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The 5 Greatest Car Commercials Ever

Some car companies get it, some don’t, but the ultimate key to developing a vehicle’s image is successfully targeting the appropriate demographic [there's a reason why you don't see many 21-34 white males driving station wagons]. As was the case with the following companies [and one surprisingly "hip" government agency], the 5 commercials that made our list are the funniest, most perfect examples of the success one single smartass in your marketing department can create. We still might not want to buy the car, but at least they’ve earned themselves a little cred with the masses.

1. SEAT Panda

An oldie but goodie, this ad from Spanish auto company SEAT was banned from television and makes our Number 1 spot for flagrantly violating our commonly held ride-law that the guy with the hotter car always wins.

2. Australia Road and Track Authority [RTA]

Not strictly a “car” commercial, this ad was part of multi-ad campaign launched by the Australian government to crack down on excessive speeding. It took us [read: me] a while to pick-up on exactly what the ad was inferring, but when lightning finally struck, it was pretty damn funny.

3. smartforTwo

Banned in the U.S. its violence, this ad from smart does an impressive job of creating a cool image for a decidedly uncool-looking car.

4.Honda Civic

Originally aired in Italy, this ad was banned for glaringly obvious reasons. Made our list for acknowledging the fact that in a Honda Civic, the only babes you’ll be picking up are ones you pay for.

5. Subaru Forrester

We love a car that plays up its own stereotype, and Subaru definitely hit the mark with their ad for the admittedly masculine 2009 Subaru Forrester.

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How To Kill A Toyota Truck, Video

I happened upon some facts and figures for Motor company advertising for 2006, for that year in the US alone manufacturers spent $6.7billion and that was only up until June. For that same period Toyota spent $651 million on break dancing transformer cars, and sexy models draped over some of their budget vehicles that were no where near as attractive as the models.

And that reminded me of an advertisement for Toyota that no overpaid Madison Avenue Ad exec would ever have thought of, and has possibly been responsible for more Toyota truck sales than any multi million dollar ad campaigns the company ever signed up for.

UK motoring TV show Top Gear was well aware of Toyota’s reputation for having one of the roughest, toughest, never let you down trucks on the planet. The choice for Arctic explorers, African malisha army’s and the Afghan rebels, a poor army’s version of a Sherman Tank, the Toyota Truck.

So they came up with a simple idea, let’s try to destroy a Toyota truck and see what kind of punishment it can take and still start up and move. So that is exactly what they did, they set out to Kill A Toyota Truck.

The rules were simple no spare parts and only basic tools to be used for short period on site, with no second chances.

SPOILER ALERT, Don’t read this until you have watched the first video !!!

So the Toyota has proved its tough, it can withstand all kinds of outrageous punishment like being driven into walls, smashed head-on into tree’s, being driven down stone steps, having a trailer dropped on it, being smashed with a giant wrecking ball and even being left out in the North Sea for a few hours and then finally having gas poured all over it and set on fire.

And it still runs, so the team thought the answer was obvious, they simply were not thinking big enough. So take a look at this clip to see what they came up with to finally Kill A Toyota Truck, or will it?

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