No commercials

[1STMP]

Has anyone else noticed the lack of car
commercials especially during the change
of model years? The boob tube has been
strangely silent. New car commercials
used to flood the airwaves.
Ford has a better idea.
Chevrolet is job 1.
Could it be that so many are available today,
there just isn't enough time in a day to
introduce them all?
As a kid growing up it was cigarettes, cars, and
shampoo.

 

[Kern Dog]

If there are hardly any cars on dealer lots, why advertise?
I get your point though. It used to be that car ads touted power, fuel economy and styling. Now they are about tech.......
BORING.

 

[BDF6]

I only watch the boob-tube/idiot box during lunch at work and this is a good observation. Used to be many from various makes and now I've only seen or noticed ads for Range Rover in the past many months, weeks at least...
No shortage of medication publicity though. The side effects of most are horrendous!

 

[1STMP]

If EV's are all the rage, and pushed on the
American consumer, where's the big push
trying to convince us to swing in that
direction?. I've hardly seen anything publicly
that promotes the switch other than the rare
screen shot of a plug being inserted where
a gasoline nozzle used to be.
To replace 300,000,000 ICE's, you'd think
the airwaves would be flooded with today's
supposed technologies. The saturation of
past promotions just isn't there.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I recently drove through the local area where several dealerships are located. I noticed there were very few new cars, and almost NO new trucks on the lots.... I guess the Chinese chip shortage has come to us.

 

[VFilms]

I am so glad you posted this, gives me a chance to vent. I can’t stand the crap on tv, with the exception of the shows Ghosts, very funny, so I watch the retro channels, Antenna TV, METV, etc. for the last 3 months EVERY commercial break is MEDICARE OPEN ENROLLMENT. Every channel, every network. Jimmy JJ Walker. Joe Nameth. William Shatner. All of them hawking some Medicare Advantage plan. It’s maddening. Good news is Medicare Open Enrollment ends Dec. 7. Hopefully these ads will end then, but I doubt it. Probably something like… if you missed the open enrollment period there’s still time.
Maybe I should be like BDF6 and just not watch, but then I’d miss Barbara Eden in a skimpy Jeanie outfit.

 

[Hilljack68]

We just watch older shows on Hulu. One of the reasons is NO commercials. Even when we had cable, I'd mute the box during every commercial break... even Stupid Bowl commercials.

But I agree with KD, why advertise when there are no cars on the lots? The dealer in Wooster, OH where I bought my last two trucks has FIVE cars on the lot!

 

[Triplegreen500]

I work for a multi-brand dealership. Out of 5 brands...we have less than 30 cars in stock. Total.

Why advertise, when you can't deliver?

Why worry about building, when people aren't working (and aren't planning to go back to work)?

I agree on the medicare ads - I'm over 'em. I've started using my voice remote to find a show, and watching "on demand". I can fast forward through the ads. Currently catching up on Leno's Garage...

 

[Hey-O]

Went by the dealer the other day, he offered me 3,500 dollars less than I paid for my Durango two years ago. Last year it was almost 10,000. Great, no cars to buy, no discounts I normally get. I'll just walk. No thanks.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

The only one that stands out to me right now and I see it quite often is the self driving Silverado with the annoying we will rock you crap. No thanks I prefer to steer into my own destiny. Don't need a vehicle deciding what I need to do.

 

[Hilljack68]

I ordered my truck last December, right around when all the shortages started. It took four months to arrive, but that turned out to be a good thing: I got the truck at invoice (because it's a small dealership, hence big corporate incentives), plus they gave me much more for my trade-in truck than it would've normally been worth. Timing is everything, I guess.

 

[yella71]

Where I live the car commercials are in full christmas swing ....everyother dealer is overstocked and needs to move caes off the lot.....blah blah blah gas electric hihg brid you name it. deals deals deals we got em ...so tired of christmas already....

 

[Slap Stick]

In my area there are lots full of unsold new vehicles...away from the dealers and sort of out of the way.
Ya can't sell what doesn't run. And they have to supply chips to the vehicles already built before supplying the assembly lines. I think they will supply both old and new equally badly.
They don't want to flood the market with year old vehicles. They need the lines to run.

 

[slepr1]

Want a new vehicle around here? Slim pickings and full msrp. Want to sell your used vehicle? You'll get top dollar. Kinda sounds like the housing market.

 

[#41]

Thanks to limited viewing, DVR, Netflix, etc. I have noticed a distinct lack of ANY commercials. It's so refreshing .

 

[Sahara]

Bought a new Jeep in September. Had to search to find what I wanted, found this one 750 miles away. Most dealer lots are empty or close to it, regardless of brand. No talk of the 2022’s. Pay full price or someone else will.
On the bright side, the dealership was great. Treated me with respect and not like I was fresh meat. Gave me a awesome, quality jacket as I was going out the door.

 

[Gus chiggins]

Some of the last cool dodge commercials were narrated by micheal c. hall (dexter) the 2010, and 2011 dodge commercials were pretty funny. Yes, i know the purists trash the new chargers.

 

[Slap Stick]

I had an 81 model.....and it was a two door!

 

[patrick66]

My brother has been waiting for his special-order 2022 4x4 F250 for nearly a year. He has his new fifth wheel TT, but it's parked...nothing to tow it with.

BTW, they're full of crap about the "chip shortage"...they seems to be a lot of EV garbage out there. They're full of microprocessors and chips. Doesn't seem to be a shortage of new smartphones and laptops. More of the giant "nudge" towards an unsustainable drain on the grid of EV junk.

This really needs to stop.

 

[1STMP]

With California's looming 2035 ev moratorium,
more than 20,000,000 ICE vehicles are still
registered. It's going to be tough to meet the
goal given current trends. 14 years is not much
time to set up the infrastructure needed to
charge 20,000,000 EV's. They're also between
a rock and a hard place, as new vehicle
production has slowed and/or backed up.
Thanks for you input. I don't miss the
commercials, I just found it odd that not many
are being aired.