Whoever came up with that Kia Hamsters/LMFAO commercial needs to die

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xSkyDrAx

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Am I the only person that thinks the Soul is butt ugly? I mean it's barely ahead of the Nissan Cube in the looks department... D:
 

zinfamous

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Am I the only person that thinks the Soul is butt ugly? I mean it's barely ahead of the Nissan Cube in the looks department... D:

I agree with all of this.


...they both of them still look better than the Prius.
 

Pardus

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J.D. Power's says 2011 Kia Soul reliability is mediocre and that is has sloppy handling and a small cargo area with weak acceleration. It's similar to the Nissan Cube, Honda Fit and Scion XB.

Wait for the 2012 model before buying one and don't get green.
kiasoulcatalog1.jpg
 

mmntech

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Am I the only person that thinks the Soul is butt ugly? I mean it's barely ahead of the Nissan Cube in the looks department... D:

No. We have them at the rental company I work for. Most of us there think they're ugly. They're decent cars but they're not sexy. I call it the baby SUV. It's like the the Sportage's mini-me.

That said, I like driving them. Steering is a little stiff but I can get over that. They handle good in the snow. Too bad they don't have an AWD option. Thank god they're putting a six speed in the 2012 model. I'm more interested to see what they've done with the Rio. The last model was like driving a car from 1995.
 

moshquerade

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You can get with this, or you can get with that
I think you'll get with this, for this is where it's at
 

DAGTA

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I was surprised Kia made a commercial that actually makes fun of their crappy product. Comparing it to a toaster.

It's like them saying, "We know it's a piece of shit, but please buy it because we made you laugh!"
 

NFS4

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I was surprised Kia made a commercial that actually makes fun of their crappy product. Comparing it to a toaster.

It's like them saying, "We know it's a piece of shit, but please buy it because we made you laugh!"

Wow, you're not too bright are you?

The commercial was contrasting the "funky" Soul with the other "appliances" on the market. AKA, boring Hondas and Toyotas. Toyotas are often labeled as appliances, so their decision was actually quite genius.
 

DAGTA

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Wow, you're not too bright are you?

The commercial was contrasting the "funky" Soul with the other "appliances" on the market. AKA, boring Hondas and Toyotas. Toyotas are often labeled as appliances, so their decision was actually quite genius.

dim enough to realize that not everything is 'genius' or 'brilliant'
 

CPA

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"you can do with this
or you can do with that..."

I love the hamsters, hate the car.
 

gevorg

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a kia is a shitty korean car that dies when driving up hill. acronym for Killed in Atempt to by weed. please do yourself a favor and burn any kia you see.
 

arrfep

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I said it in the other thread about it. I honestly thought that it was a parody of advertising. It's like a mash-up of every one of the "what old people think about the young generation" stereotypes. They couldn't decide on one theme so they took killer robots, humanoid animals, and hip-hop and tried to combine it into a single commercial.
 

Insomniator

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I just don't get it. Does anyone 18-25 buy kias? I mean if they do, they probably aren't buying them because of a LMFAO commercial.

Any one that age that knows/likes that kind of music is NOT going to embarrass themselves and buy a Kia. Someone looking for a crappy used commuter car will buy one and commercials aren't going to be the deciding factor.

If I bought a new Kia (i'm 25 with an average job) my friends would laugh their asses off at me. Hell my coworkers would do the same.
 

KlokWyze

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I just don't get it. Does anyone 18-25 buy kias? I mean if they do, they probably aren't buying them because of a LMFAO commercial.

Any one that age that knows/likes that kind of music is NOT going to embarrass themselves and buy a Kia. Someone looking for a crappy used commuter car will buy one and commercials aren't going to be the deciding factor.

If I bought a new Kia (i'm 25 with an average job) my friends would laugh their asses off at me. Hell my coworkers would do the same.

lol....

This classification of cars is horrendously ugly. The commercials are certainly not as entertaining as Geico, but definitely effective.... I don't really buy that a commercial is going to sell a car though. I really doubt if Honda stopped pushing ads for the Civic that it would even effect their sales. Word of mouth, resale value, street cred, etc.