(eerie music)
- That might be the only scary commercial I've ever seen
in my whole life.
Back in the olden days before YouTube,
we had things called TVs.
And on those TVs, we had commercials.
And there have been some weird commercials,
especially in a little place called Europe,
which I like to call, "Weird America."
They freaking drink warm beer
and put mayonnaise on their french fries.
So, today we are gonna watch some of the weirdest
European car commercials
that our producers could find.
Apparently, some of these are fun and silly,
and some are downright creepy.
Those are the ones I'm looking forward to.
I'm James. And this "The D-List".
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- So without further ado, let's jump in
to the ice cold waters of the Netherlands
and check out this Volkswagen Golf commercial from 2010.
I'm a huge Volkswagen fan.
They have a history of great ads.
I'm really looking forward to this one.
Off the bag, got that Mark Three Golf.
This is like my story.
This is this James Pumphrey story.
What?
Why was the dad so excited that she was an old lady?
Is it 'cause she like drove it soft?
Or is it because he thinks that
she doesn't know what she's got,
they can take advantage of her.
She's old! She's so (beep) old.
She's stupid.
Also I'm already a bit confused
because this is a nineties car in a commercial from 2010.
(car engine revving)
She's revving it.
(car wheels skidding)
The dad was stoked because she was old
and he thought that she was gonna baby the car
but turns out grandma has a lead foot.
Not every old lady is as reliable.
Fortunately, each golf.
That dad has some communication problems with his son.
He's very weird.
It's like the old lady is there.
she can see him going like.
Like I said in the beginning,
this ad is interesting because it's more of a heritage ad.
It was made in 2010, features a car from the nineties.
So I think they're really selling
like Volkswagen reliability.
And they're saying like "You can rip on this fun little car
and it's still gonna be good for years to come."
All in all, I love Volkswagen commercials.
This is a great one.
It's obviously worked on me.
I own that red car, essentially.
Moving on to the next commercial.
This is for the Ford Sportka.
The guys have put together a list of fun facts
for each commercial for me to read before I watch it.
And the second one for this one is,
"Ad agency made several versions
that were extremely graphic."
And then in parentheses, "cat decapitation."
And then for some reason,
the Royal Racing Pigeon Association
asked Ford to withdrawal this ad.
So it's not a cat decapitation video,
but they do something weird to racing pigeons, apparently.
Ford Ka.
It's such a weird little guy.
(James laughing)
Okay, it's not like that's a real pigeon
getting hit by a real car.
It's CGI.
I'm not sure what they were trying to say with this though.
The normal Ford Ka is normal,
but the Ford Sportka will punch a pigeon in the face
and apparently it will decapitate a cat.
I think this commercial is awesome,
is very funny.
Those Royal Pigeon Racer guys need to loosen up
a little bit, rubbin' his race in, pal, very effective.
I already wanted a Ford car
because of the association with Colin McRae.
And guess what?
I want one even more now.
Moving on, next up we got a commercial
for the tried and true Honda Accord,
one of the greatest cars ever made.
This commercial is also from 2003,
good year for commercials, apparently.
So this would make it the seventh gen Honda Accord.
The commercial took four months to design and shoot
which is quite long and 70 attempts.
So I'm gonna assume that those are takes to get it right.
Oh, I remember this commercial.
(metal clanking)
Oh, I didn't know this is British.
It's a Rube Goldberg machine.
(machine whirring) (water splashing)
Oh creepy.
I've seen a lot of Rube Goldberg machine videos,
and this is one of better ones I've seen.
(upbeat music)
Rapper's delight.
- [Announcer] Isn't it nice when things just work?
Yeah.
I was kind of, I was with it.
It's a little boring, honestly.
I've seen this a million times.
This was a good one.
But like at the end of the day
if I'm a British guy with a family
this isn't the reason that I'm gonna buy an Accord.
And even like the attitude of it
is just kinda like (beep) ish.
Like, you know, like mean nerds.
That's the vibe I get from this commercial is like,
isn't it nice when stuff just works?
