New Hyundai advert

Interior. Long shot of the back of a kid's head. We see the big-screen
TV where the kid is playing a video game. As the camera slowly zooms
in, we see that the game is crash 'em up, 'see how many collisions you
can get in while driving down the street,' stuff. The voice-over says,
"This year, more than <XXX> thousand new drivers will hit the roads.
Think about it." Then something about their new safe car, yadda
yadda.

Whoever does Hyundai's ads is creative. It was effective.

 

Made you think about giving up bikes and getting a nice little car, did it?

 

Hyundai? "Nice little car"? Shurely Shome mishtake...

 

I didn't suggest he should get a Hyundai - obviously some sort of Fiat
Multipla would be a much better choice.

 

Their ads have always been so much better than their cars...

 

For a nanosecond, maybe. At least I remembered who made the ad, which
is more than I can say for most.

 

Excellent. Mind you, I remember this superb ad for the otherwise humdrum
Montego.

 

I have to confess to being quite fond of the Montego. Maestro too.

 

A mate of mine had a Maestro EFI. Happy memories of making progress in
it between RAC Rally spectator stages.

Also of driving one round Silverstone club circuit on a 'Racing School'
try out day.
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I had a 1.3L as a company car - put 36k on it in 16 months, mostly M4/M25.

 

Oh lord yes, I'd forgotten they used Montegos. **** knows why - I
guess they were cheap. Our group managed to break two on the day we
were there.

Oh, you were talking about Maestros. Well, it was definitely Montegos
when I was there.

 

I like the Northern Ireland Road safety ads.

To say they're hard hitting is an understatement. :-0

HTH

Paul.

 

Ah, that's the otherwise humdrum Russ Swift. I used to be in the same
motor club as him and I remember him winning lots of autotests -
frequently those I was further down the order in. Slick ****.

That handbrake turn into a parking space, right at the end was his
trademark: we had him as lunchtime entertainment at a rallysprint
around an ex-wildlife park. The long circuit was a strip of tarmac
which was less than four metres wide and ~3 miles long and he took a
Mini round it. He made the valves bounce in first, then handbraked it
round, changing into reverse on the turn - then he hoofed it to valve
bounce in reverse and flicked it into first on the turn ... rinse and
repeat. He never touched the grass, all the way round.

 

Stockton and DMC? Me too - but I was rallying rather than doing
autotests. Russ grassed me up once when he saw me driving away from a
bird's house in Yarm about 6:00 a.m. one morning. Otherwise a really
nice and modest bloke.

 

In my 'testing days it was a requirement (for 'clubman's licence'
events) to join the organising club: I was therefore a member of ~20
MCs and although my 'main' clubs were Sunderland&DMC and Tynemouth we
used to get all the newsletters and do events and meetings outside the
ANECC events quite frequently. Never a free weekend ;-)

I never knew him well, what with him being a Senior Member, like, and
very good at what he did; but he always came across as one of the good
guys - free with advice and encouragement. He was certainly partly
responsible for improvements in my car handling skills.

 

You're talking to someone who owns a Multipla.

HTH

 

Heh. Anyone remember the Maestro Turbo? The one that had the 'Turbo'
badge executed in Porsche's script?

 

Depends whether you mean "pretty functional" or "pretty, functional" )

The Maestro is functional in that it has an engine, doors, seats and
most of the basic things you need in a car. It's shit, but it has them.

 

A mate at college had an MG Maestro Turbo. This would have been about
1994. It was stonkingly quick (0-60 in about 6 anna half seconds),
but had no brakes and no handling. Properly scary.

 

The Maestro had a big, light, roomy cabin with plenty of room in the back,
and adequate boot space. It rode and handled pretty well by the standards
of the time, with reasonable performance and economy. Mine was perfectly
pleasant to drive around in, and very comfortable. Pretty much like the
Multipla, really.