TV commercials depicting "mountain climbers"

[ShadowsPapa]

Are we that gullible about products being advertised today?

Yes, and have been for decades. It used to be called "Madison Avenue" where the major marketing and advertising companies were - and their psychologists knew more about us than we knew, so the MA marketing firms could sell you what you don't even need, simply because some cool square-jawed guy with sunglasses and a 6:00 shadow of a beard looked cool using it.

But on the vehicle commercials, if you are REALLY fast and have great vision, you can often see the disclaimer - professional driver, closed course and so on.
Some commercials used to show trucks pulling semis, trains and so on - meh, rolling load on the flat? Big deal (but I'd not want that truck after they used it for that - transmission or clutch time)

If you note some of the trails they are driving up to get to the top of the mountain - pretty flat and rockless other than the extreme grade. Heck, there's even bicycle races up Pike's Peak.
I've yet to see a vehicle in the commercial actually being on anything other than a decent path that even my mother's old Valiant could have made.

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[AmosMoses]

My favorite is the suburu commercials. The things these commercial think tanks come up with are hilarious to me.

 

[Jeepasaurus_Rex]

My favorite is the suburu commercials. The things these commercial think tanks come up with are hilarious to me.

I really enjoy the Subaru commericals. They are usually sweet family type ones, or funny ones. I remember Jeep made one a few years ago that was really sweet too

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My favorite commercial -

 

[Jeepasaurus_Rex]

My favorite commercial -

haha, I hadn't seen that before. That was funny and cute.
Also that song always reminds me of O Brother Where Art Thou

 

[ShadowsPapa]

haha, I hadn't seen that before. That was funny and cute.
Also that song always reminds me of O Brother Where Art Thou

I like the part near the end
"whoa, that's incredible"
The guy thinks he's talking about the truck.
"no, I meant the cat"
And he responds "it's like nobody's seen a cat before" while Walter digs the guy out of the snow.

 

[camodog]

TBF, any 4wd can make it up here, but I don’t see a lot of Kia’s or Subarus at 14k’

 

[Rusty PW]

Got a stupid friend that has a VW Tourrag that he overlands with. He's been in a few places that surprised me.

 

[NachoRuby]

Got a stupid friend that has a VW Tourrag that he overlands with. He's been in a few places that surprised me.

The Touareg is very similar to the cayenne. We've seen that they are pretty tough. The platform, especially on the earlier ones, is near identical.

 

[SnazzGlad]

 

[Summitsearcher]

It’s called giving the general public wayyyyyyyy too much credit. Influence is strong in this one.

Under the “Hold My Beer” category.

 

[330K06TJ]

My favorite commercial -

My favorite commercial -

This is my favorite Jeep Commercial . . .

Jeep Mountaintop Commercial

 

[Blue Ridge]

Just an example of why Marketers should be careful with what they promote their products as!



While Black Bear is not the hardest trail it is not for anything other than a true 4x4.

Spoken really quickly at end of ad: "Professional driver, do not attempt"

 

[Orange01z28]

The fact is most vehicles can do more than their drivers can

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