Wednesday, July 20, 2011

21st Century Insurance Cadillac Ad

All right, that does it! These guys have been running an annoying ad campaign where a guy in a white jumpsuit and a red hard hat ruins cars and then they allegedly get them “fixed” (although I’m pretty sure they just shoot the end part, where the cars are supposedly restored, first, and then shoot the part where they wreck the cars at the end of the shoot. That way they don’t have to bother getting them fixed at all, and you don’t get to see all the flaws in the repairs on camera.), and that’s fine, even though it’s getting really old by now. But then they had to go and do this: They take what looks like a 1962 Cadillac, and they crash it into these crappy red and blue contemporary cars. Now, I don’t care if they want to smash the newer cars, so long as they’re not mine, but to smash them with a beautiful old vintage automobile? That’s a bridge too far!

Here’s the outrageous ad: