Some old Porsche commercials

[ivath]

I have posted some old Porsche commercials on Youtube which I think some of you might find interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=porscheg50

[ivath]

Hopes this works better

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=porscheg50

[wolf]

nice, esp no 1.

[Zef]

Cool...thanks for the link. I liked the 928 one...

[Doug&Julie]

Did anybody write down the roads on the 944 "best handling" one?

[Eric Hahl]

Those are great! Thanks for sharing.

[Paulporsche]

Thanks. I especially like the vintage one w/ Ferry.

BTW if that doesn't clearly indicate how to pronounce Porsche, I don't know what does!

[pmajka]

carrera 3.2 930 comercial??? Patrick Stewart voiceover?

[Drew001]

Originally posted by Doug&Julie
Did anybody write down the roads on the 944 "best handling" one?

New Mexico: U.S. 64
Four Corners to Clayton

Pennsylvania: U.S. 6
The Allegheny to Milford

Washington: WA 20
Port Townsend to Newport

Arkansas: Arkansas 23
The Ozarks

That's all they gave out of the Car&Driver 10 Best Roads.

[cygtoad]

Originally posted by pmajka
carrera 3.2 930 comercial??? Patrick Stewart voiceover?

I would say it has to be. Nobody else sounds like that.

[Joeaksa]

Excellent and thanks for the post.

[azasadny]

Thank you!!

[limble]

I like the singing angels near the end of the 930 commercial.

[Oh Haha]

Anybody else having troubles downloading the entire video? I can only get about 5 seconds and then I can't get a response from the site.

[swa911]

Originally posted by pmajka
carrera 3.2 930 comercial??? Patrick Stewart voiceover?

I do beleive that was indeed the voice of Jean Luc Picard, Capt. of the Starship Enterprise.

Number one.......engage.

That one gave me chills.

I love my car.

[Doug&Julie]

Originally posted by Drew001
New Mexico: U.S. 64
Four Corners to Clayton

Pennsylvania: U.S. 6
The Allegheny to Milford

Washington: WA 20
Port Townsend to Newport

Arkansas: Arkansas 23
The Ozarks

That's all they gave out of the Car&Driver 10 Best Roads.

Excellent, thanks! I think I actually have that issue. (..in the "way back" box..)

[Doug&Julie]

Originally posted by swa911
I do beleive that was indeed the voice of Jean Luc Picard, Capt. of the Starship Enterprise.

Number one.......engage.

That one gave me chills.

I love my car.

You guys do realize that was a commercial for a Boxster, don't you? Somebody spliced in factory 3.2 and Turbo footage. (..which was well done, but you can tell it's not factory original because the footage repeats.) I have the original on a DVD of Boxster promo stuff.

[Doug&Julie]

Here's the original...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTv7lMY9XA

[cygtoad]

Doh!   I admit it.   I have been duped!

Come to think of it, it would be sort of odd to have Patrick Stewart narrate a Carrera commercial.   His popularity and the car don't sync from a time perspective.

Also the marketing is way off for the Carrera.   The target market at the time of the Carrera was Yuppies.   Yuppies don't drive minivans or station wagons and their first priority was themselves, not other "important but mundane" tasks.

I don't think I have ever seen an add for a 911 Carrera. Do any of them really exist, or was television air time just not a good buy for them considering how small the market for the 911 was. Consider that back in the 80's there was not a zillion channels on cable, and that media purchase would have been big $$$.

Maybe there were some promotional tapes made for dealer distribution.   Anyone?

[Doug E]

Good stuff on the originals ... thanks for the link.