Sports car advertising taking a turn, but still confused why no Camaro Commercial

[Kahdir]

Originally Posted by mastertypodemon

Not a challenger fan personally, but I loved their commercial.

It's hard to do a patriotic commercial when the car is assembled in Canada...
Ford had the Mustang National Anthem rev commercial and now Dodge has the Challenger Freedom commercial... Chevy should consider '50s -> modern day car cruise type commercial (through a Red Robins or Sonic parking lot)

[mastertypodemon]

Originally Posted by Kahdir

It's hard to do a patriotic commercial when the car is assembled in Canada...
Ford had the Mustang National Anthem rev commercial and now Dodge has the Challenger Freedom commercial... Chevy should consider '50s -> modern day car cruise type commercial (through a Red Robins or Sonic parking lot)

Well Canada is kinda America, I mean, it's North America yeah, but just a technicality.They let us have hockey and Shania, we let them build the Camaro. Just like brothers.

[balagan]

Originally Posted by Kahdir

It's hard to do a patriotic commercial when the car is assembled in Canada...

Challenger is built in Canada, based on a Mercedes E-Class subframe and Chrysler Group LLC is 20% owned by Fiat (Fix it again Tony) - so probably the least American car out of the lot.

[Apex Paul]

[kbui]

Originally Posted by FirstCamaro2k10

Love the Mustang v6 ad, just saw the new Chally Ad the other day, the one where its like in the cival war or something, that one was great. I think there should be ad's for the Camaro, i dont care if it sales good or not, still, somebody may not really be looking at a Camaro, and see an ad on TV, and be like, wow, thats sweeeeet!!! i want one.

That was the Revolutionary War with George taking down the Redcoats in a Challenger .... Great commercial! If it was me I would have the release the commercial starting on the 4th.....

Personally, I don't care too much for commercials of any kind. I don't buy my products based on commercials. I would rather the have the sellers not spending the money on commercials to keep the prices down. That's the main reason I spend a lot of my money at Costco instead of other retailers. If I need to see the Camaro, all I need to do is to go out to my garage....While we are at it, I am really sick of companies spending millions on endorsements by a movie stars or athletes and pass that cost onto me as a consumer...

[chevydrvr]

I know this is a few days old but I just have to say that a good reason to have a commercial is to show people the facts like the horsepower and other things. Things you can't figure out just by seeing it drive by or watching it in a movie.

[mikeSS]

nothing beats the challenger commercial

[a_Username]

Originally Posted by balagan

Challenger is built in Canada, based on a Mercedes E-Class subframe and Chrysler Group LLC is 20% owned by Fiat (Fix it again Tony) - so probably the least American car out of the lot.

Oh yeah this guy said what we were all thinking!

[chevydrvr]

Originally Posted by mikeSS

nothing beats the challenger commercial

Oh yeah I agree I saw it and I was like wow! I though it was funny when I saw Washington driving a challenger. Was that Washington?

[shroomjohn]

I know just saw it again and had to find this thread. Man thats an awesome commercial. Camaro really needs one blah blah blah transformers I want something new come on chevy what have you done for me lately

[chevydrvr]

Exactly what I think. Finally! People are starting to understand!

[CaniacFan]

Originally Posted by chevydrvr

Exactly what I think. Finally! People are starting to understand!

Yup +1 Come on Chevrolet...

[fielderLS3]

EPIC FAIL!!!!

And I thought the other commercials Chrysler has been making over the last year were bad. This is proof that no matter how bad things get at Chrysler, they will find ways to make it worse. A satirist couldn't come up with a better (or worse) cliche than this in an intentional parody.

Am I the only one who finds it VERY DISRESPECTFUL to depict George Washington driving a car on a Revolutionary War (yes, Revolutionary War for those of you who went to public school) battle field in a cheap ploy to try to sell cars around the Fourth of July? Is that what freedom means to you? If that is all the more seriously we take our Independence, our freedoms, our history, and country in general, then maybe the dire condition our country is in is all we deserve. Chrysler should hang its head in shame, and the rest of us should at the very least be deeply offended (and probably boycott the company until they apologize) that they would exploit for short term gain what should be a very important and much deeper subject to all of us.

To make it worse, it is an ad for a car built using government bailout money borrowed from the Chinese by a company, a significant stake of which is owned by a country we were at war with during the lifetimes of many still alive, assembled in Canada, and rolling into "battle" on a German chassis. (Perhaps it would have been more accurate to show the Hessians (look it up) arriving in them).

Can't think of anything more American than that (though that does seem to be the American way lately). If George Washington were still alive today, I guarantee you he wouldn't drive a Challenger...he'd kick our asses back to the 18th century.

Sorry for the rant, but it's been a long time since I've been this pissed about something, and I am disappointed that more people aren't angry too.

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[chevydrvr]

I think they tried to make it show that the challengers were well... challengers. get it?

I refuse to believe any company would do that intentionally so I believe what I just said would be true.