VIDEO: Audi A6 ad by Knucklehead's Johnny Green
by Noah Joseph on Oct 18th 2006 at 10:32AM 
Johnny Green, a director with UK's Knucklehead Films, has made this 90-second commercial for the Audi A6. The result is something truly out of this world, showing a mysterious object falling from the sky over the American mid-west and plunging into the deep blue ocean.
The mind-boggling numbers quoted at the end reveal that Audi has actually filed more patents than NASA...for the new A6 alone.
The impressive and stylistic commercial is only the director's second, yet he manages to portray a thoroughly modern automobile in a retro-futuristic space-age style, all while achieving its purpose as a commercial advertisement by projecting a kind of ethereal desirability on the product. (Watch the clip, you'll see.)
[Source: Knucklehead via German Car Blog]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Brian Heater 10:43AM (10/18/2006)
Oh my god. Do you realise this stupid ad starts automatically when you load the page? If you're going to publish S### at least put it after the jump.
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enh 11:14AM (10/18/2006)
Now I want an A6 even less
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jim 10:59AM (10/18/2006)
Cool bit. That's the way to sell sh_t ...not by zero down and 60 months to pay: unless you know you are selling crap.
j i m
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CJ 11:00AM (10/18/2006)
Yo! Thanks for the Vid, but don't load it please!
Also... why I would think NASA doesn't actually need to file for many patents...
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mcheddadi 11:00AM (10/18/2006)
Omg! that's not the way to embed a video.
use "Click to play" method
("Click to play" poster that comes up prior to the movie starting)
here's the method:
http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20050307/170363.html
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Shawn 11:08AM (10/18/2006)
Oh please, you think the video post is unintentional? Of course Audiblog...I mean Autoblog is paid to show you that commercial. It's the new spam pop-up...advertisment diguised as a regular blog entry.
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$0.02 11:10AM (10/18/2006)
Audiblog
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Brian Heater 11:11AM (10/18/2006)
Hey Shawn,
Looks like you're among the same group that thinks America never landed on the moon and Osama wasn't responsible for 911. What makes you say Autoblog should be called Audiblog apart from the need to sound like a w###er?
Brian
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Anthem 11:28AM (10/18/2006)
Maybe you posters should just go back to wasting your hours searching YouTube for your on-line needs. This is Autoblog... who the F*ck cares how/if they embed there videos. Jeez... it's like watching a five-year-old complain about the wrapping on his birthday present.
Here's an idea, let's discuss cars on Autoblog, and discuss your passive/agressive need for validation on your MySpace page (which you undoubtedly keep updated with all your trite opinions).
BTW, The commercial is cool... wish they'd have shown abit more of the actual car though.
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epp_b 12:42PM (10/18/2006)
Yeah, *that* is going to attract me to buy something. Knowing that you're a patent troll.
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Tiago do Vale 11:43AM (10/18/2006)
Amazing clip... A message doesn't have to be simplistic, superficial or direct to pass... This is a Hi-Tech robust brand, and aims for inteligent buyers.
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Shawn 11:59AM (10/18/2006)
LOL Brian Heater, ummm...you're the guy that bought the Brooklyn Bridge right?
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$0.02 12:09PM (10/18/2006)
I dont need my mind inundated with anymore Audi commercials like the multiple ones we are fed by Audiblog. We are here to read about cars. But, frig, Audi, Audi, Audi. You must realize there are a disproportionate amount of Audi posts. Go back and look over the last month and see how many ridiculous Audi posts there are.
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335i yi yi 1:00PM (10/18/2006)
Without audio (I'm at work), this ad seems pointless. Where are the goods? They show the car only at the last few seconds of the video. It seems that could be an ad for any car. Where is the differentiation?
I'll try later with audio.
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Stacey 12:55PM (10/18/2006)
Audi's rock.
That new A6 is beautiful!
Bring on the RS6...
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Dr. Woo 1:19PM (10/18/2006)
"Go back and look over the last month and see how many ridiculous Audi posts there are."
I assume you ask because you have. So how many is it?
Oh, wait...you haven't?
Where were you when the whole Ford-GM-Renault issue was front page news for over a month? Oh, and the whole "Audiblog" thing is so cute. Auto, Audi...yeah, they're similar. Clever!
I'm convinced that soon, the Autoblog writers will do an entire day of only-Audi posts just to piss you folks off. And it'll be so funny to see your e-undies in a bundle.
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Coasterjob 1:00PM (10/18/2006)
To the "Audiblog" people:
Stop your b####ing.
When I look to the right at the column with all the manufactorers and I see Audi with 146 posts, BMW with 178, VW with 152, Toyota with 227, and Chevy with 169, dont give me that crap about Autoblog being over-biased towards Audi. Go wank.
As for me, I liked the video, but to agree with Anthem, I wish they had shown more car....
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felonious monk 1:10PM (10/18/2006)
Visually interesting... but an ad selling a luxury vehicle featuring people who probably can't afford the said vehicle seems a bit depressing.
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Dieter 1:36PM (10/18/2006)
"Zooropa" - U2. Couldn't have said it better.
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auto specifications 1:50PM (10/18/2006)
One of the worst ad made for an Audi
http://www.auto-specifications.com/
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