Hilarious!
This is still my favourite -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fXV6KzhBbM
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My favourite was the VW Polo 'small but tough' viral ad featuring a suicide bomber. The car contains and muffles the explosion. Not even the windows break. Heartless and funny.
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Down in the mouth Perro? The ad is bit cold-hearted towards suicide bombers you mean?
They are to be pitied of course but even more to be feared, hated and despised, along with those who run them and encourage the intellectual climate that produces them, for their murderous arrogance and simple-mindedness. They think they are our enemies but really they are everyone's.
Thanks for posting the link. Always makes me giggle.
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There is no need to be an apologist for this, its Funny!
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Actually I had one of those MG Maestros ( a white one with red seatbelts, sexy eh?! ) as a company car for a few months after my Cortina 2.0S got buried under a hotel ( long story ) Went like stink, handled well enough too and never let me down but then like I say, I didn't have it for very long. The Golf GTi which replaced it was a much nicer thing mind although it possibly wasn't as quick.
The Maestro was an ugly brute from any angle. Used to scold me too. Wee talking wumman in the dash, never could figure out how to shut her up.
Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Tue 27 Dec 11 at 17:10
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Somewhere in the DNA of the Maestro was a good car. It handled and rode well when all the springy bits were working, it was roomy, it was quiet and it had a fair turn of speed (If you were not saddled with the 1300 version)
The singularly most unreliable car I have ever had tho, left me stranded 4 times and failed to start every day between November and February every year.
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>>Down in the mouth Perro? The ad is bit cold-hearted towards suicide bombers you mean?<<
I just wonder how VW got away with it (was it banned?) if you watch it a few times (like I have) and freeze frame it, there is a young Mother in the scene with a babe in arms, so, a tad distasteful really.
Re: suicide bombers - all's fair in love and war.
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>> I just wonder how VW got away with it (was it banned?) if you watch it a few times (like I have) and freeze frame it, there is a young Mother in the scene with a babe in arms, so, a tad distasteful really.
I wondered myself. It was obviously made properly with full production values by the agency and its film makers. But I don't remember seeing it on proper TV. If it was there it wasn't there for long.
I wouldn't be surprised if VW refused to OK it officially, but allowed it to slip out virally to see what the effect would be, deniably so to speak.
As for the mother and baby, aren't they and their vulnerability part of the whole rather severe point? In real life these toerags are always massacring innocent passers-by indiscriminately. In the ad only the bad guy gets it.
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>>In real life these toerags are always massacring innocent passers-by indiscriminately. In the ad only the bad guy gets it.<<
Good point!
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Billy Connolly sums up suicide bombers like no politician ever could (Warning, contains grown up words) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNqUW5wwTE
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The body popping Gene Kelly in that Golf Gti advert. Haven't seen that in years.
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I recall that VW didn't make the advert. It was made by a company touting for work.
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That's correct - for the full story of the Polo-driving suicide bomber, see www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/vwpolo.asp
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My first brand new company car was a Montego 1.6L. Comfortable and capable of some outstanding mpg figures. Loved the advert when it first came out.
Mrs H's first brand new car was a 4-door Strada in metallic blue as seen on the bottom deck of the transporter.
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Bit of a cringe... - Robin O'Reliant
