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Audi La-La

By Wlady Pleszczynski on 2.8.10 @ 1:30PM

Among the many moronic ads last night there were a few funny ones. Naturally, the NYTimes' critic found none of them amusing; even the Washington Post 's over the hill Tom Shales wasn't that humor deprived. He even mentioned the Tebow ad, something the NYTimes critic passed over. To the latter's credit, he did find time to diss the single most disturbed add of all, Audi's, which he described thus:

Officious “green police” punish citizens who are not sufficiently eco-conscious, but an owner of an Audi A3 TDI with clean-diesel technology drives away scot-free. This misguided spot put the "mental" in "environmental."

You can watch it here. I'm still scratching my head as to why Audi would hype its green car in manner only Al Gore and Henry Waxman would appreciate. Perhaps it was inspired by the movie version of A Clockwork Orange.

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Pete| 2.8.10 @ 1:39PM

With Toyota and its "Pious" under attack from the administration, why not try to steal some market share? The kooks who buy those things are probably panicked. I am surprised Honda didn't do something similar.

ECM| 2.8.10 @ 1:56PM

Hell, I though it was pretty funny.

wapiti307| 2.8.10 @ 1:57PM

I found the ad disturbing and not very entertaining. Don't give the environuts any more ideas. The ideas they presently have are alarming enough. I liked the modified Cheap Trick song, though.

Flee| 2.8.10 @ 3:38PM

I thought it was pretty irritating and not too far from reality if some enviro diehards have their way. The redone song sounded an awful lot like the real Cheap Trick. Maybe they needed the gig and performed it.

W8MM| 2.8.10 @ 4:01PM

It is Cheap Trick and their custom re-recording done at Audi's behest.
www.cheaptrick.com

wwwexler| 2.8.10 @ 5:59PM

It pissed me off! Audi was stupid to run it.

CJohnson| 2.8.10 @ 10:58PM

audi (germans) ribbed us, almost calling us "nazis" and i am still rofl....they jest us now after a long grief. i just wish it were not true and that our youth understood the parody.

David Dennis| 2.9.10 @ 1:07AM

Lighten up, guys. This ad is satire, and extremely well done satire at that. It's amusing and clearly designed to make people think.

Even though the point of the ad is for the Audi to transcend the gap between environmentalists and drivers, viewer sympathy is clearly meant to be with the violators, not the Green Police. The Green Police look like, and are, bullies.

Bloody funny and making an essentially conservative viewpoint - what's not to love?