Here's mine, where's yours?
Ahhhhh. Every now and then you just have to take a moment and give thanks for the stupidity of your adversary.
Chevrolet is introducing a brand new, gas-guzzling Tahoe SUV which gets "an amazing 20 mpg." Yep, in an era in which other cars are making more than twice that figure, Antarctica is melting and the Greenland Ice Sheet is about to fall into the sea, that's amazing alright. What's MORE amazing is they've created an advertising contest in which anyone can make your own tv ad. What? They just never considered that they'd be set upon by a howling pack of outraged eco-hacktivists bent on culture jamming their little power-truck lovefest? Golly! That wasn't very smart! Let's all toddle over to Chevy's House and put some tiretracks in their fun. We're calling it the HeavyontheChevy campaign.
(Thanks, Gillo!)
- Heavy on the Chevy #1
- Heavy on the Chevy #2
- Heavy on the Chevy #3
- Heavy on the Chevy #4
- Heavy on the Chevy #5
- Heavy on the Chevy #6
Richard Hanson
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Great, just when I thought I was going to get some sleep, I decide to see what Eco Geek has been up to, lol!
Half an hour later, I've made several ads, giggled at the ones I've seen here, and finally just decided to post my own.
Click my name.
(And thanks, Chevy, for the bandwidth and the fun.)
Posted by: Plutonium Page | March 31, 2006 01:23 AM
quite proud of mine - perhaps too much swearing but a few four letter words never hurt anyone :-)
click on my name
Posted by: Lisa | March 31, 2006 02:25 AM
Woo Hoo!!! Rockin ads, kids!
Me, I was just reminded of that age old bit of wisdom: never, ever, EVER, edit your Movable Type CSS before your coffee has fully kicked in. I just killed my main template and had to piece it together from bits of backup scattered hither and yon.
:-(
Posted by: Brian | March 31, 2006 06:51 AM
So the equation is:
Brian - caffeine = blog nerd disaster?
D'oh!
Hope things are going better.
And Lisa, your ad is hilarious. If Cheney can say it, so can we, right? lol!
Posted by: Plutonium Page | March 31, 2006 08:51 AM
Here's another three, one environmental, the others just plain silly!
#1
#2 (Along the same lines as Richard Hanson's extremely funny one!)
#3
Posted by: Jessica | March 31, 2006 09:58 AM
here's mine
Posted by: Jen | March 31, 2006 06:19 PM
oooh
here's mine
Chevy Ad
Posted by: Adam | March 31, 2006 06:32 PM
heyalright
Posted by: heyalright | March 31, 2006 07:52 PM
Haha, i was going to try and make a serious ad, figuring that everyone else would do eco-ads so i could win the prize. Turns out the price is a trip the country music awards, a baseball game, or Jackson's hole (wyoming?). Way to be Chevy. Keep the ads coming, they're terrible... terribly funny :)
Posted by: Blarg | March 31, 2006 08:41 PM
!
Posted by: Nihility | March 31, 2006 09:07 PM
Mine's an hommage to my brother who shipped out this week to Iraq.
Posted by: doctortina | March 31, 2006 09:22 PM
Here's my anti-ad:
Posted by: zoip | March 31, 2006 10:18 PM
Here's one that is more in the spirit of how automakers think. In other words this actually could be one of their commercials.
Posted by: Matt | March 31, 2006 11:17 PM
My anti-ad has to do with something that's always bothered me about the "size wars".
Posted by: Sean McBride | March 31, 2006 11:52 PM
Here is mine
Posted by: EMSmedicWA | March 31, 2006 11:59 PM
try this on for size.
Posted by: Matias | April 1, 2006 02:36 AM
YO
Posted by: STRAY | April 1, 2006 03:04 AM
3 more
1
2
3
Posted by: Sara | April 1, 2006 04:19 AM
Thank you. I had fun.
Posted by: malcolm | April 1, 2006 06:02 AM
You all have the wrong angle. It's tough being an SUV driver!
Click my name.
Posted by: Frank | April 1, 2006 06:27 PM
This was a blast to make. I just pretended our president was driving the SUV.
Posted by: Kalibardo | April 1, 2006 11:26 PM
And mine
Posted by: me | April 1, 2006 11:26 PM
Whoops, sorry I had HTML turned off. Switched it on and fixed all these outstanding links!!!
I'll never be able to look at a Tahoe again without laughing!!!
Posted by: Brian | April 3, 2006 07:16 AM
Dance with the Devil
Posted by: Mark | April 3, 2006 01:03 PM
Ah, Greenland
Show Me the Pictures
Brokeback Tahoe
Posted by: Mark | April 3, 2006 01:09 PM
Look at a Tahoe?? Don't need to look when you can smell it...
Posted by: gillo | April 3, 2006 10:19 PM
btw, many more ads are available, now that I had the chance to approve all the comments....
Posted by: gillo | April 3, 2006 10:50 PM
here's mine ... click on name.
Note they are now being reviewed but you have an opportunity to email to a friend before you submit. That gives you the URL.
Posted by: somuchfun | April 4, 2006 02:01 AM
Another effort. Click on name.
Posted by: somuchfun | April 4, 2006 02:17 AM
Hey guys, I started a site where we can rank all of the commercials courtesy of Chevy!
anyone can submit, and vote, but I can't get all the articles myself (too many) Nor can I get the word out myself.
Please let everyone know. I think it'll be great to have a ranked list where everyone votes on the best.
heavyonthechevy.crispynews.com
Posted by: heavyonthechevy | April 4, 2006 03:51 AM
Wow, leave it to a big company like Chevy to forget that the internet is populated by people who hate big corporations.
http://www.chevyapprentice.com/view.php?country=us&uniqueid=318a1d06-1542-1029-98eb-0013724ff5a7
Posted by: MikeMike | April 4, 2006 06:02 PM
Another ad -- this was meant to be funny -- not offensive. So if you take offense to this -- erhm -- sorry. (not really)
Click Here
Posted by: Keeyith | April 4, 2006 09:33 PM
Bitch's & Tahoe's
White Man
Help is just a phone call away.
Posted by: Rich B | April 5, 2006 06:20 PM
funny one
Posted by: Jo lee | April 6, 2006 04:33 AM
http://tinyurl.com/gdvlr
Check out the commercial terre created for the all-new 2007 Chevy Tahoe.
Think you could do better? Think you're up to the task? Then take a shot at the Chevy Apprentice Challenge and create your own commercial...
Posted by: terre | April 8, 2006 11:47 AM