tundra commercials

[v65]

The latest tundra commercial is pretty crazy, actually they all are. I didn't think they were real at first, that stuntman has huge cajones!

 

[Huck Fonda]

That's f'ing NUTS!

I remember reading pre intro that Toyota was going to spend an unprecedented amount of money on this single model campaign. I believe they said more than was spent on the launch of the entire Lexus brand.

They put a lot of eggs in that basket...looks like it's working though.

 

[stormrider]

call me skeptic but I do not believe that the Tundra does anything more than any other full size pick up. Toyota just has better computer geeks, ad agencies

 

[jestal]

You must be kidding, right...??? Toyota's Tundra truck commercials are simple parlor tricks. Look impressive but any vehicle could do the same stunts in the videos if the video/stunt is preplanned carefully. Do you really think the test driver took off at full throttle toward the edge of the precipice and slammed on the brakes and just "accidentally" stopped 1 foot from the edge or that the stunt illustrates how "good" the Tundra brakes are??? LOL LOL LOL

If you want to see a real Toyota Tundra "commercial" just check out the following. This was a true picture, taken at the Texas State Fair. Toyota was caught bringing in their motorsports display. No stunt here.....LOL. Someone outside GM took the picture and put the verbage on it and circulated it on the internet. GM had nothing to do with it.

Read the name on the trailer and look at what they used to tow their big trailer with. No sort of camera trickery or planning can get a Tundra to tow their own trailer.....LOL.

BTW....their latest commercial trunk stunts are nothing new. Remember the one GM did about 10 years ago where a Blazer was pushed off a tall bridge with a huge bungy cord attached to the trailer hitch? What did it prove related to the real world? Nothing. Spectacular stunt and attention getting but unless you plan on bungy jumping your truck it means absolutely nothing.

 

[dcarver]

Back in the 80's I supported an off-road race factory import race team.

And towed their **** with an 84 Ford F250...

Which still runs and is used today!

 

[v65]

You must be kidding, right...???

No, I'm not. I never said they proved anything, I just think they're cool. To quote the stunt driver, "These are they scariest stunts I have ever done for a commercial". Ok the "for a commercial" qualifies it, so maybe that means nothing. Saatchi has made it very clear that these commercials are in fact real. Personally I drive a Montana, which I like just fine (maybe you help designed it?). Given all that, I think I will go ahead and keep on enjoying their commercials if you don't mind.

 

[odot]

All this being said.....I wonder how my pt cruiser would pit up against the tundra..........

 

[TriggerT]

I watched the latest commercial last night. My fist thought was, "That's F'ing Crazy." My 2nd thought was, I KNOW my F350 Diesel will still out haul that little Toy any day of the week.

 

[v65]

Do you really think the test driver took off at full throttle toward the edge of the precipice and slammed on the brakes and just "accidentally" stopped 1 foot from the edge or that the stunt illustrates how "good" the Tundra brakes are??? LOL LOL LOL

Well yes I do. These commercials are all about timing, you could reproduce them with any vehicle if you knew its performance characteristics. If you are a bracket racer do you try to run your best time every time, or do you shoot for some target time that you know you can make? You shoot for your best time because that is the easiest way to be consistent. So, I would guess that they went WOT and full on the brakes.

 

[kansas transit]

Yeah those commercial's are neat for entertainment value, BUT in the real world i'll keep my 99 f350 with 350,000 miles on it most of them towing something. original tranny, rear, u-joints, axles, turbo and the motor has never been apart, unless you count a water pump at 290,000. I will always buy american( or at least quasi american made) if I can get a comparable product at comparable value. The fjr is my exception, There is no comparision to anything else. :yahoo: Stan

 

[jestal]

Do you really think the test driver took off at full throttle toward the edge of the precipice and slammed on the brakes and just "accidentally" stopped 1 foot from the edge or that the stunt illustrates how "good" the Tundra brakes are??? LOL LOL LOL

Well yes I do. These commercials are all about timing, you could reproduce them with any vehicle if you knew its performance characteristics. If you are a bracket racer do you try to run your best time every time, or do you shoot for some target time that you know you can make? You shoot for your best time because that is the easiest way to be consistent. So, I would guess that they went WOT and full on the brakes.

Well, jeez, from what you say you prove my point. Obviously the stunt is all about timing and the thing is set up so that the truck stops one foot from the edge. You could do this with any vehicle as you said and achieve the same results. So what exactly does it prove?? They didn't just blast off at WOT with the Toyota and slam on the brakes and hope to stop to prove "how good" the truck is. Read what I said. The commercials prove absolutely nothing. They are clever and intertaining, granted, but they prove absolutely nothing about the performance or capability of the truck. They are simply meant to fool people who really don't understand what they are doing. Probably fooling a lot of people from what I gather....

