The Coolest Car Commercial Ever

This is a really cool car commercial. I loved the KA commercials with the cat and the pigeon, but I think this beats them.

I just came across this in case some of you have already seen it.

You should probably right-click on the link and save the file before running it because it's coming from the UK. This will make it run more smoothly.

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurc...rcncs185030.mpg

Radar:

Respectfully, although the Citroen commercial /was/ cool, actually, the link below will lead you to the coolest car commercial ever.

quicktime movie
http://194.29.64.17/thecog/movie.html

brief description
http://physics.about.com/cs/mechanics/v/070603.htm

detailed backstory (worthwhile)
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html

Actually I saw that commercial before, and while it's very amusing, I still think the robot car was cooler.

I had never seen either, and both rocked. I judge a great commercial by how how long it takes me to get to the point where I am so sick of it that the second I know it's coming on, I change the channel, risking missing the show I was watching coming back on. It would be awhile for either one of these...

Anyone know where I can find that one VW commercial (failry recent) with Steve McQueen in it? I've looked all over and can't find anything about it. I'm a huge fan of his BTW, "The Great Escape", "Bullitt", "Magnificent Seven"

This guy has a pretty extensive ad collection. Try there.

Bullitt wrote:

Anyone know where I can find that one VW commercial (failry recent) with Steve McQueen in it? I've looked all over and can't find anything about it. I'm a huge fan of his BTW, "The Great Escape", "Bullitt", "Magnificent Seven"

I believe you're thinking of the new Mustang commercial. Go here and select Cornfield.

BigV wrote:

Radar:

Respectfully, although the Citroen commercial /was/ cool, actually, the link below will lead you to the coolest car commercial ever.

quicktime movie
http://194.29.64.17/thecog/movie.html

brief description
http://physics.about.com/cs/mechanics/v/070603.htm

detailed backstory (worthwhile)
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html

I can't load quicktime on this machine [damn IT nazis]. Any other format besides QT I can watch?

BigV wrote:

Radar:

Respectfully, although the Citroen commercial /was/ cool, actually, the link below will lead you to the coolest car commercial ever.

quicktime movie
http://194.29.64.17/thecog/movie.html

brief description
http://physics.about.com/cs/mechanics/v/070603.htm

detailed backstory (worthwhile)
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html

I saw the same kind of setup on PBS, only it wasn't car parts and it was a lot longer. Much cooler than dominoes.

sycamore wrote:

I believe you're thinking of the new Mustang commercial. Go here and select Cornfield.

The commercial is cool enough. But I just can't help feeling that it's not right to use the digital images of these dead actors to hawk goods.

richlevy wrote:

I saw the same kind of setup on PBS, only it wasn't car parts and it was a lot longer. Much cooler than dominoes.

We just borrowed a video like that. It was much longer but moved a lot slower... lots of chemical reaction fires and stuff. The kids dug it.

dar512 wrote:

The commercial is cool enough. But I just can't help feeling that it's not right to use the digital images of these dead actors to hawk goods.

I see your point, but come on, it's Steve McQueen and a Ford Mustang. They were practically bred for each other.

Bullitt wrote:

I see your point, but come on, it's Steve McQueen and a Ford Mustang. They were practically bred for each other.

Ah, but what if is were one of the many crappy mustangs built between the real cars? Seriously though, do you think John Wayne would've wanted his image selling beer now when he didn't do it then? :yelgreedy

Have you seen the Ford GT commercial? One of my favorites, filmed at Thunderhill in CA. The link is at the bottom of the page:

http://www.fordvehicles.com/fordgt/bulletin_detail.asp?type=news&id=1

BTW- I'm looking for the Porsche Cayenne commercial with the guy in the motorhome. Anyone know of a link?

Actually this is also one of my favorite car commercials. :D

http://www.macgregorcorp.com/panda.mov

"Cog" in flash format, for whoever asked

Here

Yes, it's real.

Anyone like motorcycles? This is a video of a professional racer riding a just released 1200cc BMW sportbike, the K1200S, around the Nurburgring in 7 min 57 sec. This bike will go 0-60 in 2.8 seconds, about as fast as non-race bikes get...

http://www.tv1.de/bmwtv/cms/_vm300/52271/asx.asx?bgColor=blue&bst=127x1x215x1

Awesome clip! Kind of like playing a video game. I liked when he got up on the warning strips and when he pulled up the front end off the corners! :thumbsup:

Dramimine....quickly. :sick:
Man what a ride!

kind of pissed me off that they kept that piss poor german rock music playing and didn;t let you hear the sound of the bike. also, that useless lap timer was in the way of the speedometer. And would a picture of the bike been too much to ask?

How about I start a cool motorcycle picture thread in the Images forum?