When you get an oil change, make sure that you drop off your car at a reputable company. Otherwise, your car might end up like this Chevy Impala that literally erupts into fire when the technicians start the car. The video is featured on BoingBoing.
It’s ironic that ‘American’ car companies like Chevy and Ford are outsourcing more and more of the building of their vehicles to Mexico and Canada, while Toyota, Hyundai, and even BMW are actually opening factories in America, hiring American workers. The line between ‘American’ and ‘imported’ is quickly blurring.
To bring light to this fact, Hyundai focused on Americanism and inspiration for their Super Bowl commercial. When a Hyundai designer gets stumped on a new idea, the real employees at the new Montgomery, Alabama Hyundai plant sing the classic Rocky theme to inspire and motivate their co-worker.
StuntBusters from the cable car channel SPEED took a super slow motion camera that can record at 1,000 Frames Per Second and blew up a car. The results are a glorious mix of fire and flames that is featured on Jalopnik and TheAwesomer.
All big brand companies have big hype surrounding their multi-million dollar Super Bowl commercials. One of the most talked about is Volkwagen, especially after their commercial from last year became the most talked about of 2011. For this year, they kept the Star Wars theme, but somehow mixed in cute dogs. Only time will tell if this year’s will be as big of a hit as the one from last.
Toyota stuck with original humor for their big game ad instead of hiring big time celebrities like other car companies have. Toyota says they already reinvented the Camry, so they thought of a bunch of other cool reinventions, like police that give you massages, a DMV with ice cream and games, and even drapes made of pizza. Genius!
