http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCxehjcYwlc If you’ve been a semi-regular viewer of this site for the last couple of years (particularly around Super Bowl time), you’ll know that the brands of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have been on fire with...
Tag Archives: Car Commercials
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zty8zBC5KxM[/youtube] One of the most talked about commercials – cars or otherwise – of this year’s Super Bowl came from Nissan. Aside from really tugging at the heartstrings, the advert also marked the public debut...
If you like your Super Bowls with a little of everything, then yesterday’s Super Bowl XLIX was right in your wheelhouse. But in between plays that made America say “Did that just happen?” and “What...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQvdIGeUUvo&list=UUfRUa1Z5gTknsMMaKLthZIg[/youtube] For a guy that died roughly two-and-a-half millennia ago, Aesop still holds a lot of clout in western civilization. His collection of fables serve up life lessons that are applicable even today, and they...
![BMW Goes on a Morning TV Nostalgia Trip with i3 Super Bowl Ad [w/ Videos]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/bmw_i3_super_bowl_ad-335x256.jpg)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1jwWwJ-Mxc[/youtube] Way back in the early 1990s, when we were eating breakfast on school mornings, our mom often had NBC’s Today show on the tiny CRT television in the kitchen. And even though they were...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTIfjxNHEPw[/youtube] We can all agree that automobiles come from factories, yes? Well what if automobiles were made the same way we humans and other animals were? Hey, don’t accuse us of being pervs; blame Mercedes-Benz...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYifPHX0qh8[/youtube] For an entire generation of gearheads (and quite a few non-gearheads), KITT – the sentient, fully-autonomous black Pontiac Trans Am from the original Knight Rider TV series – is the ultimate car. This is...
![Top 10 Best Car Commercials of Super Bowl 2014 [w/ Videos]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/top_10_superbowl_2014_ads_title-335x256.jpg)
If, like a staggering number of American TV viewers, you witnessed yesterday’s Super Massacre, er, Super Bowl, you probably saw many of the commercials companies concoct for this annual sporting contest. Of course, if you’re...
![Drawn to Nostalgia: Volkswagen Ad Riffs on Iconic a-ha Music Video [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/video_still_168.jpg)
We haven’t taken any classes on marketing, but we’d venture to guess that one of the first things that gets taught in said classes is that appealing to consumers’ sense of nostalgia tends to work...
![Non-Crisis Averted: Whimsical Advert Touts New Audi TDI Diesels [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/video_still_159.jpg)
Back in the highly fuel-economy-conscious late-1970s and early-1980s, with two OPEC embargoes all-too-fresh in the public’s mind, a large percentage of the car manufacturers doing business in the U.S. offered at least one diesel model....