# Unpimping cars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698 "2006-03-17T04:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/1 "2006-03-17T04:21:00Z")
I just want to say how much I like those VW commercials with the goofy German dude who unpimps cars by destroying them. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/2 "2006-03-17T04:32:16Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I just want to say how much I like those VW commercials with the goofy German dude who unpimps cars by destroying them. [Peter Stormare](http://imdb.com/name/nm0001780/) , best known for his role in Fargo. He’s actually Swedish. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/3 "2006-03-17T05:24:11Z")
Wow, that’s Peter Stormare? I don’t know if I ever would have made the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/4 "2006-03-17T06:04:48Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Wow, that’s Peter Stormare? I don’t know if I ever would have made the connection. [Post #10](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=361846&highlight=Stormare) I thought it was! Needed to check back I guess. I vant to know who hees blonde sidekick is. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/5 "2006-03-17T06:44:22Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Wow, that’s Peter Stormare? I don’t know if I ever would have made the connection. I didn’t make it at first either, but then he made one of those freaky type faces and I had a flashback involving Steve Bushemi and a woodchipper. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/6 "2006-03-17T07:19:38Z")
Us too…and we actually own 2 VWs. Suckers! VW has a habit of sending out goody packages for the GTIs. When my husband bought his first GTI they sent us a car detailing package, and we’ve heard rumors of people getting the GetFast Mutant Freaky GlowyEyRabbit Thing in the mail lately after he just bought a 2006 GTI. He has yet to receive it. So now that they’ve switched to thisnew Unpimp campaign, I’m hoping they’ll send us a Tall Blonde German Girl. I will make her do our housework and pick up the dog poop in the yard. She must also search his pocket pre-laundering for tissues. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/7 "2006-03-17T14:58:13Z")
It just proves the timeworn comedy adage: Trebuchets are always hilarious. Or, to quote Chris from _Nothern Exposure_, it’s not the thing you fling, it’s the fling itself. And it’s not just any fling. Trebuchets are funnier than catapults. They are funnier than cannons. The ponderous acceleration, the way the object is whipped in an overhand arc before flying free . . . Comedy gold, I tells ya. _Comedy gold._ ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/8 "2006-03-17T15:02:08Z")
I think it’s pretty clear that Stormare was cast in those commercials because of his role as the leader of the German nihilists in _The Big Lebowski_. In fact, I suspect the commercials were written just to work that character into them. Some advertising person was dreaming up a new commercial for VW about how the cars should have all their fancy accessories gotten rid of when it occurred to him to have Stormare’s character rid the cars of accessories in some violent fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/9 "2006-03-17T15:27:57Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > I think it’s pretty clear that Stormare was cast in those commercials because of his role as the leader of the German nihilists in _The Big Lebowski_. In fact, I suspect the commercials were written just to work that character into them. Some advertising person was dreaming up a new commercial for VW about how the cars should have all their fancy accessories gotten rid of when it occurred to him to have Stormare’s character rid the cars of accessories in some violent fashion. Yeah, that’s what I figured too. The first time we saw the commercial my wife was saying how he sounded like the guy, and I said, “I’m pretty sure that IS the guy.” Even though I like the nihilist bits in TBL, I think you still need to go back (at least) to Mike Myers doing Dieter on Saturday Night Live for that funny gayish techno german archetype. It probably even pre-dates that. Are there characters like that in Cabaret? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/10 "2006-03-17T17:17:38Z")
I recognized him right away from _Windtalkers_ and _Minority Report_ and then looked past him at his assistant. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/11 "2006-03-17T17:39:48Z")
\*Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter? Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of. \* ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/12 "2006-03-17T18:20:54Z")
Normally i hate adverts, but there’s just something funny and cathartic seeing these horribly cosmatically abused Riceboy\* cars being destroyed, i _hate_ cosmetically-abused cars (i’m more of a “sleeper” fan) \*the term “Rice”, in this case, does not refer to the car’s or driver’s country of origin, the food rice, or the current Secretary of State of the United States, it simply refers to the practice of cosmetically abusing cars by putting useless cosmetic crap all over them in an effort to make them “look faster” which actually makes them _slower_ by adding weight and screwing up the aerodynamics, and makes them look a lot stupider (both the driver _and_ the vehicle.) it also refers to the Riceboy’s “I’m a L337 dr1v3r!, I rul3!!!111!!!one!” attitude, when in actuality a brain-damaged chimpanzee on Ritalin has more driving skill than these poseurs ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/13 "2006-03-17T21:42:04Z")
Haven’t seen these commercials yet. (??) I will definitely look forward to doing so! As an aside to what **MacTech** said, I am particularly fond of those box-stock 4 bangers that have a muffler hanging out the butt-end of the car with a pipe that must be at least 4 inches in diameter. Oh, yeah, you really need one of those. ---
**Author:** ![mahj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@mahj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mahj)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/14 "2006-03-17T21:47:44Z")
For those who are interested; you can watch them online at this page: [http://www.flabber.nl/archief/015233.php](http://www.flabber.nl/archief/015233.php) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/15 "2006-03-17T22:54:22Z")
Vee-Dub een zeh haus! Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/16 "2006-03-17T23:01:29Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > As an aside to what **MacTech** said, I am particularly fond of those box-stock 4 bangers that have a muffler hanging out the butt-end of the car with a pipe that must be at least 4 inches in diameter. Oh, yeah, you really need one of those. [The new Batmobile?](http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0300/p49.htm) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/17 "2006-03-17T23:14:32Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [The new Batmobile?](http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0300/p49.htm) More like the Goatse-car. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/18 "2006-03-17T23:39:35Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [The new Batmobile?](http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0300/p49.htm) Holy crap, Lute! W ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpimping-cars/348698/19 "2006-03-17T23:40:45Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [The new Batmobile?](http://www.beaterz.com/reviews/0300/p49.htm) Holy crap, Lute! Watch out for the Bat-gas!