It’s a
Michael Bay kind of Sunday today, with commercials shot by Hollywood’s explosion specialist (and we’re not talking about Transformers, just real TV commercials). We’ll show you a little retrospective of his TV ads and movie career
We started with Car Carrier, the [...]

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digg_url = ‘http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/03/14/play-spy-hunter-with-the-new-pontiac-g8-gt/’;We absolutely LOVE the new Pontiac G8 commercial. So much, we couldn’t wait for our next Sunday Ads to share it with you (by the way, next Sunday Ads will focus on Michael Bay). Inspired by the 80’s video game
Spy [...]

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In a week Kathy Griffin will be hosting
World’s Funniest Commercials: Hilarious Liaisons on TBS, and we’re guessing that they chose to air that on a Sunday because they wanted to compete with our crowd-favourite Sunday Ads section. All we can [...]

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Murilee Martin from Jalopnik published an
article last week about the extremely 80’s commercial for the Plymouth Duster and, while we usually find the ads we present here ourselves, it’s so amazing we thought you had to see it.
It was aired apparently [...]

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In 1982, Namco released Pole Position, it’s famous racing simulation (yes, it was considered a simulation at that time…). The game was available on all Atari game systems and the brand was taking care of the promotion. They came up with [...]

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Today being the day of the premiere of the new Knight Rider, this commercial using another big show of the 80’s is particularly appropriate. The Fall Guy was hugely popular in Germany and Germans were almost as fans of Lee Majors [...]

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As you can tell, today is Pontiac day, with two commercials relying on recent movies. The first one was linked to Transformers, with Megan Fox (read our previous article:
Megan Fox hearts Pontiac), while the second one, entirely in black and [...]

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Before Transformers hit the screens last year, GM was already capitalizing on its product placement in the summer blockbuster to boost its sales with several [...]

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digg_url = ‘http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/02/09/kitt-is-back-the-newest-nbc-commercial/’;Only a week away from the 2 hours pilot of the new Knight Rider, the marketing is getting more and more aggressive and NBC airing new commercials.
Here, Justin Bruening (as Mike Tracer) is being explained that the Foundation is back and [...]

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“Curb the bullet”
It was during the Super Bowl that an upcoming movie caught our attention. Not because of Angelina Jolie, but because it looks promising for car scenes with some unique interaction of the characters vehicles: pay attention to the [...]

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