For example--how many of you would ever load your truck to the absolute max, then assuming you could find it, would drive with the load up a giant teeter-totter to see if the brakes worked on the other side? Not only would I not try this, I've never even seen a giant teeter-totter
Or this one....your driving down the road, you see a huge steel superstructure with 2 massive swinging I-beams.....so what do you? Well, of course you try to drive between them and stop then go.
How many times will you load the back of your F-150 via a helicopter dropping a giant crate in it from 50 feet up in the air?
Do you regularly drive backwards through cones at speed?
Do you have two giant bulldozers to "crush" your truck while you're still in it?
Do you really need to hang the truck up by one of it's bed bolts?
Listen, 30-45 second commercials are designed to get your attention to take a further look at the product. You really don't need to read so much into it. Had Ford's advertising contractors thought up those commercials and used the F-150, this board would be full of how great they are! If the F-150 has 380+HP and 400+b ft. of torque you'd all be beatin' your chest (breasts for some of you). If the F-150 had a 10.5 ring gear and huge-mongous brakes you'd be screaming of it's capabilities.
On paper the Tundra is an impressive truck. In person, it's okay as well (subjective). The truck really does moves out and given the swept area of the brakes that rival even the Super Duty, I'd say it will stop a load quite well, too. (I didn't drive it loaded.)
Those commercials are a hell of a lot better than Ford and Mercury commercials. At least the Toyota Commercials have something to do with the truck. Unlike some country dude singing a song about Ford. WTF? BTW "You gotta put Mercury on your list..."
Talk about fantasy, there is another add on Y tube linked in the 4.9 threads, showing Ford claiming 20 city 30 highway mpg for the 300 and 4 speed manual OD. Maybe the EPA dyno was tilted downhill when they did that test?
You REALLY have to have a set of peepers to read the "Do this $%&* and your warranty is void" on all the ads......
I hated those commercials, even more lately since I ended up hearing the song all the way through on the radio once, its what I call good rock & roll, but they killed it to use it on a commercial
Besides, calling a chevy "like a rock" is as acurate as calling Boris Yeltsin sober. I saw a chevy commercial recently that showed it driving toward the camera in slow-mo over some small jumps and you can see the different parts of the bumper, grill and hood flexing all over the place, looked like it was coming apart.
Chrysler killed another rock classic tune recently, I wonder who will sell out next.
Lately I don't pay much attention to car commercials anymore, they are all so pointless that I just tune them out. Show me an ad for a company backing their product even if its 20 years old and still earning its keep every day towing, hauling and still firing up every time in the cold early morning hours and maybe I'll turn the MUTE button off and look up the product.
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I hated watching those... mainly cause at the time I was driving a camaro. the only thing about that car that was like a rock was the interior fit and finish.
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I wish that I had a copy of the commercial a few years back where the F-250 pulled the Chevy, and the boat out of the water. The commercial didn't last too long, but I liked the lines that said something like this:
The girl said, "I can't believe it sank"
The FORD driver was rolling up the tow rope, and said, "Like a rock"
NOW that was funny, I don't care who you are !!
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