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The best ads tell a story , and this one for the mid-90s Citroën XM Pallas certainly does that. In fact, it's more of an informercial than an regular car ad, with inspiring music right out of an Early Dot-Com Era shareholder's meeting. Best as we can tell, the Citroën driver here is bringing a box containing a critical mass of our favorite off-brand fissionable material, Uranium 233 (cast in a ring shape, of course, to avoid troublesome criticality events in the back seat) to the local warlord's headquarters in a Damnation Alley -esque post-disaster world.
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newVideoPlayer("/Peugeot_205_France_476.flv", 506, 423,""); When a man really loves a woman, he stalks pursues her at high speed, menacing pedestrians and driving on the tracks in front of a big ol' steam locomotive. What better car than the Peugeot 205, which was sold via the use of the Bronski Beat song in this ad and an even more dated ABC song in another one? Of course, we like the French James Bond Peugeot 205 GTI ad the best! And since we're feeling so 80s that we're ready to trade some arms for hostages and send the profits to Freedom Fighters, let's watch the original music video for the Bronski Beat song used in this ad. Weren't the 80s great?
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newVideoPlayer("/84_Pug_205GTI_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Franzouse keeps sending us tips about cars that hail from the land of Pasteur and Derrida, and today he's found us one of the Best Peugeot Ads Of All Freakin' Time. When a secret agent man needs to deliver a Very Important Briefcase, there's no better car than a Peugeot 205 GTI. Helicopter gunship on your tail? No problem! There's nothing the 205 GTI can't do!
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newVideoPlayer("/Citroen_GSX_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Once you drop off the old man at the (train station? whorehouse?), the Citroën GSX turns you into a total menace on the roads; you'll be beating your chest and howling- and we mean literally howling- with the sheer macho joy of its mighty 65-horsepower engine. It's too bad we found this ad after selecting the entrants for the Best Car Ads Of The 1970s poll , because we think it would have made a strong showing in the vote.
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newVideoPlayer("Renault_Kangoo_Simpsons_France_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Remember when Renault announced that they'd made a deal with 20th Century Fox to use characters from The Simpsons to shill the Kangoo minivan? Well, here's the result, which has been floating around the Internet for a while but hasn't landed here yet. It's about as entertaining as a French minivan could be; we're especially impressed with Homer's Donut Belt and the "money" he uses to buy a new Kangoo. What's next, Jodie Foster selling Civics?
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newVideoPlayer("Citroen_GS_Shaddock_476.flv", 506, 423,""); We don't speak Cartoon French around here, but it's pretty clear what's going on in this edition of Classic Ad Watch: the hapless shaddock makes the mistake of attempting to drive a car equipped with a spring-based suspension, is hurled into a tree and suffers head and leg injuries as a result. Better to drive a Citroën GS (such as the one we saw down on the Alameda street last week ), which protects large sentient citrus fruit from harm with its suspension hydropneumatique! Thanks to Franzouse for the tip.
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newVideoPlayer("80s_Renault_5_UK_476.flv", 463, 387,""); In North America, it was called the Le Car, and it served as the basis for the way-cooler-than-the-EV1 Lectric Leopard. But over in Yurp, the boxy little Renault hatch was known as the 5 , and it apparently inspired Britons in the Late Malaise Era to experience life as a sort of mashup of thumping late-70s disco and retina-damaging early-80s fashion. Look at it this way: Renault 5... or Rover Metro? Tip of the beret to Franzouse for finding this for us!
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newVideoPlayer("Lancia_Carla_Bruni_476.flv", 475, 376,""); So when singer (and apparent girlfriend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy) Carla Bruni gets out of a Lancia Musa , sings some Nancy Sinatra, and lays hands upon a vaguely disreputable-looking stretch Lincoln Town Car, the poor Detroit machine bursts into flames. Yeah, made us want to buy a Panda-based mini-minivan, too.
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newVideoPlayer("Austin_Princess-476.flv", 475, 376); After seeing James May torturing himself with that British Leyland stalwart, the Austin Princess, on a recent Top Gear episode , we realized there's far more to the Malaise Era than 140-horse big blocks and tape-striped Brougham Edition Detroit land yachts. Thanks to British Leyland's inimitable devotion to engineering and build quality, the Princess set a new standard for, uh, luxury? Here we see how a Princess jaunt to the Continent with one's driver can lead to reversal of class roles and the possibility of Hot French Hitchhiker adventures.
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