Comments on: Mercedes: Reckless Driving Is Smarter

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By: Peter Meitzler

Peter Meitzler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:48:52 +0000

The ad makes a point of showing how the side view mirrors of this petite SUV! just clear a stone wall of the old town center, reinforcing the notion that the car shouldn’t really be there. And the tinted windows can’t hide the fact apparently one person is inside. Hey: you could have least given folks a ride to the church at the top of hill, where it naturally parks right by the front door, diagonally. What’s it tell you about a car ad when most other signs of city life must be removed in order to make your vehicle look good?

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:46:14 +0000

Automobile manufacturers’ extensive research repeatedly confirms the bad news: the realities of automobile ownership and operation are — at best — unsaleable.

That’s why automobile advertising eschews those realities in favor of unfulfillable fantasies involving single cars “flying” down roads “uncluttered” with other cars, red lights, and pedestrians or cyclists.

Observe, too, that now even that’s not enough: The most current generation of automobile ads eschew actual cars in favor of computer generated graphics of cars doing very un-carlike things…

By: Alex from Minneapolis

Alex from Minneapolis — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:31:37 +0000

Glad to see I’m not the only person annoyed by this ad.

By: Rich Wilson

Rich Wilson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:02:18 +0000

I seem to remember a MBZ add that showed guys driving TO a hurricane to surf.

At least they weren’t endangering anyone other than themstupidselves.

By: Andy B from Jersey

Andy B from Jersey — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:06:28 +0000

I love German cars but this commercial is clearly reckless and I had the same exact thought when I first saw it. Almost as bad as those Ford commercials last year that had Derek Jeter and Spike Lee racing around the streets of NYC with the rear ends fishtailing at every turn.

I bet this was made exclusively for the American market. If this add ran in Germany or elsewhere in Europe there would be a riot.

On the opposite end of the spectrum however the Euros often allow race cars and motorcycles to go full tilt through towns like in World Rally Championship events and the Isle of Man TT. People, including spectators die in these events every year but at least they are willing participants who are aware of the risk (yes, even the spectators are “willing” to a degree).

By: cochon

cochon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:02:12 +0000

i’m confused. what was it that you had expected from a car commercial then?

By: Bristol Traffic

Bristol Traffic — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:13:49 +0000

Given that’s clearly Italy, that car is actually going to have to deal with the realities of italian driving, which means the oncoming car with the driver on the phone and the police car parked round the blind corner. If they did try driving like that, their car would come out worse. The fact it still has wing mirrors shows it is a tourist.

By: jass

jass — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:02:48 +0000

Charles Siegel, that looks like steps into a house than a calming device.

Mark Walker, chills, really? Its a car ad. They’re talking about how its smaller than other SUVs and handles well. Its a very well done ad. It’s a fantasy ad, not an instructional video.

By: Charles Siegel

Charles Siegel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:36:33 +0000

Notice that at 15, he has to slow down a bit to steer around a stone block by the side of the road. No doubt, someone put it there as a traffic-calming device. They need more of the same.

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:19:58 +0000

Based on the cathedral, a helpful Yahoo Answerer has placed the ad in the Tuscan town of Chiusi.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:18:34 +0000

Yeah, ok, they shot the whole thing at 3 MPH and then sped it up for the commercial. We’re all real impressed.

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:04:49 +0000

This ad gave me chills the first time I saw it, and it still upsets me. There are two scary things about it. One, the car is moving through streets so narrow that there’s literally no room for a pedestrian or biker — if you were in that street with that car, you’d have no way of evading it. And the car is literally racing at high speeds. This ads turns what should be car-free streets (because they’re too narrow to function any other way) into killing machines. Shudder.