Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Volkswagen Golf GTI World Cup "Ole" Ad

VW has made some ads for the 2014 World Cup, and one of these ads shows a bunch of different groups of people all dressed- and made-up in their countries' colors, with team jerseys, face paint and wigs, etc., and they each get into a VW Golf and drive, celebrating, to the game.

Well, seeing as how VW is a German car company, I thought a more fun ad would be for us to see a group from some country dress all up like they do here, but only show one group, and then they drive to the game, celebrating all the way; and then we see that their team loses to Germany, and so they all go out into the parking lot, and they (as well as other countrymen in the parking lot) attack and smash and trash the VW (because it's a German car, and their team lost to Germany).

And VW could make a version of this ad for every team Germany plays, and run the ad right before and after each specific game, rubbing in the loss. Oh, but I guess that might not help to sell VWs, huh? (But at least they could enjoy all the schadenfreude to go with their fahrvergnugen*.)

But I do like this VW "Ole" ad a lot.

Here's the new Volkswagen Golf GTI World Cup "Ole" ad I'm referring to here:

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7D8C/volkswagen-golf-gti-ole

* Here's the old VW "Fahrvergnugen" ad from 1990:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOnne-90CLI

(BTW: Germany tied with Ghana in their second game, so this already wouldn't work. {Although now they've made it to the final, so this might really work after all: we'll see.*})

* BTW: Germany did end up winning the World Cup in Brazil (thanks to the VW Golf GTI).