I watched this JDM advertisement for the Honda Civic 35XT and it kind of puzzles me what the 35XT stands for… It just looks like a regular ED sedan, but then with the dual carbed hyper 16valve D15B2 engine in it… Video on the next page…
Yesterday Jalopnik posted that two people deferred British advertisement for the Toyota GT86 (aka the Toyota 86 or Scion FR-S) because it contained wild driving. What? Just two people complaining can stop an advertisment being broadcasted?
Jalopnik called it Brazil like and that is somewhat true if you have watched Terry Gilliam’s movie… …however I do think Toyota was aiming for a much more pressing world: the world of Grand Theft Auto! Read the rest of this entry →
There had to be something before Ken and Mary, right? They must have come from somewhere and it probably wasn’t a Nissan Skyline that gave birth to them… The Nissan Skyline C10 was the third generation Skyline and the first car released after the Nissan and Prince Motor Company merger and the fourth Skyline model became famous for its Ken and Mary commercials. Before merger the Skyline range belonged to the Prince Motor Company and I personally consider the Skyline as a manly car. So the Prince Motor Company must have been the parents of Ken while Nissan must have been the parents of Mary.
Prince featured Ken’s parents their commercial for the second Skyline model (S50):
So now we know that Kens parents loved skiing and were god fearing christians.