Nissan Qashqai "Urban Skateboarding" TV-Ad

While not as radical as the Qashqai online skateboard commercials, but definitely more politically correct, Nissan takes upon urban-skateboarding once again to show off its compact crossover. By the way, is it me or is Nissan’s new TV Add suspiciously reminiscent of Jeep’s Compass Urban Playground ad? Yay for creativity!

Via: Motorpasion

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2008 Audi S3 Spanish TV-Spot

This is a new TV-spot for the 2008 Audi S3 that aired in Spain. Aided by a couple of drum-sticks stuck on its wheels, an S3 plays “bottle music” in the centre of the city. Not exactly the “thrill-me” commercial one would expect from a 265Hp GTi. Via: Autoblog.it

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Super Bowl ads: 2008 Ford F-Series Super Duty & 2008 Dodge Ram

We can’t say that we really liked any of the car related ads of this year’s Super Bowl. Take Dodge’s “Ring” add featuring the 2008 Ram going in the ring with a robot or Ford’s pseudo-techy commercial with the F-Series Super Duty for example. Both of them are so “original” if you changed roles placing the F-Series in the ring and vice-versa, no one would blink an eye. -Continued: Click “Read More…” below to see the Ford F-Series TV Ad

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Super Bowl XLI - Chevy’s Ads

I don’t know about you but we kinda find both these commercials, well, put it this way, totally lame… The first one you see above is called “Car Wash” and it was actually created by a student named Katelyn Crabb who won a contest organized by GM which involved video entries submitted by 820 teams from 230 schools. The second video, dubbed “Ain’t we got love” features a pack of stars who sing their love for Chevy products. Go figure… - Continued: Click “Read More…” below to see the second vid and GM's press-release -Via: Autoblog.com

GM PRESS RELEASE– During Super Bowl XLI, Chevrolet debuted the winning ad from the Chevy Super Bowl College Ad Challenge on network television. The ad was the original concept of Katelyn (Katie) Crabb of North Prairie, WI. Chevy was the first to announce their competition last fall for a consumer-generated ad for the Super Bowl. The competition focused on college students and asked that their ad concept focus on one of Chevy’s cars and crossovers targeted to the youth market, the Aveo, Cobalt, HHR, or Equinox. The winning ad concept was selected after students from across the country submitted their ideas to Chevrolet last fall.

“Chevy wanted to learn what resonates with the younger buyer, and this competition gave us an opportunity to do that. We were able to engage in creative dialogue with them about our brand and teach them about the real-world of advertising. The resulting ad is so much fun!” said Kim Kosak, Chevrolet General Director, Chevrolet Advertising and Sales Promotion.

“It was great to have this opportunity. I was so excited that I got to be on the set when the ad for the HHR was filmed – the car and the set were really cool,” said Katie Crabb – winner of the ad challenge. "I really enjoyed it all - meeting the other finalists, learning about the production process from Chevy - from music selection to editing – it was all fascinating. And now to see the final ad on TV – it’s been an amazing experience,” she said.

The 30 second spot was directed by Bryan Buckley, of Hungry Man Productions, and was produced by Chevrolet and Campbell-Ewald, their lead advertising agency.

Katie came up with the idea for the ad as part of a class project through University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her faculty advisor, Jessica McBride notified Katie that she was a finalist and would be going to Detroit for an all-expense paid trip in late October. During the trip, Katie was able to learn and experience first hand the advertising world. She and the other four finalist teams spent time learning about the cars and crossovers, and refining their concepts, before presenting them to the executives from Chevrolet and Campbell-Ewald.

“Chevrolet is thrilled we were able to help students realize their dreams of participating in real-world advertising. It was great to work with Katie on this ad. Katie’s a smart girl; she understood the importance of the idea and ran with it. She made a great presentation to us in Detroit. And everyone at Chevy has really enjoyed working with Katie on this commercial. We commend all of the students on their creative ideas, and thank them for participating,” said Kosak.

Chevy continued to engage students throughout the process, posting interviews with students about the ad challenge, supplemental materials from students and other information on the www.chevycollegead.com website. In January, www.cbs.com/chevy started running reality webisodes about the five finalist teams, and CBS The Early Show showed video mockups for a number of ad concepts that were submitted. Katie was named as the winner during CBS’ “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2007” on Friday, February 2, 2007.

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Jeep Compass "Urban-Playground" Commercial

As the new Compass “blasts” into town, heaps of trash including, rubbish-bins, bicycles, chairs and I don’t know what else, form up a Transformer-like being, which starts to chase the Jeep. In the end, “Rubishoid” finally catches up with the playful Jeep and uses it as skateboard. Ha, at least someone found something useful to do with the Compass!

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2007 BMW X5 Nurburgring TV Add & BMW Nurburgring Mini-Documentary

While we’re not exactly stunned with BMW’s new 2007 X5 TV add (above) that features the Bavarian SUV or SAV (...) doing a couple of laps on the Nurburgring race track then stopping and letting out seven people –yeah we get the point, we're obliged to give BMW a thumb up for the 6 ½ minute long Nurburgring Documentary that accompanied the Add on their official site.

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Seat cures its "Oral Fixation" by sponsoring Shakira’s 2007 Euro Tour

Shakira, one of the most recognized music artists, has chosen SEAT automotive as the main sponsor of her 2007 European Tour which begins on January 25th and ends on March 18th. SEAT is now getting ready to launch a major European-wide advertising campaign benefiting from this partnership. The main elements of the campaign will be seen as of mid January. But for those countries that are “SEAT deprived” we bring you auto emocion at its finest…..with a hot chick driving it. Posted by Dani

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Pic of the Day: Scaredy cat…

Ha, ha, ha! This must be one of the funniest and straight to the point ads I’ve ever seen! via: Motorpasion

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Un-pimp my Ride aftermath: Kinky Helga “schlaloms” in a VW GTI

Remember those catchy VW GTI “Un-pimp My Ride” commercials? Well, we stumbled across this “new to us” video of that hot German maid named Helga taking us through a slalom course with "Helga dummies" instead of cones. Better watch your “schlalom” cause that S&M vixen seems ready to spank your azzz if you knock over one of her statues or drop below 120 Mph. Woof-woof!

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