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Dustin Hoffman sells a Volkswagen

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Edmond Bruneau

Күн бұрын

One of those great commercials that fit the personality of the pitchman. This one was easy to remember. Thanks George Lois!

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@antigen4
@antigen4 7 жыл бұрын
he's PERFECT to make small cars look HUGE
@c-028
@c-028 4 жыл бұрын
You're right!
@ahsenkhan5386
@ahsenkhan5386 15 күн бұрын
Tom Cruise: Hold my bear
@mateuscarvalho3870
@mateuscarvalho3870 10 жыл бұрын
He should advertise plastics.
@kensolar69
@kensolar69 Жыл бұрын
I see what you did there. Saw it 5 times w/ friends the first 8-9 days it was out.
@Pyrolonn
@Pyrolonn Ай бұрын
That's what I was thinking, "where is the plastic?!"
@Skeeballman64
@Skeeballman64 Жыл бұрын
Always appreciated VW's sense of humor.
@arcanondrum6543
@arcanondrum6543 Ай бұрын
Oh yes. I remember motorists laughed at me as well the many times my liquid cooled Volkswagen developed vapor lock and left me on the side of the road, waiting for the engine to cool down. Don't talk to me about maintenance, I was there, I had the receipts as well as my own time under the hood. Ahh yes, the hood. Maybe that's why Volkswagen stopped hiding the engine.
@Skeeballman64
@Skeeballman64 Ай бұрын
@@arcanondrum6543 Dam.
@MrLouis-of3yl
@MrLouis-of3yl 3 жыл бұрын
EY I'M DRIVIN HERE!
@Paul-vc8on
@Paul-vc8on Ай бұрын
Nice....
@evm6177
@evm6177 Ай бұрын
🤣😁👍
@grimblegrumble
@grimblegrumble 11 жыл бұрын
Actually a pretty decent commercial.
@Spiritdove64
@Spiritdove64 Ай бұрын
Raymond: I'm an excellent driver." from Rain Man movie staring Dustin Hoffman
@jamiespinks3657
@jamiespinks3657 Ай бұрын
A car with an electric clock! Wow, what an age we live in!
@thebestisyettocome4114
@thebestisyettocome4114 Ай бұрын
Had 1971 VW Square back. A wonderful car. Good memories.
@HansDelbruck53
@HansDelbruck53 Ай бұрын
I had a feeling Elaine was going to be in the trunk when he opened it.
@MichaelD8393
@MichaelD8393 9 жыл бұрын
VW should just make this version of the Fastback again.
@kensolar69
@kensolar69 Жыл бұрын
I loved mine. A 68' maybe.
@Emanistan
@Emanistan 8 жыл бұрын
It has an electric clock!!! The first car I have any real memory of was my mom's '67 Fastback. She bought it in 77 and sold it to a shady mechanic around 1980. I'd love to find that car again--if it's survived the last four decades--and make a restoration project out of it.
@TimothyForbesXXI
@TimothyForbesXXI 10 жыл бұрын
My next-door neighbor owned a Squareback, and it always seemed to run just fine. They had that car for years. It's very cool to see Mr. Hoffman do a commercial this early in his career; this was probably circa 1966 or so.
@smittykins
@smittykins 9 жыл бұрын
IIRC, the Fastback and Squareback were introduced in the US in 1966 so you're probably right.
@Daniel-un5mp
@Daniel-un5mp Ай бұрын
I actually remember this ad on TV. Nobody knew the guy, of course. It really knocked me over to find out years later it had been Dustin Hoffman.
@speakfreeley4473
@speakfreeley4473 Жыл бұрын
Dustin Hoffman could've easily done an ad for the Toyota Corolla. For him even that would be nice & roomy.
@10gallons
@10gallons 4 жыл бұрын
I long for simple no-frills cars. Most of today’s vehicles are complicated money-pits that hold their owners hostage through proprietary technology.
@dekelanson5280
@dekelanson5280 3 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly. I wish todays cars were simpler without all the modern gadgetry. They're just computers on wheels now.
