Meet The Family - Meet the Beckers Episode 1

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Old 10-09-2008, 01:01 PM
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Meet The Family - Meet the Beckers Episode 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfXqt0PuHQk



DIdnt know if this belongs in car talks or ramblings.. but had to share.
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http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/09/m...ercedes-and-l/

Audi wants you to know that its customers are normal people just like you and I, and it's created a series of shorts to prove this point. But instead of showing moms and dads driving their kids to soccer games in a Q7 or going through the McDonalds drive-thru to pick up some chicken nuggets in an A4, the German automaker took a more comedic tack. Before you roll your eyes and scroll down to the next post, trust us on this one, it is absolutely priceless.

After the jump is a three-and-a-half-minute video called "Meet the Beckers" that chronicles a couple driving to the family home (mansion) for a reunion. They seem normal and even likable. The video also shows other members of the Becker clan heading to the reunion, but they're driving a BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus RX350. Instead of pointing out the virtues of Audi vs. the competition, the four-ringed automaker hammers home the long standing stereotypes associated with the other players in the luxury market. The creepy couple in the BMW convertible cuts off a Prius and the driver has a Bluetooth headset on his ear. The Mercedes owner is an old man with a hot young bride, and he he drives away with the wipers going and his blinker on. The Lexus owners are yuppies with twins who appear to have a devil-worship problem. This is laugh till you cry stuff, folks, and an absolute must watch.
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haha neat little video! the M3 vs prius was quite funny.
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...not bad... but wtf is that supposed to be?
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So Audi is in the viral marketing business now too?

I liked the video
Old 10-09-2008, 03:45 PM
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...not bad... but wtf is that supposed to be?
An advertisement for the new audi A4.

no, seriously it is. either that or a wannabe meet the fockers.
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Great video.
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that A4 looks nice...
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Sorry, but that commercial is boring and any message it has is too abstruse and enigmatic.
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I don't know if Audi putting A4's in commercials with M3's and S-classes is such a good idea.
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The A4 does look nice but they should have gone with the A5/S5 in comparison to the M & S.
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part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0R7av8fjF4
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Funny stuff
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it looks like a HBO show
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LOL at the purple ultimate driving machine.
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I like Laguna Seca Blue :/

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lol

The BMW driver gets a lot of show time
Old 10-24-2008, 07:56 PM
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Umm, I don't think these are meant to be A4 commercials. They are just funny vids depicting the "typical" buyers of other brands.....
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Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipsAc...eature=related
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LOL, they are going a lil too far with the BMW guy.
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Those kids are just creepy
Old 11-24-2008, 08:49 PM
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I lol'd
Old 11-24-2008, 08:51 PM
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Old 11-24-2008, 09:03 PM
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I'm a big fan of perverse, twisted humor but this is creeping me out. Wouldn't want to make me buy an Audi nor associated myself in any way with them.
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It's like Wedding Crashers meets The Shining
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How is this supposed to encourage people to buy an Audi? If anything, it makes me want to buy an S550 or an M3 to show that I don't fit into the stereotype.
Old 11-26-2008, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by taitando
How is this supposed to encourage people to buy an Audi? If anything, it makes me want to buy an S550 or an M3 to show that I don't fit into the stereotype.
Oh okay, you'll be buying an M3 because you've got something prove... well that's not stereotypical is it?
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Wanting to buy and buying is totally different. So do all M3 owners have something to prove?
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Originally Posted by taitando
So do all M3 owners have something to prove?
Well, what use is an M3?

For the price, there are far better dedicated sports cars not built on a compact sedan chassis. And you could also choose to get a 5 series which is a far superior sedan.

Why spend so much money on something that isn't, relatively speaking, very good at anything?
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Just saw these ads... hilarious.
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It's a clever marketing idea but why use what looks like a A4 Premium when an A4 Prestige S-Line would have really looked like a nicer car?

So when people go look at $34k A4s they don't get disappointed?
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I lol'd a little and at the same time
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Cool commercials. I like the way they did it.
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Ha I thought it was pretty clever, but they should of used an S4 or A5/S5. Kinda reminds me of the Audi A4 billboard where they said "your move BMW" and then BMW responds with an Ad featuring the M3 that says "checkmate."
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