I love this ad campaign for the Audi pre-owned program, because they make the thing they are advertising (the Audi certified pre-owned program) look so intolerable for new Audi owners, these ads might even cut down on sales of new Audis. In
these ads, subsequent future owners of the new Audi in the ad harass the
current owner so that the car will still be nice when they buy and own it later
on. (Would you buy a new car that came with an insufferable jerk from the future nagging you constantly and second-guessing and back-seat driving your every move?) In fact, they’re such annoying jerks about it, I would expect these new
Audi owners to intentionally wreck their own cars just so that these asinine
control freaks will stop harassing them, and more to the point, so that they
can’t have the car (without it having been in a wreck that turns it into a
lemon by then). Maybe another ad could show the guy with his used Audi notice a
slight scratch on the car, and he goes back in time to harass the first owner
about it, and when he return to his own time, his car is a complete wreck,
awarding him his just desserts for being such a jerk to the first owner. But I
suppose I’d be satisfied enough if she just called the cops and had the guy
arrested for stalking her. (Cops: “Oh, you’re the future owner of her car? I think we’ve got a psycho on our
hands here!” {And they beat him up with nightsticks.})
Here’s the annoying auto ad:
