We don't have great hope that Audi will export the new-generation A6 wagon to the United States. Our doom-and-gloom sentiment has nothing to do with the existence of the A7, and everything to do with commercials like this one. Robotic hummingbirds sipping sweet low-sulfur nectar from refueling nozzles. Soundtrack by a deceased American opera star we haven't heard of but should have. And it's all directed by a British director we haven't heard of who has evidently been allowed to make exactly one feature-length film, which happened to star Michael Caine.
Call it esoteric if you went to liberals arts school, or just call it weird, but it's kind of great. And it's the kind of commercial Audi would never air in the U.S., because, well, because ____________________.
agentorange says:
01:08 PM, 10/ 4/11
____ there are no people in the ad and it does not contain the required EPA numbers, even though we all know they are BS.
altimadude05 says:
01:19 PM, 10/ 4/11
"Call it esoteric if you went to liberals arts school, or just call it weird"
Politics gets into everything these days. Hehehe.
jrcarch says:
02:41 PM, 10/ 4/11
This ad is great but makes me sad for two reasons: 1) we won't get the Avant (and it's crazy new 450~lbft diesel) in the states and 2) those awesome traffic signals with the red/yellow stage - I know they are reserved for people to put their cars into gear but we could use all the reminders we could get here in LA
ralphhightower says:
03:50 PM, 10/ 4/11
I wonder what the guys on Top Gear will have to say about the commercial.
siarizona says:
04:37 PM, 10/ 4/11
________ because it requires people to pay attention and interpret what they are seeing, then make a leap to say, "Yes, I'd like to drive a lighter, smaller car, instead of a gas-hogging behemoth."
Also enjoyed the link to the New Zealand ad for the Toyota HiLux. Wish we had that with a small diesel engine instead of the ugly, outdated Tacoma.
kurtamaxxxguy says:
08:35 PM, 10/ 4/11
Well, supposedly Audi is bringing the A4 Avant Allroad to the USA. That is a surprise.
cobryson says:
09:13 PM, 10/ 4/11
@jrcarch I was in Switzerland a few weeks ago and was confused as hell at the Red/Yellow stage light sequence. Only after an enraged Swiss banker's wife in her Ranger Rover Supercharged honked at me at 3 consecutive lights did I decide that Red/Yellow meant "haul ass".
cr_driver says:
09:08 AM, 10/ 5/11
""Yes, I'd like to drive a lighter, smaller car, instead of a gas-hogging behemoth."
Hahaha. Just yesterday someone who just bought a new Jeep SRT-8 -albeit a 2011- was coming and going all over the place around here.