Dumbest car ads ever appear in Slovakia

This bizarrely ill-conceived "Ford" campaign was submitted to Ads of The World by JANDL, in Bratislava, Slovakia. The comments immediately questioned whether a venerable old brand like Ford would ever approve such weird and offensive creative.

They didn't. According to JANDL's site, the campaign was signed off by "Bratislava Summit Motors, Ford distributor in Slovakia." I don't imagine the brand mothership will be pleased.

Especially since one of them is blatantly racist:

There is also video:

Ford to minivan drivers: "You suck"

Can anyone really tell the difference between SUVs and Minivans anymore? In 2012, Car and Driver announced the 2012 Ford C-Max as "Ford’s latest attempt at a minivan." Two years later, it's a "car" in the United States, and a "compact minivan" in Israel.

And apparently, Ford is willing to completely turn its back on the minivan market (in Israel, anyway) with this anti-SUV campaign by BBR Saatchi & Saatchi.

See the other two, totally redundant, ads in the campaign at Ads of The World.

Ford's cane toad snuff porn ad: would PETA approve?

I left out "autoerotic bukkake"

So this is a little weird. But give JWT Melbourne the benefit of some context: cane toads are a blight on their land.



But will it sell cars?

Adverblog quoted a YouTube comment, “Entertaining but I know more now about frog secretion then I do about the new falcon.”

Still, I enjoyed it. I guess I'm just perverted that way.

The Chevy ad Ford didn't want you to see

According to Adrants, Ford tried to have this cheeky ad pulled from yesterday's Super Bowl lineup for obvious reasons.

Chevy, having spent some serious coing on production, refused. And we all had a good chuckle.




The only question the ad left me with was this:

When will they realize there are no women?

Oh, wait...



That will end well...

Who's recycling who?

Back in February, I told you about a campaign for the Canadian Urban Transit Association that had been months in the making. If you live in a major Canadian urban area, you've probably seen it in bus shelters around your town:



But, just last week, a coworker sent me a link to this initiative on Ford's site:



Now, I have no idea which concept was conceived, approved, or published first. The fact is, this sort of thing happens all the time. We creatives are not that much different from each other, and when a nice, simple idea presents itself it's hard to ignore it. We try to imagine if we've seen it before. We Google the headlines. But when you come right down to it, coincidences happen.

What makes this one sort of weird is that it is essentially for the same cause — Retire Your Ride — but while one wants you to trade your old car in for a new one, the other (ours) suggests you get a bus pass.

I also think ours is a more elegant solution. But I'm biased.