Unpimp your ride!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-02-24 02:24pm

VW's hillarious ad campaign

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-02-24 02:35pm

"Vat time is it ? Time zu unpimp ze auto"

That's even better then the 206 ads.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2006-02-24 02:36pm

That is awesome.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2006-02-24 04:28pm

That's just pretty.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2006-02-24 04:39pm

Fucking grand! Finally, combating the idiocy of ricers and "pimped" and "tricked out" automobiles.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2006-02-24 05:18pm

This is why I'm a volkswagen man

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-02-24 05:31pm

Vork of art

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-02-24 09:10pm

That is one of the best ad series ever. Complete love from me

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Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2006-02-26 06:17am

defiently better then the fast ones, those those are pretty cool too.

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2006-02-26 07:07am

I think I'm in love with Peter Stormare... That was pure and unrefined 28-carat genius.

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2006-02-26 11:17pm

What you're seeing here is viral marketing in action. Viral marketing is basically the latest evil marketing tool developed by us evil corporate marketing drones; the idea is to create advertisements so interesting that people will talk about them and share them with their friends (which is what you see here). This results in the brand being built at an accelerated rate, with less of a connection between the brand and the actual quality of the products in question. As cars go, Volkswagen is more or less shit in every respect (quality, reliability, design), but their new ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky is arguably, at the moment, the worlds leading ad agency, and I have no doubt that this campaign will be hugely successful in rebuilding their brand.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2006-02-27 12:23am

V-Dub is in the house, ja!

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-02-27 12:28am

RThurmont wrote:What you're seeing here is viral marketing in action. Viral marketing is basically the latest evil marketing tool developed by us evil corporate marketing drones; the idea is to create advertisements so interesting that people will talk about them and share them with their friends (which is what you see here). This results in the brand being built at an accelerated rate, with less of a connection between the brand and the actual quality of the products in question. As cars go, Volkswagen is more or less shit in every respect (quality, reliability, design), but their new ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky is arguably, at the moment, the worlds leading ad agency, and I have no doubt that this campaign will be hugely successful in rebuilding their brand.

Man, you really need to listen to your Fast *va-zchwoomp*

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2006-02-27 12:43am

My fast makes it hard to listen to people talk about their jobs.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2006-02-27 01:38am

Oh my god, that is AWESOME!

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-02-27 04:36am

As cars go, Volkswagen is more or less shit in every respect (quality, reliability, design)

Are they selling different VW's in Europe and the US ? Because VW is one of *the* best brands in terms of quality and reliability.

Zed Snardbody · Post by **Zed Snardbody** » 2006-02-27 04:46am

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2006-02-27 04:53am

Oh snap!

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-02-27 05:45am

Bounty wrote:
As cars go, Volkswagen is more or less shit in every respect (quality, reliability, design)

Are they selling different VW's in Europe and the US ? Because VW is one of *the* best brands in terms of quality and reliability.

I used to own an old VW. It was between 10-15 years old and never, ever gave me trouble (offcourse, it was a very basic model and things can't break if they aren't there

). Even survived a car accident with it

Me: broken backlight, scratched paint

vs

Fiat: totalled

So yeah

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-02-27 08:31am

Bounty wrote:
As cars go, Volkswagen is more or less shit in every respect (quality, reliability, design)
Are they selling different VW's in Europe and the US ? Because VW is one of *the* best brands in terms of quality and reliability.

They may well be, because VW in the US has a reputation for unreliability. Do you have any numbers?

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2006-02-27 10:35am

Man, that commercial is awesome. Duetschland in the haus!

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-02-27 10:41am

phongn wrote:
Bounty wrote:
As cars go, Volkswagen is more or less shit in every respect (quality, reliability, design)
Are they selling different VW's in Europe and the US ? Because VW is one of *the* best brands in terms of quality and reliability.
They may well be, because VW in the US has a reputation for unreliability. Do you have any numbers?

I'm looking right now - for starters, there's 3 Skoda's (VW's budget line) in the top-ten of Top Gear's 2005 survey. I'll look for more.

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2006-02-27 11:42am

They show those ads a lot on G4. I love the one where the engineer comments after unpimping some fool's car, "Oh, we dropped it like it's hot. Representin' for Deutschland." and flashes the VW hand signal.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2006-02-27 12:04pm

Want your own Fast? AAAHAHAAHAHAHA

338 bucks so far. Man, I'd like to have my own fast figurine, but I ain't paying that much for it. Sheesh.

Your Wallet=PWNED!

FedRebel · Post by **FedRebel** » 2006-02-27 02:29pm

Bounty wrote:
phongn wrote:
Bounty wrote: Are they selling different VW's in Europe and the US ? Because VW is one of *the* best brands in terms of quality and reliability.
They may well be, because VW in the US has a reputation for unreliability. Do you have any numbers?
I'm looking right now - for starters, there's 3 Skoda's (VW's budget line) in the top-ten of Top Gear's 2005 survey. I'll look for more.

There's the 'problem', Skoda does not exist in the US

The good VW's are optimized for blitzkrieging through Europe, but due to silly laws in the US designed to protect the whining domestic market, we get stuck with the bad VW's