exists. In many, MANY cases, you have to be told it exists before you'll look for reviews, ask questions, etc.
A prime example is the Chevy Volt, both generations. How many Volt ads did you see? Most people don't know it exists, or if they do know it exists, just think it's a short range EV. A good ad explaining what it is would have made the car sell MUCH better. I spent a lot of time talking mine up to people that had no clue what it was, as they never saw an ad for it. Compare that to truck ads that are on all the time and they are the best selling segment of vehicles in the country. Ads are proven to work which is why companies spend so much money on them.
Beer Baron wrote: My theory is that the more a car (...or soda... or beer... or etc.) tries to convince you of something, the more opposite the reality is. Boring appliance? We'll show how exciting it is! Prius? It's the muscle car of rebels!
If you want to know where a company thinks it's weakness is... it's what they play up.
Miller Lite? Tastes GREAT!
Diet Pepsi? More taste than Diet Coke!
Every plastic processed food ever: Tastes Like Mom Used to Make!
In reply to Huckleberry:
You've never had my mom's cooking. I was in high school before I learned spaghetti and sauce didn't always come in the same can.
Huckleberry wrote:Beer Baron wrote: My theory is that the more a car (...or soda... or beer... or etc.) tries to convince you of something, the more opposite the reality is. Boring appliance? We'll show how exciting it is! Prius? It's the muscle car of rebels!If you want to know where a company thinks it's weakness is... it's what they play up. Miller Lite? Tastes GREAT! Diet Pepsi? More taste than Diet Coke! Every plastic processed food ever: Tastes Like Mom Used to Make!
This may be your most logical to the point not tongue in cheek forum post ever, bravo!
They play up the perceived weakness as a strength, or attack the competition with the "don't look at how our DOD 5.3's eat themselves, look at how E36 M3ty the f150's weak aluminum bed is!" tactic. Or the new powerstrokes "Sure your engine will eat itself alive before it's a couple years old but damnit we put you a sweet 820lb ft torque badge on the door!"
Dodge does know how to run a good ad. Richard Rawlings cameos aside, I love most of theirs. The Dodge Brothers, the Revolutionary War bits, burnouts in Challengers, Chargers, and Vipers... all are great.
I just wish Dodge would bring back the Ron Burgundy - Anchorman commercials they used to run for the Durango. Those were hilarious!
Where's Joe Isuzu when you need him?
I know that I may be the only "kinda fan" of GM based on my experience with my 2005 Cobalt base and my 2012 Cruze but I think that I'm justified in saying that my combined maintenance on both cars besides Dexos oil services (after 2007 on the Cobalt) and tires and I had 190k miles between the two of them. Both got steering sector shafts under warranty and the Cruze got a new valve cover at 45k for an emissions leak.
No brake pads, shoes, rotors, drums. I'm yet to install the plugs I bought for the Cruze so I guess those count, it's still knocking down 35 on the highway at 80mph.
Is it a BMW? No. Mercedes? Nope? A $10,000 commuter that bumps E40 or rocks Metallica like a concert venue? Oh yes it is!
My parents' new Suburban is pretty sweet, I admit. Some stunning cheapness still shows through, but its decades ahead of the gmc truck they had 10 years ago. Unfortunately the pricing reflects this advance a bit too optimistically IMO.
QuasiMofo wrote: Blah blah blah "hey watch me stick 4 mounted mustang wheels in a cruze while retaining passenger seat functionality, try that in a miata!"
This is what i heard
In reply to QuasiMofo:
That's why we drive them. I don't think I have a few hundred bucks in Mr's Woof's 06 Cobalt, in 10 years and 200k. I did buy plugs for it, but they're still sitting in the back seat. And what does she say? I love my car. The system sounds great and (it has a really tight turning radius) I can park it anywhere. That's what's important to her.
I bought it one year old at 50 cents on the dollar, and it never breaks. That's what's important to me.
"Oh wait, did I say there was one special edition? Because there are SEVEN special editions!" (Accomapanied by the sound of chains clanking and doors opening as six more special editions enter through the walls floor and from the ceiling)
"No way" "Wow" "Cool"
I put no credence into commercials, maybe one in one hundred provides any interest at all, other than that they are just filler to me. In my opinion commercials are made for the GDP (General Dumb Public) and that's what they get, maybe deserve. GM particularly has had their share of bad commercials that I had to think some brass on the 14th floor gave an in to a relative in the marketing contracts.
Haha this is the best one
In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:
I wasn't paying attention to what youtube was playing the one day and started hearing that voice, cringed, then went "Wait, what the berk?" and switched tabs and started watching. To say I am excited for the Lego Batman movie is an understatement,
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xTfS0nAgfuE
Moar bashing of the ads.
collinskl1 wrote: Dodge does know how to run a good ad. Richard Rawlings cameos aside, I love most of theirs. The Dodge Brothers, the Revolutionary War bits, burnouts in Challengers, Chargers, and Vipers... all are great. I just wish Dodge would bring back the Ron Burgundy - Anchorman commercials they used to run for the Durango. Those were hilarious!
^ all of this. Dodge had it right
Why are you guys watching TV commercials, don't have DVR?
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