The most annoying car advert on TV.

[grober]

Just finished watching the Grand Prix. Ferrari wins again.
HOWEVER
The viewing experience marred by that extremely annoying Honda advert. The first one with all the car bits rattling about was entertaining. This latest one with the choir picking their teeth "this is what a honda sounds like" etc etc is just so bl--dy "SMUG"

 

[GRAV888]

Just finished watching the Grand Prix. Ferrari wins again.
HOWEVER
The viewing experience marred by that extremely annoying Honda advert. The first one with all the car bits rattling about was entertaining. This latest one with the choir picking their teeth "this is what a honda sounds like" etc etc is just so bl--dy "SMUG"

I pmsl when I saw that.
A lot of thought behind it, but utter cr*p.

 

[neilrr]

My pet hate of the moment is the one with the Fonz & the Happy Days characters. I hate it so much I have a mental block on the type of car being advertised & can't remember what it is. It looks like they've dug up dead people & glued their heads on some donor bodies.

I cannot reach for the remote fast enough when I hear the opening strains of the Happy days theme. I f#%ing hate that ad.

 

[eGuru]

Just finished watching the Grand Prix. Ferrari wins again.
HOWEVER
The viewing experience marred by that extremely annoying Honda advert. The first one with all the car bits rattling about was entertaining. This latest one with the choir picking their teeth "this is what a honda sounds like" etc etc is just so bl--dy "SMUG"

Couldn't agree with you more. Must be a very noisy car to drive

 

[graeme73s]

I can't stand the insurance add for sheila's wheels. three soppy tarts in a pink caddy

 

[DieselE]

Just finished watching the Grand Prix. Ferrari wins again.
HOWEVER
The viewing experience marred by that extremely annoying Honda advert. The first one with all the car bits rattling about was entertaining. This latest one with the choir picking their teeth "this is what a honda sounds like" etc etc is just so bl--dy "SMUG"

I think it's entertaining. Given that all the advertisers want is for you to remember their product, we'll both do that for different reasons.

 

[Swiss Toni]

I can't stand the insurance add for sheila's wheels. three soppy tarts in a pink caddy

The one in the middle makes this ad watchable in an odd kinda way. She looks like my ex. (misread your post, thought you said sloppy...)

 

[grober]

A car advert for people not interested in cars?

Its certainly clever, well put together and probably very expensive to make. Maybe for existing Honda Owners its self congratulatory tone is fine. All I know is that its not going to get me rushing down to my nearest Honda showroom to check out the latest models and I thought that was the whole point. I may be well off base here, but it strikes me as a car advert that is designed for people who aren't interested in cars Maybe that says something about potential or existing Honda owners or maybe me ? I dont know.

 

[PJH]

Sometimes Hondas sound like this.....

 

[grober]

Spoken like a true petrolhead.

 

[PJH]

Just finished watching the Grand Prix. Ferrari wins again......

Actually it was Ferrari's first proper win for 18 months.
ITV link

 

[grober]

Thats sort of what I meant, but it didnt come out right. Wonder if that particular Grand Prix will be Schumacher's Swan Song or have Ferrari begun to get a competitive tyre/car combination again.

 

[Vlad]

The one advert that gets right on my T*ts at the moment is the one for the Skoda Octavia where a woman jumps onto the roof of a moving train and then bursts in through the train window next to her boss

How it has any relevance to a Skoda Octavia is beyond me....

RUBBISH.

 

[SilverSaloon]

my vote goes to the current "autoglass" adverts on RADIO.

you just get the feeling that the "gavin" guy who does the advert would be a patronising ***** if u met him in real life.

 

[nickg]

and the best...............

- remember the car insurance (I think) ad where the guy jumps over the ferrari being driven at him by his wife?

- "Oh lord, wont you buy me a.........."

 

[Satch]

Years ago a major car maker did some research into the effectiveness of television advertising, mainly trying to make some connection between the huge rates charged by some TV companies for prime time advertising and Regional sales in the UK.

Guess what. There was none. Fleet buyers & lease companies were not influenced by TV advertising, Regional or otherwise. The "user choosers" for company cars have their own agendas anyway. Further research showed that in the more affluent areas (with the higher advertising rates) private buyers were not influenced into buying a volume car by TV advertising. It was such a complete waste of money they pulled all TV adverts other than for new model launches and concentrated their efforts elsewhere.

Clearly some people still have a lot to learn. I still do not know the make of car the "Happy Days" advert is actually for. Only seen it twice but so screaming annoying, crass and badly done I just blanked the entire thing.

Anyway, here is Campaign (advertising industry mag.) view for 2006:


Here is Campaign magazine's Ten Biggest Turkey adverts:

1. Camelot
2. Diet Coke
3. Mitsubishi
4. Ford Focus
5. Nobby's Nuts
6. Burger King
7. Quick Step flooring
8. Mazda
9. Specsavers
10. Weetabix

Campaign magazine's Ten Best TV ads:

1. Sony, Balls
2. Sure, Stunt City
3. Volkswagen Golf GTi, Singin' in the Rain
4. Stella Artois, ice-skating priests
5. Department for Transport Teen Road Safety
6. Guinness, "noitulove''
7. Marks & Spencer, Mr Blue Sky
8. Orange, Dance
9. 3, Dirty Music
10. British Heart Foundation, Under My Skin

 

[jeremytaylor]

My pet hate of the moment is the one with the Fonz & the Happy Days characters. I hate it so much I have a mental block on the type of car being advertised & can't remember what it is. It looks like they've dug up dead people & glued their heads on some donor bodies.

I cannot reach for the remote fast enough when I hear the opening strains of the Happy days theme. I f#%ing hate that ad.

CITROEN C3. I said, ....

 

[MikeL]

Not really an advert but most certainly one of the most annoying things on TV - Duck & Dog on Sky customer channel

Mike