Posted on 11/21/2024 7:37:05 PM PST by grundle
Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH
Jaguar commercial from 40 years ago vs one from today:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJX05mJ8tz4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rLtFIrqhfng
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10:32 PM · Nov 21, 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gR7EYjcP8
I’ve already watched this a couple of times to cleanse out the new one. This ad from 2015 wasn’t just a great ad, it would have made a great *movie*.
Jaguar should have stuck with
Sterling, Cooper, Draper & Pryce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeUPIyaU3FU
Best I can tell is that Jaguar wants to save the planet by not selling cars buy funny shaped and colorful dresses.
But, not buy 😱
Ok. Now I get it (the Musk/Jag brouhaha).
I remember that. I lusted after the 300ZX after that ad.
I’m not seeing anything wrong with well executed V-12s.
YMMV.
I remember reading that Nissan’s ad agency did too good a job on that ad - many people couldn’t remember that Nissan was the product.
Jaguar used to make the most beautiful cars. Their engines were for crap, but the rest of the car was impeccable. I owned a ‘72 XJ6. Absolutely adored it. Constantly overheated though. We even installed a fan inside the hood to blow air on the battery. Didn’t help much. But was a dream car in every other respect.
I haven’t seen that movie in ages. It was very funny, but also VERY blunt. Their take on Porsche was similarly raunchy.
Faguar
“Those guys are faaags!” Jeff Spicoli
The new ad is like a fever dream from The Fifth Element.
40 years ago Jaguar was making some of its worst, and most unreliable autos. My wife had a 1986 XJ6-L. It was an incredibly solid, safe car, but so unreliable that the independent Jaguar service specialist not only sent her Christmas cards, but birthday greetings. They were making a fortune off of the terrible build quality and general unreliability of Jaguars in those days, just before Ford made the blunder of purchasing them. When Ford tired of the $ bleeding they sold them to Tata Motors, and they seem to have brought them around. But now this.
When Ford bought them I hoped that Ford would go in heavy and overhaul Jaguar’s engineering and supplier chain, but alas, no.
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