Just saw my first MINI TV commercial, English bulldog checking out the MINI. The commercial was on the local Fox affiliate here in Boston. Anybody else seen MINI TV ads yet?

 

Nope. No TV ads, and just a few B/W ads in the local paper. There are a couple billboards around town though. Here (Indianapolis) they seem to be sells well without the ads. The dealer's been open since July, and last time I heard, they had sold 110 Coopers and Cooper S's.

 

Are you watching the Trial and Error movie? I just turned it on and I hope MINI is their sponsor!

 

I actually saw two different ones today...the bulldog one and the one where the guy gets pulled over by the British police officer. I have also seen the one with the yellow MINI and the 18 wheeler.....pretty cool!

 

I keep on seeing the "My money's on the little guy" one. Other than that, there was one where a red MINI was manuvering an s curve down a mountain. Didn't see the whole thing though. That's about it. Not very publicized though on TV. See a whole wack of MINI ads in mags though. At least there's some education on it out there. But there still is a slew of people wanting to know what it is.
Cheers,

 

hey who let the secret out. now we will see all kinds of people wanting to know where to get one.

 

Haven't seen one down in Florida. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

 

I'm ashamed to say I watch WAY too much TV...and yet, strangely have never seen a MINI ad.

R

 

That was an old add that came out over a year ago, guess they decided to use in on American TV, I have the www. site to download it if you are interested.

Steve

 

you also need to go to the MINI UK site and check out their TV ads, they have one that is sort of like a game show, The ladies have to compare a mans "Privates" to a type of car, one woman has the man drop his drawers and she said it reminded her of a Porsche. Next lady compairs the mans privates to a Ferrari, yeup you guessed it, the next man drops his drawers and the lady immediatly compares it to the MINI. ROTFLMAO with that add.

 

I have not seen any TV ads, but the past couple of weekends our local dealer has been in the paper with a B/W ad. There is at least one billboard on I-85 as you enter town.

 

I saw 2 on fox last night. The 18 wheeler one nad the guy being pulled over by the Bobby. :smile:

 

I've seen 2 advertising our local MINI dealer in Memphis. It's about time!!

 

>> The 18 wheeler one

Isn't that MINI & 18 wheeler one a rip-off of the Caddy commercial where the Caddy drives in between two 18 wheelers ?

 

The bulldog ad has run a couple of times during the Simpsons on Fox. They also ran a shortened version of the bobby commercial today.

 

There's a couple of commercials in QuickTime format on my site.
http://www.vinceandjessica.com/mini/

 

>>Haven't seen one down in Florida. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I guess that is a very good thing. The only place where I ever saw a MINI commercial here in Miami was during the short Movie theatre previews....that's it.

 

I haven't seen any TV ads for the MINI on TV, but I have downloaded a good many of them to my computer. I guess I'll have to spend more time with the idiot box now...

 

>>The bulldog ad has run a couple of times during the Simpsons on Fox. They also ran a shortened version of the bobby commercial today.


The ads running on Fox must be national, as my hubby saw the bulldog and bobby commercials while watching the Simpsons, too.

By the way, I've really been having trouble getting that song out of my head: "How did you ever get so .......?"

 

>>>> The 18 wheeler one
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>>Isn't that MINI & 18 wheeler one a rip-off of the Caddy commercial where the Caddy drives in between two 18 wheelers ?

When was the caddy commercial made? The truck commercial has been around for a while on MINIUSA.com, and I remember seeing some commercial on TV a few months ago thinking they had ripped off the MINI version!

 

>>>>Haven't seen one down in Florida. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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>>I guess that is a very good thing. The only place where I ever saw a MINI commercial here in Miami was during the short Movie theatre previews....that's it.
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I'm in Fort Lauderdale (same TV stations as Miami) and I saw the commercial with the guy getting pulled over by a bobby for driving on the wrong side of the road during Mad TV last night on Fox (Channel 7). They're out there! Keep your eyes peeled!

Tony

 

Here's a site that shows some of the ads! MINI UK

 

Last Saturday night I was watching SNL on NBC in Atlanta. It was the bulldog commercial. Cute!