@richardelson3261
@richardelson3261 21 күн бұрын
The VW "Lemon" ad is the all time classic. Genius.
@johnhoye4535
@johnhoye4535 Ай бұрын
i had one and loved it, good car in it’s day……
@judeirwin2222
@judeirwin2222 14 күн бұрын
No. In ITS day. It’s = it is.
@kavanghia6908
@kavanghia6908 Жыл бұрын
Great commercial! My son and I are working on our 69 Ghia that we saved from the car crusher!✌️✌️ It doesn't have two trunks 😂
@delldrive
@delldrive Жыл бұрын
Excellent year. I had a '68 coupe and rebuilt a '74 convertible. Wonderful cars. Enjoyed their energy. Have fun!
@luizaugusto935
@luizaugusto935 3 жыл бұрын
Now, I understand the Brazilian version.
@evm6177
@evm6177 6 жыл бұрын
Awsome actor, impeccable timing.. thats alot of effort there! Entertaining while being comically explicit & detailed.. Now u dont see that kind of creativity often Mr. Hoffman.
@torgman
@torgman Ай бұрын
@@evm6177 * Awesome * a lot
@judeirwin2222
@judeirwin2222 14 күн бұрын
Awesome. Learn to spell.
@adamschwartz3449
@adamschwartz3449 5 жыл бұрын
An example of "anticipatory surprise." When he opens the truck, we wait for the moment when he looks in and sees no engine. We never tire of watching the spot, anticipating that moment of surprise. VW's print ads were equally brilliant.
@budgienation
@budgienation 10 жыл бұрын
hotspur666 must have gotten a lemon. I had a '68 fastback Type III. I can say, without a doubt, it was one of the best cars I ever had. It held the road like it was on rails, it really could do 85 on a flat track on a dry day, and I must have had a forced hot air from the motor heat exchanger because I was always warm in my '68 fastback. I miss that car and I'd love to have one back in my life. 'hotspur666' I'm sorry you might have gotten a lemon, but I have nothing but fond memories when it comes to that great little car!
@anibalbabilonia1867
@anibalbabilonia1867 Жыл бұрын
Lol 😂 great sales man! And actor!
@jimseviltwin1
@jimseviltwin1 Ай бұрын
At 5’5”, he was the perfect spokesperson for this auto …
@bobe.3719
@bobe.3719 Ай бұрын
When you consider that this car was expected to get 27 MPG, it's truly amazing that today's cars with their complexity and power, can beat this number. My dad owned a 1966 Fastback similar to the one in the commercial. I remember driving it on more than one occasion and thinking that this is what it must feel like to drive a sports car. What did I know. I was only 16. I also laughed at Hoffman's mention of a clock in this model. My dad's first VW, a 1960 Beetle, didn't even have a gas gauge!
@edwardpate6128
@edwardpate6128 5 жыл бұрын
Love to have a car like that now! No frills and high quality!
@stepha5926
@stepha5926 2 жыл бұрын
High quality 😆
@jamiespinks3657
@jamiespinks3657 Ай бұрын
I like how he fumbles while attempting to open the trunk, and yet that's the take they went with 😅
@sfopaladin2661
@sfopaladin2661 Ай бұрын
Great commercial to make it look great. Nothing like Dustin
@lar7905
@lar7905 24 күн бұрын
I bought the 1971 Fastback in Boston at the auto show held at the John B Hynes Auditorium in November 1970 . It was orange . It's official color was called clementine . So when I went to register it at my insurance company they asked me the color . I said clementine . The girl said , um we have red , yellow , blue green , brown orange ...I said stop there , call it orange . I think I paid $ 2200. For $ 2200 now you get a 20 year old car ....if you're lucky .
@myobmyob2215
@myobmyob2215 Ай бұрын
The Graduate The VW car pitchman It's the same character
@jerrypie777
@jerrypie777 Ай бұрын
Dustin Hoffman's uncle, Max Hoffman, is the man most responsible for successfully bringing German cars to America in the 1950's. ya think Dustin got the gig through his uncle?
