Now here’s a commercial for a Toyota pickup truck that’s definitely aimed at their most dedicated consumers: terrorists. Yes, terrorists like ISIS and Al Qaida almost exclusively drive Toyota pickup trucks, and this spot certainly reminds us of that, with all the explosions going off. You wouldn’t think Toyota would want to remind us in their advertising that they are the world’s number one purveyor of vehicles for terrorist groups, but apparently you’d be wrong in not thinking that.
So in this spot, someone (I have to assume a terrorist, seeing as how it’s a Toyota pickup truck) is driving a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck down a road in the desert (the desert being where most terrorists seem to hang out) when a couple of motorcycles pass by, presumably to perpetrate a drive-by assassination or something. But the assassination attempt goes awry, and the Toyota Tacoma driver chases after the motorcyclists, setting off a roadside bomb as the truck goes off-road. (The roadside bomb was, I guess, a backup plan just in case the drive-by motorcycle hit failed, which it did. This must be a sectarian struggle between terrorist groups we’re witnessing here.) Then a bunch of IEDs go off, or maybe a group of suicide bombers set off their bomb vests simultaneously, but still the pickup truck keeps driving. (Maybe this is why terrorists like Toyota pickup trucks so much: they can survive numerous blasts from roadside bombs and such, as we can clearly see here.) Then the Toyota pickup truck gets swarmed by a bunch of other pickup trucks and motorcycles Mad Max-style.
Man, I’ll bet the terrorists will race out in droves to buy this new Toyota truck! (Maybe this ad, with all its explosions and such, was made to lure the terrorists out of hiding for a sting operation to catch them all at a Toyota dealership. They must go to one at some point to get their trucks. Unless Toyota has a mail order service for terrorist groups?)
Here’s the explosive spot:
