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Old 17-04-2007, 01:56 PM   #1
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What good car (TV) ads do you remember?

I just got reminded of the old "Football,meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars " ad. That was a classic. Can't remember any classic Ford ones though. I remember another tongue in cheek ad from the late 70s where the narrator was using all the old used car lingo like "one elderly lady owner" (showed guys hooning at the beach in the car) and "bank manager owned it" (showed car being used in a holdup) don't remember who had that one.

Norman Yem (Aussie actor from Division 4 etc) did some ads for Toyota work utes and there was a sendup one he did which did the rounds on the big screens at the pubs years later, it was very funny.

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Old 17-04-2007, 01:59 PM   #2
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i like that ad from nissan (i think) where all the people in the town have this big grin plastered on their faces from the power, anyone remeber it? it was a couple of years ago now
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Old 17-04-2007, 02:00 PM   #3
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Australia doesnt have good car ads, period.
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Old 17-04-2007, 02:07 PM   #4
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If I hear the Holdon "Can't get enough of it" jingle one more time I'm going to snap and go down the holdon dealer and kick someone in the balls :jab:
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Old 17-04-2007, 02:08 PM   #5
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Toyota Hilux's bugger add until the do-gooders pulled it off air. It was filmed in NZ, its probably still on youtube.

Mitsubishi had a good one back when they introduced the Magna VRX, racing a bullet down a path as the bullet goes through laval lamps etc, titled Magna VRX - it'll go like a shot.
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Old 17-04-2007, 02:09 PM   #6
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If I hear the Holdon "Can't get enough of it" jingle one more time I'm going to snap and go down the holdon dealer and kick someone in the balls :jab:
Thats the ford jingle for the BA!!!!! - new order's slow jam, and the lyric is "Cant get enough of this"
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Old 17-04-2007, 02:12 PM   #7
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Honda Accord add was the best ive ever seen! The one where the parts of the car do their functions in a line.
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Old 17-04-2007, 02:12 PM   #8
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Thats the ford jingle for the BA!!!!! - new order's slow jam, and the lyric is "Cant get enough of this"
LOL was wondering how long it would take someone to pickup on that little mistake ;)

But seriously, I do hate the Holden one and am tempted to do what I said. Holden need to start issuing boxes to their staff if they want to keep running their stupid "REAADDDY TO GOOOOOOOO*" *make sure you sound like a retard on valium when singing it!*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_to_Go <--- All the info you need on their stupid song.
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Old 17-04-2007, 03:18 PM   #9
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I rekon the one for the old XY GT coming over the hill and changing into the new GT is good but should of kept the XY in the shot longer seeing it looks alot better than a BA-BF GT does
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Old 17-04-2007, 05:09 PM   #10
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I rekon the one for the old XY GT coming over the hill and changing into the new GT is good but should of kept the XY in the shot longer seeing it looks alot better than a BA-BF GT does
Yeah I don't think ford was trying to sell the XY, hence the short time it appeared in the add!
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Old 17-04-2007, 05:18 PM   #11
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Any of the adds that have been banned are usually pretty good. The "Bugger" add probably my favorite. I even liked the Hyundai add that was banned recently with the toddler driving who picks up a hitch hiking girl toddler on the way to the beach before cutting up some knarly stuff in the surf on his mini mal.
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Old 17-04-2007, 06:13 PM   #12
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Toyota Hilux's bugger add until the do-gooders pulled it off air. It was filmed in NZ, its probably still on youtube.
And the cows one as well ... fantastic.

Also like the Honda Accord Euro ads as well ... well done.
Also the UK Honda Civic commercial with the orchestra/sound effects was well done as well.
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Old 17-04-2007, 06:30 PM   #13
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Yeah I don't think ford was trying to sell the XY, hence the short time it appeared in the add!
Yeah but if they were selling XY's????
Imagine if they could rerun the old XY's again, they'd have no trouble selling them, classic lines.
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Old 17-04-2007, 09:02 PM   #14
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Plenty here if anybody is interested.

http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au...ord_falcon.htm
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Old 17-04-2007, 11:43 PM   #15
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the ferrari / shell ad which i posted a little while ago
and the nissan 350z promo video called 'the run'
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Old 17-04-2007, 11:48 PM   #16
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The XC ad where they used the race drivers as witches hats for a slalom.
Or the F Truck ad with a Land Cruiser on the back of it.
Even the later Effie ad where one pulls a semi out of a water hole.
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Old 17-04-2007, 11:53 PM   #17
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All old farts out there will remember the 1978 XC Falcon ad, with Fred Gibson driving at 92 kph, zig zaging through Murry Carter, Ron Dickson, Dick Johnson, John Goss, Colin Bond and Allan Moffat. A VERY impressive ad for the day and just wouldn't be done today.
The ad came about to retaliate against the "new" R.T.S on HZ Holdens. They used witches hats to weave through, instead of their top line touring car drivers.