Another good example is how they hang the shipping container from a cable and then the truck takes off and hoists it back to safety.....somehow implying that drawbar pulling capability equates to trailer towing capability. It doesn't. That is why the Tundra in the commercial can hoist that "huge" shipping container back from the brink but yet it cannot tow their own race car trailer....

What is the purpose of the steel doors closing and the Tundra taking off at full throttle and just barely making it thru the closing doors in time...??? An absolute joke but I guess that somebody, somewhere is fooled into believing that the Tundra is the only vehicle that could have POSSIBLY have made it in time.....LOL LOL LOL Personally, if I were in that situation with the doors slaming closed I would rather have a 6.2 Escalade with VVT which would make it thru there LONG before the doors closed.

 

[Huck Fonda]

Just to back up v65 a bit, the ads are entertaining.

I agreee with many of the sentiments which suggest that properly staged, any vehicle can do these things. I think that part is pretty obvious. But the visual dynamic of the ads is pretty damned good, and yes, they are intended to sell trucks, so of course they'll be presented in a way that will appeal to the consumers that don't know any better.

We (I'm guessing most on this thread) would never run out and buy based simply on the ads. That doesn't mean that we can't enjoy them when they come on.

What I enjoy even more is the way the rest of the market jumps on a similar advertising campaign to help "prove" their product is as tough. Is it the Nissan ad that has the chians snapping before the frame bends? DUH! one weak welded link and that one's done, but they're trying, right?

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I watched the latest commercial last night. My fist thought was, "That's F'ing Crazy." My 2nd thought was, I KNOW my F350 Diesel will still out haul that little Toy any day of the week.

okay, the tundra is competition for the F150 right? I know someone with a Peterbuilt that will out haul your F350

 

[kansas transit]

I watched the latest commercial last night. My fist thought was, "That's F'ing Crazy." My 2nd thought was, I KNOW my F350 Diesel will still out haul that little Toy any day of the week.

okay, the tundra is competition for the F150 right? I know someone with a Peterbuilt that will out haul your F350

BILT, Orangevale. PETERBILT. LOL

 

[TriggerT]

I watched the latest commercial last night. My fist thought was, "That's F'ing Crazy." My 2nd thought was, I KNOW my F350 Diesel will still out haul that little Toy any day of the week.

okay, the tundra is competition for the F150 right? I know someone with a Peterbuilt that will out haul your F350

Oh yeah, well my big brother has a C5 that can eat your Perterbuilt X 3. :tease: So there.

 

[kansas transit]

I watched the latest commercial last night. My fist thought was, "That's F'ing Crazy." My 2nd thought was, I KNOW my F350 Diesel will still out haul that little Toy any day of the week.

okay, the tundra is competition for the F150 right? I know someone with a Peterbuilt that will out haul your F350

Oh yeah, well my big brother has a C5 that can eat your Perterbuilt X 3. :tease: So there.

My daddy can beat up your daddy. LOL

 

[v65]

Personally, if I were in that situation with the doors slaming closed I would rather have a 6.2 Escalade with VVT which would make it thru there LONG before the doors closed.

Ahh, and that was my point. What *****, err stuntman, does this job? :blink: :lol:

For some reason the beam commercial really bothered me. I could believe that if the cliff stunt went wrong then an athletic guy might be able to jump from the truck with a parachute, kinda like cliff diving. You could rig the doors so they didn't do any damage if they hit the truck. If you screw up that beam timing you're f'ed. No thanks.

That leaves one burning question, how does ODOT lean his PT cruiser on a tree?

 

[burnergold2B]

Their advertising is kicking GM's *** all over the continent. That Tundra has a 5.7 liter motor-an engine configuration that GM just abandoned. Wait until Toyota puts a turbo diesel in it, and watch GM truck sales drop even lower than they already are.

How about Toyota's other ad where a guy pulls up to the house he built, with his boy in the Tundra? He and the homeowner are pointing out to their boys what..." I built..." GM just finished building 19 factories in China. Are they gonna rip off the Tundra advert. with the Chinese point of view? Pffft... :glare:

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

I watched the latest commercial last night. My fist thought was, "That's F'ing Crazy." My 2nd thought was, I KNOW my F350 Diesel will still out haul that little Toy any day of the week.

okay, the tundra is competition for the F150 right? I know someone with a Peterbuilt that will out haul your F350

Oh yeah, well my big brother has a C5 that can eat your Perterbuilt X 3. :tease: So there.

Oh yeah!?!?! :glare:

Not sure how fast it can stop while rolling down a metal ramp though