Current Hummer TV Adverts

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Best on TV, no?

And I usually never watch the adverts, but these are so damn kickass you just have to watch them.
 
My brother's friend's Dad owns a sign company, and he makes signs. Well, umm, anyways, he made a billboard for some Hummer place, and it has a picture with a stretched Hummer limo on it, and underneath it reads, "Sometimes... you just feel like a nice long Hummer."
 
Wow, now THAT is good unintentional hummor.
I don't now about Hummers, but Hummves suck they leak everywhere. But then we beat on them pretty hard too:D
 
There was a news story I read on some board somwhere (well this isnt the only place I visit ya know :) ) Where it stated the #1 complain of Hummer (H1) owners about their car was; High Fuel Consumption.

I mean really... :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by M5Power
Best on TV, no?

And I usually never watch the adverts, but these are so damn kickass you just have to watch them.
You are weird. The Hummer ads are totally forgettable, except for the one that pisses me off because it shows an H2 cruising fast across what appears to be rock-strewn desert. Except it isn't, because when they pan around to the front, you see that the H2 is really driving down a nicely paved 2-lane blacktop... which is actually a sadly ironic commentary, which I doubt they intended.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
You are weird. The Hummer ads are totally forgettable, except for the one that pisses me off because it shows an H2 cruising fast across what appears to be rock-stren desert. Except it isn't, because when they pan around to the front, you see that the H2 is really driving down a nicely paved 2-lane blacktop... which is actually a sadly ironic commentary, which I doubt they intended.
The two I'm thinking of are where the kid builds a cardboard Hummer for a soapbox derby, takes a lot of crap from the kids who built actual cars, then goes on to win after short-cutting off-road and the brilliant one with the asteroids game (Which, granted, was filmed in Joshua Tree National Park, but hell if I knew that).
 
I think they'e obnoxious. They show Hummers driving in environments that nobody will ever go to, like the Arctic Circle? Yeah. That's real. Why not show somebody parallel parking one, or one stuck in traffic?
 
Originally posted by milefile
I think they'e obnoxious. They show Hummers driving in environments that nobody will ever go to, like the Arctic Circle? Yeah. That's real. Why not show somebody parallel parking one, or one stuck in traffic?

See post ten.
 
Originally posted by M5Power
The two I'm thinking of are where the kid builds a cardboard Hummer for a soapbox derby, takes a lot of crap from the kids who built actual cars, then goes on to win after short-cutting off-road and the brilliant one with the asteroids game (Which, granted, was filmed in Joshua Tree National Park, but hell if I knew that).
Well, those do sound pretty cool, but I've never seen them. I pretty much have to agree with what milefile wrote above, though. They should also never ever show a Hummer dirty, because I have yet to ever see one that didn't look like it was detailed that morning, because the tossers that own them lavish so much attention on the damn things and never drive them farther offroad than the grass at a Little League game.
 
I think they suck. Those commercials basically inforce the radical thinking it's owner's have when driving the H2. First off, the soab box one, the kid cheated. He's basically showing to people that when there's traffic that they can just drive off the road which is illegal in most places. The Asteroids one is way annoying with the "bier, bier, bier" sounds and distracts from the H2 itself. The other H2 commercials with it driving over rocks and stuff is just wierd. The movement of the wheels is really bad looking, like it's a warn out '80s Caddilac that needs shocks that when you drive next to them on the highway, they hit a bump and a wheel just bounces off the ground and keeps bouncing for a while after while the car itself barely changes virtical motion.

Though I have the same problem with the Frontier ad. First off, army people yelling does nothing for me. Then the lighting is all screwy and makes it hard to see the truck. Then they show it drifting over rocks and stuff. It looks horribly loose. The rear axle is all over the place, and the bed moves around on the chassis. It just looks bad.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Well, those do sound pretty cool, but I've never seen them. I pretty much have to agree with what milefile wrote above, though. They should also never ever show a Hummer dirty, because I have yet to ever see one that didn't look like it was detailed that morning, because the tossers that own them lavish so much attention on the damn things and never drive them farther offroad than the grass at a Little League game.

I would agree, but I saw a dirty one yesterday. Granted it was downtown, but it was still dirty. And not just a little dirty, either, it was very dirty.
 
Originally posted by MazKid
I think they suck. Those commercials basically inforce the radical thinking it's owner's have when driving the H2. First off, the soab box one, the kid cheated. He's basically showing to people that when there's traffic that they can just drive off the road which is illegal in most places.


:odd:

You're reading waaaay too much into that.

The Asteroids one is way annoying with the "bier, bier, bier" sounds and distracts from the H2 itself.

That's how Asteroids was until computers came along! Go to an arcade in the 1980s and play.
 
Originally posted by M5Power
See post ten.
Begrudgingly, I have to admit I did see that one and thought it was quite clever. Unfortunately, good ad talent can be wasted on stupid products.

I just really think Hummers are stupid. Excessive vehicles for superfluous people.*



*"superfluous" and "excessive" are interchangeable in this sentence.
 
Originally posted by milefile
Begrudgingly, I have to admit I did see that one and thought it was quite clever. Unfortunately, good ad talent can be wasted on stupid products.
I agree. GM clearly has money to be spent on advertising; if only they could spend a little on the products.
 
Do they still make the Hummer H1 (or whatever the previous model was called)? I don't really like the style of the H2. It doesn't look nearly as tough as the H1 did. Not to mention the fact that 9 out of 10 that I've seen on the road are Yellow..which is a horrible color for an SUV or even a car for that matter (sorry..I hate the color Yellow):D
 
Originally posted by Ethix101
Do they still make the Hummer H1 (or whatever the previous model was called)?

Yep.

It was originally called 'Hummer,' but upon the H2's arrival, it got its name changed to 'H1.'
 
hummer commercial? i cant remember any. i do remember that funny as hell nestle crunch commercial featuring some asshole driving a gargantuan SUV into his house. that was funny, hahaha.
 
Yeah, they had a thing in the paper saying GM spend heaps on H2 advertising, and about 11,000 of every purchase was because of the advertising...
 
I think Doug probably likes them because you don't see them all that often (the commercials I mean).
 
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