http://www.boreme.com/bm/JAN05/a/vw-suicide-bomber/fr.htm

That's a great ad!! Almost makes me want to buy a Volkswagon.

That's messed up. Cool, but strange.

Notice that it's a right-hand drive car...European ad. I love it, but they'd never get away with it here. :D

Notice that it's a right-hand drive car...European ad. I love it, but they'd never get away with it here. :D

Yeh, I love me some VW's, but that's pretty messed up.

Thaaaaat's a little too close to the edge for me. :no:

EW's right. That'd never fly in our "pc" world. The screams of outrage would start immediately, and it'd get yanked in a heartbeat.

Clay

Just so I don't tie up the phone line overnight waiting for my dialup connection to load it, is this the one where the sports car driver is smirking smugly at an economy-car driver at the light , blipping his motor and driving away, only to have another head (hah) suddenly appear in the economy car?

Sorry if I spoiled the punchline. (Can you believe it was Norman stuffed his mother and wore her old dress during the murders? Or that Bruce Willis was the ghost the whole time?)

Not even close.

Curious turn of events: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20050128/wr_nm/autos_volkswagen_ad_dc -- Foe

Shit, I still like the VW ads from the '60s. Cute, thoughtfull, witty, quirky-about everything the "Everything's gotta knock 'em dead" school of advertising we have today ISN'T. At least the herky-jerky "NYPD Blue" school of camera work has about run its course.-Sandy G.

Curious turn of events: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20050128/wr_nm/autos_volkswagen_ad_dc -- FoeCompany spokesman Hartwig von Sass said VW lodged a criminal complaint with prosecutors in Brunswick, Germany, but did not specify a perpetrator. "This is an attack on Volkswagen's good name," he said of the ad, which he called cynical and criminal."Did the moron even watch the ad? It doesn't slam VW in any way, shape, or form.

That video is downright cool... twisted... but cool!

Absolutely. Sends a good message as to what end all chickenshit suicide bombers should come to. Only blowing up themselves rather than the mostly innocent folks around them.