Sunday Ads: Toyota’s Rav 4 will destroy your marriage (and more)
digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/05/18/sunday-ads-skoda-cakesunday-ads-skoda-cake/'; If you’re considering buying a Rav 4, careful: it might be the end of your marriage. As this ad shows, it’s such a good car, you and your spouse will fight over it. But not just verbally. You will actually booby trap your house, and might even blow up your significant other with it. Consider yourself warned. Read More
Sunday Ads: a Skoda made out of cakes!
digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/05/18/sunday-ads-skoda-cakesunday-ads-skoda-cake/'; Skodas have long suffered a bad reputation, but ever since the brand has been bought by VW, things are looking up. The Fabia is one of the best sellers and gets good commercials on TV, like this one, were a dozen cooks makes it look very yummy. Makes us wonder who got to eat it! Read More
Sunday Ads: Mercedes E-class is good for cheaters
Mercedes isn’t known for its hilarious ad campaigns. The German car manufacturer communicates typically the luxury and safety of its vehicles. In this ad, based on the fact that without a Mercedes E-class no one would be able to get anywhere in the snow, it helps people cheating on each other.. with a twist. Nice! That’s pretty far from the brand’s conservative image. Read More
Our Iron Man coverage
To help you find the Iron Man article you’re looking for, we’ve made this little list. Hope it helps! Iron Man gallery Iron Man 2 already officially announced for 2010! Iron Man first review: “Supercharged” Sunday Ads: Iron Man game trailer Iron Man Trailer To Be Made Into Feature Film New Iron Man TV spot Audi R8 Iron Man Limited Edition On our watch list: Iron Man (2008) Read More
Sunday Ads: a bit of physics with the Accord
digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/05/04/sunday-ads-a-bit-of-physics-with-the-accord/'; “Isn’t it nice when things just… work?” Remember playing with gears and pulleys, for example with your Legos, when you were a kid? Yeah? Then you’re going to like this amazing ad, which was made to promote the Honda Accord back in 2006. Using only parts from the car itself, they put together an incredibly complex mechanism (a.k.a a Rube Goldberg machine)... Read More
Sunday Ads: Iron Man game trailer
The Iron Man video game will soon be in store, and Sega has rolled out some commercials on TV. Here’s the video! Read More
Sunday Ads: Audi “Keychains” commercial
digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/04/20/sunday-ads-audi-keychains-commercial/'; Updated: now with the video! (oops…) A really good and funny take on the Audi logo! It’s interesting also to see what the brand recognized as the key (no pun intended) feature behind each of its competitor: Alfa= Design, Mercedes= Comfort, Volvo= Security, BMW= Sportness Watch the clip after the jump. Read More Read More
Sunday Ads: Cadbury “Airport trucks racing”
digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL'; Okay. We already shared some ads with you guys this week: the Hoff and Heidi Klum for Volkswagen, and the newest Iron Man TV spot. Now we’d like to share this Cadbury ad we first saw on Autoblog. We called it “Airport trucks racing” because it describes it perfectly. Not a single piece of chocolate during the whole video, but awesomely customized airport vehicles laying some rubber down (better than KITT My Ride? One of Queen’s... Read More
Sunday Ads: The Italian Job remix for the Fiat Grande Punto
digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL'; The Italian Job (1966) is one of the best car movie ever made, with three Minis (blue, white and red, the colors of the British flag) storming though the streets of Turin, to accomplish the heist planned by Michael Caine (recently seen as Alfred in Batman Beggins and in the upcoming Dark Knight). It was remade in 2003 with the new Mini, but with not much success. To promote its new Grande Punto, the Italian car maker Fiat recently came up with a new... Read More
Sunday Ads: 2008 Challenger in Vanishing Point
digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/03/30/sunday-ads-2008-challenger-in-vanishing-point/'; When the new Challenger came out, an idea immediatly sprung in the gasoline-filled brain of many car guys: what about a new Vanishing Point remake? Something to fear, or something to look forward to? There was the very forgetable TV remake of 1997, with… Viggo Mortensen as Kowalski, and an original white Challenger, but a real attempt hasn’t been done yet. With the... Read More
