http://youtube.com/watch?v=CrvFo2VosO0

 

I just saw that during the NC game. Awesome! That's the kind of tone that Chevy needs with the Malibu vs. Camry.

Gotta love the M-B AMG C63 commercial too. Sounds mean!

 

I saw it during the game as well. Awesome commerical. It actually put a smile on my face.

 

the G8 is nice. I'm over 6ft tall and built like an overweight offensive lineman. I had no problems sitting in the backseat of the G8. The front seat feels better than my wife's 04 impala. I should've sat in the passenger seat to compare, but I forgot. THe front passenger seat of most cars is just very uncormfortable to me. This includes the S-class mercedes. The B-pillar usually hits right where my shoulder and arm want to be. I don't notice it on the driver's side because I'm using my left arm to drive. Damn, I wish I would've sat in the passenger front of that car...

 

Awesome commercial, I saw during the game too, along with the spyhunter commercial, in HD.....Finally some good commercials coming from GM.

 

This is *exactly* what GM needs. Something to stir people up. Something controversial. Something with attitude.

Even if the YouTube tards are saying, "ya cain't compair a Pontiwreck to a Bee Ehmm DoubbleYewh," and "lol, American cars are only fast in a straight line," that's perfectly ok. They're talking. This may be the most attention they've paid to an American car since 1982. And that's a good thing.

 

Very good marketing and a really well done commercial - it'll really get people's attention... that's for sure. But that commercial, from a factual perspective, impressed me about as much as the stupid truck commercials that pick out a couple of very specific and select stats where they're better than the competition and then base their entire superiority on those stats as they present them to the public.

It sounds good to the casual listener but any intelligent consumer will know there's a lot more to the equation.

Let's not forget that Pontiac very likely could have made the exact same commercial targeted toward GM's own Caddy STS and it would have made about as much sense.

I'd like to do a back to back drive of a G8 and a 550i and see if they feel remotely comparable. My guess is it'd be a very apples to oranges driving experience with the 550i being a far more composed and polished vehicle and the G8 being far more beastly performance-wise and of course a far greater bargain.

 

Good point. And another reason for GM to bring back Autoshow In Motion.

 

That was terrific.

 

Then the commercial worked.

 

I guess... but it doesn't take much to make me want to test drive a car... if I could spend an entire weekend or two just test driving car after car to develop an experience-backed opinion of them, I'd do it. Even the 'crappy' ones.

 

Great commercial. Very good idea comparing it to the 5 series.

Don't forget, the commercial compliments some of the strengths of the BMW also.

Dan

 

Only problem is, the dealers around here aren't even allowing test drives (see my latest post in a related thread). Kinda hard to compare a G8 to anything when the Pontiac dealers are acting like they have Bugatti Veyrons in their showroom. On a more positive note, the BMW dealer (that, by the way, had no problem letting me test drive several cars that stickered for significantly more than any G8 on the planet) performed a software update on my 335i and it now has the throttle response I knew it was always capable of. I was seriously thinking of trading the 335i for a G8, but now it seems the Pontiac dealers may have done me a great favor by being conceited jerks. Hmmm, now that I think of it, isn't that what the BMW dealers are famous for? Ironic, no?

 

You tube comments I wanna bury my foot in Dracco73's [censored]

 

For the commercial to talk about the 5-Series luxurious interior with their only comeback being about legroom was a telling cop out, and I notice that they only showed it for a split second.