VIDEO: Japanese market Gran Turismo PSP commercial is fantastic and revolting
Gran Turismo PSP Commercial - Click above to watch the video after the break
Don't worry, this video is totally safe for work. But we're saying revolting because we can remember back years ago we watched Clint Eastwood's Pink Cadillac with a friend's father who happened to restore muscle cars for a living. Anywho, as you might imagine the 1959 Cadillac gets pretty dinged up throughout the course of the film – fairly often, too. As such, my pal's dad was not only cringing at every dent, scrape and rumpled piece of metal, but actively screaming at the TV. Mostly stuff like this, "What not-nice-people! Why would they do such horrible things to such a wonderful, historic car?!?" More or less.
Now, we're not prudes. We like the destruction of cars. From the Jeremy Clarkson style (kill bad cars!) and the Ca$h For Clunker$ style (Kill ALL cars – hey, creative destruction is a valid economic theory) to 24 Hours of LeMons style (let's race dead cars! Er, kill that one car!). There's just something wonderful about smoking engines, twisted sheet metal and precious fluids spilled all over tarmac -- no matter what the car. That said, the video you're about to watch, well, it's a little hard to stomach. So, let's just call it mildly revolting. Also, we're supposed to mention something about damage rendering, or the lack there of, but, uh... Ready? Jump!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
artso06 8:01PM (10/21/2009)
Hate to say it but don't care about PSP, give me the real game already. It actually only makes it more depressing that i can't play it on the big boy game system
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Ersin 8:01PM (10/21/2009)
corvette turned out to be an ellise
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Venom 8:08PM (10/21/2009)
Why the hell would you do this?
Ironically I saw a white Countach driving through town about 2 weeks ago.
I had not seen one of those things in forever, probably won't again for a long time.
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Fara 8:26PM (10/21/2009)
Gonna come of as a douche, but whatever...
You mean Coincidentally. There's nothing ironic about you seeing a white countach 2 weeks ago.
Venom 8:33PM (10/21/2009)
You are right, you did come across as a douche.
Good job.
Yaroukh 8:51PM (10/21/2009)
@Venom: somehow the stars beg to differ ;)
homunculus 9:15PM (10/21/2009)
ironically, it rained on my wedding day.
GFish 10:31PM (10/21/2009)
Rain on your wedding day is also not really ironic, just unfortunate..
adrenalnjunky 10:46PM (10/21/2009)
Alanis Morissette screwed the concept of irony for the entire English language for many years to come.
arinze 10:47PM (10/21/2009)
LOL!!! Ya'll are too funny!!
Farmboy 11:58PM (10/21/2009)
Hate to interject, but this reminds me of a facebook status thing that was about who MJ was and everyone purposely was confusing him with someone else named Michael or Jackson.
Korben Dallas 2:49AM (10/22/2009)
Huh? Rain on the wedding day is unfortunate? What planet are you from? Rain on the wedding day is considered extremely good sign. It's good luck.
Eyad 3:51AM (10/22/2009)
@Fara "Gonna come OFF as a douche..."
Fara 5:52AM (10/22/2009)
@Eyad:
Oh, right thanks. Should've read through my post.
LBuzzer 8:30AM (10/22/2009)
@andrenalnjunky
No, she just showed that most people weren't using right in the first place. The ultimate irony is that the song "Ironic" isn't about irony at all. People who know what irony is would have gotten it.
larry a 8:18PM (10/21/2009)
I really, really hope those are replicas...
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Boudu 9:42PM (10/21/2009)
Watch the CM a couple of times; very minor body damage at most, scuffed paint at best, and maybe a lot hubcab. You would think they totaled the car the way people talk about it, All they did was likely drive at around 30-40mph touch bodies, and speed up the video in post.
Also, the CM looks like it was saying, you can't do this in real life, so do it Gran Turisimio.
larry a 10:52PM (10/21/2009)
Yeah I get the whole message of the commercial and I know damage is minor but still! Hitting those 2 cars together is blasphemy
Boudu 2:55AM (10/22/2009)
@larry a
Honestly, there are a lot more blasphemous things in the world...
Neither cars are incredibly rare, we're not talking about a 31' Bugatti Royale trading paint with a 62' Ferrari 250 GTO. It looks to be incredibly minor damage, in fact, more damage is applied to classic cars like that everyday from driving them hard, and people actually enjoying them.
These aren't museum pieces after-all.
Taglane 8:26PM (10/21/2009)
OMG. I hope the Corvette's fender is okay. Don't ever touch a car like that.
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