@ford9572
@ford9572 12 жыл бұрын
Awesome commercial!!! Dustin Hoffman's great!!!
@DTSsince2016
@DTSsince2016 6 жыл бұрын
ford9572 Amen!
@johneddy908
@johneddy908 Жыл бұрын
Volkswagen also sold a four-door version of the car in this clip - the first such VW sold in America. It was called the 411 (Type 4 in Europe).
@isaacabadi4667
@isaacabadi4667 Жыл бұрын
Forgot to tell the car HEY IM WALKING HERRE
@MichaelOKeefe2009
@MichaelOKeefe2009 5 жыл бұрын
The engine BTW is located in a compartment that is accessible through an engine lid in the trunk.
@friendlypiranha774
@friendlypiranha774 Жыл бұрын
Michael O'Keefe - nonsense!!! That car runs on fresh air.
@kensolar69
@kensolar69 Жыл бұрын
Yep, the miracle a boxer engine, it's flat, the pistons move sideways not up and down. I owned a 68' I think. Hey, it was 50+ years ago.
@ForbinColossus
@ForbinColossus 3 жыл бұрын
Uncle had one. He bought it used after his 1969 Mach I Mustang got creamed and totaled. He got a nearly perfect orange Volks fastback. After being used to 351 Cleveland in the Mach I, he said the Volks had 4 speeds - slow, really slow, even slower, and slow slow! 'Twas a looker with black bucket interior. Threw a rod through its block - the end. Love Benjamin Braddock, I mean Mister Gladstone
@shoknifeman2mikado135
@shoknifeman2mikado135 3 жыл бұрын
My Dad had one, a Squareback, unlike his Beetle, it had NO trouble running Highway speeds
@ongbruhlol
@ongbruhlol 2 жыл бұрын
tell us more about the Mach 1
@stepha5926
@stepha5926 2 жыл бұрын
So, sounds like it was a heap of crap?
@friendlypiranha774
@friendlypiranha774 Жыл бұрын
@@ongbruhlol- it never reached Mach 1
@billthomas8994
@billthomas8994 Ай бұрын
Had a 65 Fastback bought for $75 from my high school auto shop teacher in 1975. Bought a red and a white Squareback for parts dirt cheap. Loved the car, including the way it drove, and that unique smell from the horse hair padding. The Fastback eventually burnt to a crisp and shortly afterwards sold the two Squarebacks. Would love to have the two Squarebacks back now I have the means to restore them. I believe the white Squareback was a 64 and had the word Variant on the back.
@hyena131
@hyena131 Ай бұрын
@billthomas8994 This video is about Dustin H and not you. So much me me me on UTube and all over. A crashing bore.
@torgman
@torgman Ай бұрын
​@@hyena131Way to be an asshole! 👍
@hyena131
@hyena131 Ай бұрын
@@billthomas8994 Nice attempt at deflection, Miss queen of self absorbed...a shame it didn't work :) Got any more long winded stories about you and your past, old one? Hee! Hee!
@hyena131
@hyena131 Ай бұрын
@@billthomas8994 What "irony", old one? *LOOOL!!!* Unlike you, I didn't utter a single word about myself. Have you ever heard of the song: 'Me, myself and I?" Got any more long winded stories about your long gone youth? Hee! Hee!
@billthomas8994
@billthomas8994 Ай бұрын
And you’re just digging yourself a deeper hole😆 I love being old and if you’re very lucky one day you may be old too. At this rate though you’re at risk of being taken out by someone even more foolish than you. So grasshopper, if you can’t grow a heart at least grow a brain.
@saulchapnick1566
@saulchapnick1566 Ай бұрын
I’ll take it!!!! Whatta pitch.
@zapataalonzo9177
@zapataalonzo9177 Жыл бұрын
He does look like a sleezy car salesman 😂😂😂😂😂
@Richard-xu4cj
@Richard-xu4cj Ай бұрын
I had a '67 fastback and it was huge fun to drive!
