# Car Commercials That Don't, That Don't, Rock Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658 "2002-10-17T13:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/41 "2002-10-18T14:59:54Z")
Oddly enough, the last guy I went out with _did_ call me a flaming ball of hot gases that causes melanoma . . . ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/42 "2002-10-18T15:00:11Z")
You know…like the MISUBISHI sports car-with that weird broad having a seizure in the front seat? What’s that all about? Then you see a bunch of black chicks in one, going through a tunnel…they are snapping fingers and chilling out…and contemplating colliding with that big mac truck in front of them…however, the Mitsu ads are doing well-their sales are up:o ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/43 "2002-10-18T15:12:52Z")
Did he get a goodnight kiss? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/44 "2002-10-18T15:29:45Z")
. . . Yeah, and his eyebrows have yet to grow back . . . ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/45 "2002-10-18T21:31:21Z")
Okay, wait a second, back up a minute: Does Buick actually have so little to recommend their vehicles that they have to build their ad campaign around the conceit that their new designs are being produced by a _dead guy?_ I mean, what the hell? ---
**Author:** ![Blueberry\_Buckle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@Blueberry\_Buckle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueberry_Buckle)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/46 "2002-10-19T02:21:06Z")
I disliked ALL vehicle commercials until I was watching tv the other night, and a Chevy commercial came on. Two guys are sitting in their car, driving up to the red stoplight and the passenger is attempting to drink a cup of “hot liquid”. Everytime the passenger tries to take a drink, the driver “bumps” his brakes…until the light turns green. Then the voice over says something to the effect “helping you grow through all your immaturities”. I find it hilarious (reminds me of things we used to do growing up I suppose). ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/47 "2002-10-19T13:19:20Z")
I’ve seen that one, **Blueberry**. I felt the same as you, although I won’t after I’ve seen it 10 or 12 more times… And I kind of like the one (Suburu, maybe?) in which the guy’s sitting in the car, singing along to “American Pie” while his girlfriend waits patiently outside for the song to end so they can go walk on the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/48 "2002-10-19T14:46:03Z")
Why did Prudential choose the “rock” of Gibrlatar as their logo? I mean, the metaphor of “strength, longevity, and durability” is not that difficult to see. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/49 "2002-10-19T15:16:48Z")
Stupid Car Ad on European Telly: It’s a Citroën ad. A man is driving the car along a motorway, with his girlie in the front passenger seat. Lo! A fighter jet appears! It flies over the car, upside down and really close, such that the pilot of the plane can eye up the girlie. The girlie appears to be impressed, and gives the pilot the glad eye. The man driving the car notices a bridge coming up, and appears to think that the plane might hit the bridge. The pilot pulls his aicraft away, and doesn’t hit the bridge. This does not make me want the _car_. This makes me want the _PLANE_. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/50 "2002-10-27T19:25:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*Okay, wait a second, back up a minute: Does Buick actually have so little to recommend their vehicles that they have to build their ad campaign around the conceit that their new designs are being produced by a _dead guy?_ I mean, what the hell? \*\* Yeah, pretty much. Have you _seen_ the new Buicks? :darn, no “nauseated” smiley: ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658/51 "2002-10-27T20:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lawoot \* > I remember reading that Bob Seger has no problems with GM using “Like A Rock” in its TRUCK (not car) ads - he knows that the blue collar workers that make the trucks are his core audience, and will do anything to support them. So, are cars made by white collar workers who listen to prog rock? The car commercial that annoys me is the one where the whole family heads off in the morning with each one in their own brand new Ford Focus. Something about it just gets on my nerves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-commercials-that-dont-that-dont-rock-me/132658.md?page=2)