As you may have noticed I made some minor site updates in the past few days! Logo changed I changed the logo to a bit more car related logo. The old logo showed a set of Celica Supra rims in a close-up but it wasn’t really clear immediately that you are on a car related…
Have a look at this 1978 Mazda Capella ad: At first I didn’t really notice, but this Japanese advertisement for the Mazda Capella is shot at the German Autobahn in the late 70s with a German License plate. By passing the BMW 3 series it looks like Mazda is saying they build a better autobahn…
Came across this nice advertisement of the RS Wantanabe on Youtube: It features a Nissan (Datsun) Bluebird 910 coupe driving a rally and the wheels are the famous 8 spoke RS (Racing Service) Wantanabe rims, which we all know from Initial D. 😉 Nice to see those rims being advertised back in the 80s!
This kind of amazed me: Toyota actually advertised touge drifting!! This 1982 Starlet advertisement shows Ove Andersson drifting a Starlet down a mountain: Only a year after this commercial they released the AE86 which became the icon for touge drifting. However nowadays Toyota keeps a lot of distance from most racing sports. Especially anything getting…
I found another one: It is a compilation of two other advertisements and that’s probably why I didn’t notice it before and thought it was a double. It is a crossover of the Puppy saving TA63 Carina advertisement and another one… Puppy saving advertisement doesn’t work anymore on Youtube, so I added this advertisement here:
Today I found this great tool: http://www.labnol.org/google-adsense-sandbox/ It enables you to view which Adsense banners are shown in certain countries. The great thing about that is that you can see different targeting per country. For instance: I’m living in The Netherlands which means that my targeting is in the best case some link to Nissan…