So hilarious. Check out the new Volkswagen ads (3 at the bottom of the page) featuring a Dr. Evil-style German engineer and his sexy sidekick, giving over-pimped cars the GTI treatment. I can't stop watching them. "Ooh - Snap"! Presumably by VW's agency CP+B.
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everything i say, jon's all like "oooh, SNAP!"
cut it out jon.
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"Imagine how these ads would be if Like Crispin Porter did this work instead."
Like Nonexistent, like all their other work?
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I love the look of this car
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Hey, its John Abruzzi from Prison Break and the creepy guy from Fargo and also the dude from a million other movies.
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These commercials are awesome! I hope they keep going with this campaign!!
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'Ooh, snap' and 'It's definitely sucking' are my favorite lines. Love the commercials and can't stop watching them. I went to their site and the car is awesome, definitely on my wish list. VW, German engineering in the house, y'all !!!
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These ads are hilarious, I actually stop what I'm doing to watch them. Instant classics, pure humor.
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Oh my god.
These commercials or the greatest. Even though now everyone is making fun of me and everyone in our German class. Just like 'representing deutchland...' and the whole 'vw' gang sign thing. but its all so great.
Oh snap.
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Representing doichland ya.
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Owrd yall! These commercials are off the chain! Wow! The flame is now the LAME!!!!! lol. These commercials need to be the craps from now on! These bring in good money! Okay, on the real side... ungansta, they are good attention-getters, and very modern-day.
They are very catchy and well written! Good job to whomever may have written the script! It;s very... interesting!
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Absolutely the funniest commercials I've seen in a long time. They should have premiered during the Superbowl.
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I adore these commericals, super clever! I had no idea that was the same guy from Prision Break (great show!) until my son pointed it out, He looks so different!
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These commercials rock, that is it.
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Best ad idea since we had 'Joe Isuzu' around. I also think this guy in the ads was on "Seinfeld" episode where George was trying to move the Frogger game macine without losing its power supply. Who is the female, though?
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Just wanted to give credit where due... the German wannabe in the VW commercials is the same guy from Fargo and that Seinfeld episode. Also many other great pieces of work. His name is Peter Stormore... he is great in these commercials, I love it!
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Representing Deutschland!
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What is up with these poseurs? Stupid, stupid, stupid. "Time to unpimp the awt-a?" No, no, no, no, NO!
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The German guy is also the played the Russian cosmonaut in Armageddon. Peter Stormare
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The unpimp your ride spots are honestly the worst ads I have seen in a very long time. Just bad, predictable work. Wanted more from Crispen. Definitely a disappointment. VW's marketing director (from Mini) should be at the very least, unpimped.
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I love these ads - hilarious! I hope there are more of them to come.
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Whats up? Just say Vaat. Fantastic ads. I send them to all my friends and am trying to talk my wife into letting veedub in the house.
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Yup, for those of us who ask 'WTF?' when we see a massive wing grafted to a Civic, or wonder why you need a six inch exhaust pipe for a piss 1.6 liter wheeze box. These morons try to race my real German car... silly.
Until the road opens and they decide 125 mph is too fast. My car sits... theirs don't.
German engineering in der Haus... ya !
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These are the greatest commercials ever made! Every time they're on I have to watch. I love the look on the German guy's face every time he says: "Time to un-pimp the auto". LOL. Great stuff. More need to be made.
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These commercials make me want to buy a V-Dub, fo real. I can't stop laughing every time that I see them.
German engineering in da house.
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HAHA! It's Peter Stormare! He ROCKS in these ads! :-O Knew it directly when I saw him! Being a Swede I know how to pronounce his last name correctly!
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German? What the heck r u guys talking about? He is from Sweden! Just coz he says a few German phrases!
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OMG!!!! I love the commercials!!!!! These babies are great. As a Volkswagen Scirocco owner and lover I always love to see the death of a Honda or other non-German import piece of crap! VETCH THIS BEOTCH!
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I love that german guy... Makes me want to move to Germany and drive a VW foe shore.
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"Vee juhst droppt it like it's hhot..."
Hysterical! And who could forget Peter Stormore in The Big Lebowski?
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These commercials are refreshing, creative and hilarious, and the best I've seen in a long time. I can't stop laughing at them, and I wish they were on TV more often. Anyone thinking they're "bad" or "stupid", needs to seriously lighten up and get a sense of humor! V-Dub!!
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How could anyone think these commercials are not funny, witty and psychologically complex. Hip and off-beat "grown-up" totally getting over on clueless, slacker kids... What forty plusser wouldn't love it?!
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Who's the girl? This forty-pusher LOVES the new VW commercials! How DE-original! Bravo to VW's ad house for getting Peter Stormare and... who is his blond German scientist sidekick? Wow! I love them... great job to the writer, director and talent! Ooooooo - snap!
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These ads are great. I love the lines: "You get an F..." and "We just dropped it like it's hot!". So hilarious.
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I too love these commercials. "The German Guy" as you guys are calling him IS hilarious. It was even more funny to me when The Big Labowski came on tv yesterday and "The German Guy" was on there. Ironically, he talked the same and offered the same since of German pimp humor. Check it out if you missed it.
VEE DUB en zee houze!!!
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Veeeee Duuuuub! I love these commercials. Whenever they come on the TV, I always laugh really hard. Being the owner of a VW, I definitely agree that VW "holds down the engineering tip Ya'll!"
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All I got to say is VW just dropped it like its hott!
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I seriously cant stop watching them. I've already watched them like 3 times today! I especially love the sick joy he takes in wrecking peoples cars.
Time to un pimp ze auto!
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So how DO you pronounce "Stormare"?
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Really cool ads... memorable, laughable, un-stop-watching-it-able.
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From a marketing point of view these commercials = perfection. They are effective in branding the new Volkswagen line. This coming from a Corvette owner. Great concept, VW.
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Great commercials. Don't know if the German commercials of the other 'Peter' also available, check it here.
Translation (names probably wrong):
/court/
u got rakim, jahir an kir walman
peter comes 100% to us
peter is my brother
yo peter
wait stop it
hey say also somethin barry ..
we got peter
yes sir!
we give u rakim
ey rakim
we dont want rakim
forget it
we give u jamal, the best man in the team, end of it
u get rakim .. take rakim
we dont want rakim
why dont u want rakim
no, cause ... i get peter
/peter at car/
hey peter
keep that for the game baby
hey do that again
/peter driving away/
pete pete pete
hey peter
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Although these ads are funny, in the end they perpetuate a stereotype of Germans as being foolish, eccentric and frivolous - as though they were all like Mike Myers in the SNL 'Sprockets' skit.
For me this doesn't sell me on Volkswagen's products, and seems to be disrespectful to the brilliant German engineers who design their cars. Just my opinion...
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I got all three down loaded on my PC so good for a laugh. Vee Dub in da hause ya Ha HAA HAAAAA!
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Doug, go get some schnapps and lighten up.
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he's also the underground eye surgeon
(Dr. Solomon somebody) who changed
out Tom Cruise's eyes in "The Minority
Report"
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VW Man-in-white for President!
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