Volkswagen Touran commercial conjures K.I.T.T.
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K.I.T.T. stands for Knight Industries Two Thousand. Touran, well, doesn't. And though the Volkswagen Touran doesn't chase bad guys on its own, or come when you call it, or leap ravines, or talk... it does park itself if you order Park Assist. And it's black, which makes it even more like K.I.T.T. according to VW. And while it's parking itself, you are left free to dance to the Knight Rider theme like the guy in this commercial, who is way to cool for school. Check out the commercial after the jump, and just know that David Hasselhoff probably reads Autoblog.
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espyj 1:33PM (10/17/2007)
At least this is more entertaining than watching the Lexus LS park itself with Beethoven playing in the background.
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nagmashot (Georg Stark 1:37PM (10/17/2007)
is it only me or do they want that the guy in the car should look like Michael Schumacher?
What do we learn from this self parking commercial war..if you drive a self parking Lexus you can´t drive, if you drive a Audi you park reckless like a stuntment.. if you drive a selfparking VW Touran you are the legal successor of David Hasselhoff driving KITT?
The Audi for me and I park my car traditionel :)
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rem83 1:37PM (10/17/2007)
So is that the same feature Audi was mocking on Lexus?
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nagmashot 1:42PM (10/17/2007)
yes... irnonic ... I bet Audi USA did not know what VW whererever was doing :))
Peter 2:26PM (10/17/2007)
Loosers. Audi has no identity. Keep trying and keep copying. They will always be a second class car company.
nagmashot 8:34AM (10/18/2007)
@Peter
lol
short history lesson for people lacking basic knowlege.
Audi was founded in 1910..
lets see what they have done for the car world
1. midengine race car (F1 still use the same basic car layout)
1. groundeffect car
1. under 10minute car at the Ring
1. humen ever doing over 250mph on public roads
1. FWD mass production car in the world
1. company using left side steering
1. permanent AWD in mass production cars
1. AWD user at WRC
1. user of the car layout that is still used today in WRC... turbo engine and AWD
1. mass produced all alluminum chassie
1. under 11minute car at pikes peak hill climbe
1. dieselpowered high perfromance sportcar (over touringcar class)
1. diesel powered race victory in a famous world wide known race (24h of LeMans)
most successfull single season touring car world wide..Audi A4 STW (won in 1996 7different championships all around the world)
they don´t copy... they set benchmarks.. go to class and learn little bit more about car brands you simple hate..
Randy Stern 1:53PM (10/17/2007)
An explanation? Germans are huge fans of David Hasselhoff. Plain and simple.
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kevjohn 1:50PM (10/17/2007)
But does it have a Turbo Boost button for jumping over stalled traffic?
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Edward 2:00PM (10/17/2007)
I think both Toyota Matrix and its futurist commercial using "Matrix" effects (http://www.weshow.com/us/p/19018/toyota_matrix) are much more interesting than Volkswagen Touran!
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rem83 2:15PM (10/17/2007)
Yes, because a commercial where lame econoboxes drive around a cityscape to techno music, while at the same time revealing nothing about the car itself is interesting.
Kowell 4:20PM (10/17/2007)
Forget the commercial..... that car is one ugly bastard.....
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Mike 5:09PM (10/17/2007)
"Loosers. Audi has no identity. Keep trying and keep copying. They will always be a second class car company."
Loosers? What's a looser?
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chad.dawkins 1:26AM (10/18/2007)
That was a REALLY cool commercial.
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