It took you 70 takes.
So this is three commercials from different countries.
We're gonna see one from Chile, one from Finland
and one from Russia, all for the Lada Samurai.
Nothing scarier than a Russian Samurai.
- [Man] Samara.
- Oh, sorry.
The Lada Samara.
(Spanish)
Oh, no. It's in Spanish and there's no subtitles.
Damn, that's strong.
(Spanish)
Straight up Vin Dieseled it.
(Spanish)
He isn't a buff dude, he's little uh.
Oh my God.
What are they telling me with this commercial?
(Spanish)
(James laughing)
(Spanish)
That is a sick graphic.
(Spanish)
Usually like, okay.
When I buy a car, one of the things I don't look for
is whether or not it can be picked up
and turned over by a man.
Okay. If anything, this might deter me
from buying a Lada Samara.
I parked my car on the street.
I street parked,
I'm running some errands or whatever.
One of my many many enemies finds my car
and just Vin Diesels it and flips it upside down.
I want my car stuck to the ground, thank you very much Lada.
Based on this commercial, if someone was like,
"Hey, I'm considering buying a Lada Samara,
what do you think?"
I'd be like, "No".
Let's check out a commercial for the same car
from Finland in 1987.
♪ Samara ♪
Oh, there's a girl in the trunk.
♪ Samara Samara ♪
Oh, the whole crew is getting on it.
♪ Samara Samara ♪
Oh, that's her boyfriend up there,
signed picture of her boyfriend?
♪ Samara. ♪
When we decided to make a video
about weird European car commercials,
this is exactly what I pictured.
I don't know what the hell is going on.
It's all style, no substance.
I guess this lady like sleeps in her trunk
but she's also on a set.
So we're breaking the fourth wall.
Is her name Samara? Did they name the car after her?
So many questions? Uh, okay.
We got one more.
This is from the motherland, you know,
where the Lada is from, Russia.
So a Russian commercial from 1993,
this is right after the Berlin wall fell.
This was right after the USSR has broken up.
I'm very curious. Very curious.
(upbeat music)
Oh God. (laughs)
This is 100% a Russian car commercial from 1993.
♪ Position number two. ♪
♪ Position number ♪
What is position number two?
The Lada one has been very confusing to me.
Next up, we have a band commercial
from 2011 for the Hyundai Veloster.
Now we like the Veloster here,
we've made some Veloster commercials ourselves.
So I'm very curious to see what ended up getting banned
from Dutch TV in 2011.
(foreign language)
(suspenseful music)
Okay, you're creepy.
(suspenseful music)
(foreign language)
(tires screeching)
(foreign language)
(suspenseful music)
Oh there's no door on that side.
(foreign language)
(suspenseful music)
That was legit scary.
That is the only,
and that might be the only scary commercial I've ever seen
in my whole life.
It was legitimately scary.
If you don't know
the Hyundai Veloster is a three-doored car.
It's a very weird, the B pillar
on each side is in a different spot.
I think this commercial is saying
that the reason that they did that
is so you can't get out and get hit by traffic.
Very well produced, entertaining.
The messaging gets lost a little bit for me.
and not only because it's in Dutch.
We have finally reached our last commercial,
that is weird from Europe, the weirdest continent.
This is another Hyundai commercial.
All it says is toy boy.
It's originally aired in Sweden, Belgium and France in 2001,
named by Gay.com and Planetout.com
as the gayest commercial of all time.
Gay.com, that's like the gay website.
(upbeat music)
Hey.
(foreign language)
(mumbling) like French song.
(foreign language)
Oh put the seat back.
Oh it's her husband. "I'm picking up your dry cleaning."
(foreign language)
Oh, they're both unfaithful.
They're both miserable in their relationship
so they're both having secret affairs.
He's living a lie.
"We're jovial look" and infidelity,
like talk to each other, having the tough conversation.
If neither of you are happy
like obviously something's going on in the marriage.
Neither of you are fulfilled.
Not even that gay.
So, I've seen gayer.
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