Car Ad as Lego Racing Game

What it says on the tin.

New Car Kills Driver of Old Car

This is the first time have seen a car crash test with a antique car. When tests are done are done with production models or prototypes nothing much is lost. But this test has flushed a little piece of the past down the memory hole.

One Magic Minivan

The Renault Espace has been sold in Belgium for about 25 years. Renault recent campaign Renault Espace the for suggests that this one minivan is responsible for taller people, larger families and the complete elimination of canine abandonment.

(from Ads of the World)

Two Cars Too Close Tonight

Downtown Toronto @ Bay & Charles
Friday 05/11/10

Some Things are More Precious Than Life

You shot my car You BASTARD!

Gene Hunt, Ashes to Ashes S01E01
after renegade police constable
shot out driver side door window.

Get a Car So You Don't Have to Discover Fire

Unsold Cars Clogging the Planet

The Guardian has a photo series on the unsold cars stored in new and different places, Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world. The above image is ambiguous as there are cars often stored at ports and other places. however this image below of a test track being filled with unsold cars is a more telling image then full or fullish car lots.

Scary German Robots

Ninja Kittens have Something to do with Selling Cars

Dangerous Gas Sucking Insect Shaped Cars

More Living Cars

Here is an Honda Ad from Australia that is set not in Australia but in London. It shows a city filled with anthropomorphizing cars. See an earlier post that also includes speculations into these car cyborgs. Also here is a casting video for the ad.

Car Safety Then and Now

In the past day I have come across 2 radically different conceptions of auto safety and auto safety testing. Here is an attempt to use tires on bumpers. The test driver has no safety restraint and drives headlong into a brick wall. There is some sawdust for cushioning if he launched out of roofless the car. In another exercise Stephen Levitt of Feakonomics after looking at accidents reports suggests that car seats for are more dangerous than lap or shoulder seat belts for children 3+.

There are other approaches to car safety. The blog post before this suggests that you can avoid monsters, mobsters and ordinary psychos by driving a Smart car.

The Backseat Makes you Vulnerable

Only You Can Prevent Dinosaurs

Car Ad as Video Game Out Take

This ad from Lamborghini feels like an out take from Midnight Club or one the Grand Theft Auto, indeed here is a long (10 minutes) video of the same car in GTA IV. This was posted on a blog German Car Scene. If want to see more car Ads from Germany you check their youtube channel.