Car Ads on TV

JohnCarterofMars · Registered User Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 1113

No! not car advertisments on theville, but on television. Has anyone else noticed that in a 30 minute period of time on any given television channel every other commercial is for a frikin car?

Buy a chevy, buy a ford, buy a KIA, son of a biscuit eater!!!! enough with the car ads. I know the car manufacturers are hurting but they are only going to make things worse by purchasing more television time with the lower and lower quantity of orders for new vehicles.

Come on guys face it the economy is in the hole and selling more cars is not going to bring us out of the reccession. I hardly watch television anymore since I am always playing at TV(LOL), but I am sick and tired of looking at people marching across the screen telling me that I could get a new 2003 vehicle with 0% apr for 60 months and yadda yadda yadda.

My car is paid for and I don't plan to buy another one until it quits running. I sometimes wish the government had never bailed Chrysler out of bankruptcy... I am sure the folx that work for them would beg to differ, but thats my opinion, take it with a grain of salt...
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Kazebari · Official Mall Ninja Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 935

Woah....0%apr for SIXTY MONTHS?! what car was that?!

JohnCarterofMars · Registered User Joined: 12 Aug 2001 Posts: 1113

it was a chrysler ad, but alot of car dealers are doing this now because of the slump in sales. Anything to get a perspective buyer into the show room so they can railroad them into purchasing a car they don't need...

usually they will say 0% apr and then when you get down to the dealership they say, "Oh yah, well we already sold that one, but you can get this one at a low low interest rate..." BAH
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Violent Pacifist · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject:

All the car ads I see keep saying...

"No down payment, no payment, no interest for 5 years! This has never been done before!"

Lies....
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject:

The best one is where they get you to go to the dealership for 0% and then you don't qualify. Or the vehicle that you want doesn't qualify for the 0%. There is always a catch of some sort. #Fist

Dealerships
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Gurrg · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject:

Another thing i hate about car/suv ads.

They are always bragging "And with this new 4X4 package you will be able to go off-roading anywhere you wish" Honestly now, i say about 10% of the people that buy SUV's are not for off roading, it is to haul their big family around not to climb mountains, get a life dealers.
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject:

FingerDemon · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:21 pm Post subject:

I worked at this video production studio a long time ago and these car dealers came in to shoot some stuff for a conference. They were talking about their upcoming ad campaign and how much air time they were buying and how viewers would be totally saturated with the ads which would run for several weeks.

I just kept thinking... And this helps you sell cars?

I guess hard sell works on some people. Go figure.

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DaKon · Ville Supporter Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 2342

My next car will be a Mini Cooper type S. Love the Brit car made by BMW.
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Widow Maker · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 12:01 am Post subject:

4x4 are not used for just offroading, they also come in handy when you live with snow and ice for 5 to 6 months of the year.

DJ George · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 12:30 am Post subject:

I would not mind a new car, mine is about due to get hit by someone running a stop sing or talking on a cell phone (That is how I lost my last to cars, the girl with a cell phone casued it to be a 5 car crash, and me to have back problems at the old age of 19 #Fist

)anyone know where I can get one of those M1A supertanks cheap? lets see some one hit me then
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kamikaze · Registered User Joined: 10 Sep 2001 Posts: 138

sad thing is we don't get the cool car ads. i've seen one that they're playing in europe for honda, it's called the cog. another good one i've seen is from subaru, it's played over in australia. man, i'd love to see those on a more regular basis, the commercials we have here are so unimaginative.
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PondScm007 · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 12:28 pm Post subject:

yeh, US car ads suck, the only recent one i find half-decent is the mitsubishi endeavor one, because they have overseer music in it whee
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