Could be on You Tube still now.


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Old 18-04-2007, 12:10 AM   #18
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I just got reminded of the old "Football,meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars " ad. That was a classic.
And that is where the greatest lie I've ever known was started.

It might have been relevant back then, but since Holden's flagship, The Commodore began selling back in 1978, the car has been European.

Ford HAS been the Australian made car since 1972.

I will say that Ford's commercials in the past years have been crappo. Using crappy jingles only turns me off. Imagine what it does to somebody impartial?

I liked the slalom commercial. I also liked the XE Falcon commercial. It had semi-computerised graphics that looked cool, and that deep, semi-echo voice certainly makes me wish that XEs were on sale still.

I also liked the "bugger" commercial for the Hilux. People who complained about that commercial should stop wasting their time complaining and find something worthwhile to do with their time, such as finding a way to not complain. I am complaining now. I will now use my time better and go away.
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Old 18-04-2007, 01:02 AM   #19
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I liked the TAC ad where one car has abs and doesn't hit the back of the truck, and the another car ,going 5 kph faster, locks up all 4 and smacks the back of the truck. I think they were falcons. Good ad for ABS.

Wonder what would happen if they locked the wheels on the car going 5kph slower and used abs on the car going faster....
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Old 18-04-2007, 01:13 AM   #20
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I liked the TAC ad
I liked the pedestrian TAC commercial where a man is carrying a pizza and he steps onto the road. Out of nowhere, a white VN ploughs into him and his pizza goes flying. The body hits the windscreen and flies off the car.

A trauma expert (some doctor) talks about what happens to the body, explaining that as the car its the legs, they are smashed nicely and when the car hits the windscreen then the road, the brain is turned into pulp.

That commercial was awesome. Shat myself at first. My undies needed a good scrubbin'. But once I got used to it, I found it quite comical.
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Old 19-04-2007, 12:21 AM   #21
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havnt been around longer enough to have seen em all, ill watch the classics now. but no doubt the performance car ads in the US are the only good modern ones lately.
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Old 19-04-2007, 12:38 AM   #22
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The Turbo Territory ad where it eats all the sports cars

The Carlton Draught ad "it's a big ad, it's bloody big"

And the Hilux, unbreakable ones.

Cant remember anything older i dont watch much TV
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The Honda ad and the original Bugger ad.
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FUny thing is that "football meat pies" etc jingle. was written in USA for chevrolet, baseball, apple pies ... chevrolet, and was also used in south africa and a few otehr counties.

So that ad was as australian as that car company. and the aussies swallowed it whole.
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Old 19-04-2007, 02:21 AM   #25
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[QUOTE=351hardtop]What good car (TV) ads do you remember?

I just got reminded of the old "Football,meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars " ad. That was a classic.



There was another version of that that went;

"Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet,
They Go Together in the Good ‘Ole USA…"
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FUny thing is that "football meat pies" etc jingle. was written in USA for chevrolet, baseball, apple pies ... chevrolet, and was also used in south africa and a few otehr counties.

So that ad was as australian as that car company. and the aussies swallowed it whole.



My thoughts exactly...
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I just watched that XC commercial from post #14. I assume that wasnt really them standing there like cones??
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Old 19-04-2007, 06:22 AM   #28
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Funny how it is now basically illegal to show a car turning a corner at more than 60km/h but, my kids can watch things like a guy somersaulting over a fence and jumping over a railing down an embankment to get a Maccas breakie or a girl diving out of a window and into a dress to land in the back of a convertible with her mates.

I don't remember seeing any automotive ads which should have been banned, including the toddler picking up his girlfriend in Mum's Santa Fe.
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The Holden thunderstruck add with the SS ute cutting hoops was one of my best.
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The Citroen adds with the transformer style CGI work are good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIx-Hyx0hw

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