@paulpanhook
@paulpanhook 13 жыл бұрын
awesome i love dustin hoffman
@shoknifeman2mikado135
@shoknifeman2mikado135 3 жыл бұрын
They did actually, especially the Squareback Sedan (AKA Type 3 station wagon)
@brianhechinger6726
@brianhechinger6726 Ай бұрын
Can’t imagine a car with no a/c available. Otherwise a great little classic VW.
@Spiritdove64
@Spiritdove64 Ай бұрын
I want it!
@hermanyanto1338
@hermanyanto1338 Ай бұрын
For a second, I thought he was Gary Lewis. The group who sang the song This Diamond Ring.😮
@capricejohnson3128
@capricejohnson3128 Ай бұрын
"Don't worry about the equipment....imagine all the fun you can have in the back..."
@ChazSmithProductions
@ChazSmithProductions 7 жыл бұрын
Ha... a guy who is 5'6" tells you the car has a lot of room.
@antigen4
@antigen4 7 жыл бұрын
NOT EVEN - he's tiny
@Any_Friday
@Any_Friday Ай бұрын
I was hoping he’d be advertising an Alfa Romeo
@macharper8214
@macharper8214 Ай бұрын
That's a step down from what he was driving in Mrs. Robinson.
@MaineSWH
@MaineSWH Ай бұрын
an electric clock??⚡️ Lit!!
@joelstein4657
@joelstein4657 Ай бұрын
I miss the days when cars made sense and didn't all look the same.
@CapitanFindus415
@CapitanFindus415 Ай бұрын
Sells Volkswagen, but drives Alfa Romeo Spider/Duetto...
@MrAnswerification
@MrAnswerification Ай бұрын
He's going to break that car.
@jonmeadow2449
@jonmeadow2449 Жыл бұрын
I enjoy this ad
@serafinacosta7118
@serafinacosta7118 Ай бұрын
The VW TL 1500 or 1600. Released at the same time as the Variant sports wagon. Up to that point VW only made air cooled engines , the Bettle and the Van. These cars would be a gap towards water cooled engines of latter.
@chrisst8922
@chrisst8922 Ай бұрын
No. The VW TL 1500 or 1600 and Variant were air cooled too just like the Beetle and Van but the engine was re-arranged to lower it's overall height.
@peterm1826
@peterm1826 Ай бұрын
Last time I remember him he was driving an alpha and chasing someone named Elaine and mrs Robertson
@MrMjolnir69
@MrMjolnir69 Ай бұрын
Great looking car. Never saw one. Have seen the Logo tho ...let me guess, there's a mysterious break horizontal space between V and W? Nope. That was never there..not before now anyway.
@robertaxel
@robertaxel Ай бұрын
Benjamin Braddock was forced to sell cars when he and Elaine realized their families had cut them off and they had no money...
@studiocalder818
@studiocalder818 Ай бұрын
He subsequently sold the Duetto, with satisfaction I would say
@MACTEP_CHOB
@MACTEP_CHOB 3 ай бұрын
It`s 2024 and we are still puzzed where the motor is
@birddog3130
@birddog3130 Ай бұрын
Its a wind-up toy.
@secpac58chichi
@secpac58chichi Ай бұрын
technically oil cooled
@user-fj9hf4bu9f
@user-fj9hf4bu9f Ай бұрын
omg it has an electric clock!
@chrisnewman7281
@chrisnewman7281 Ай бұрын
Obviously during his Mrs Robinson phase
@jorgezarco9269
@jorgezarco9269 Ай бұрын
Use the car to buy underwear from K-Mart.
@kennethswain6313
@kennethswain6313 Ай бұрын
My mother and sister had identical’66 fast backs they were more refined though I had a ‘65 beetle
@jarrelljimerson3346
@jarrelljimerson3346 Жыл бұрын
Autohaus of Naples did an remake of this commercial! Quite the fitting homage to Dustin Hoffman, don't you think?
@deadcarz4926
@deadcarz4926 Ай бұрын
Rain-man doesn't know where the motor is! Syrup on the table first.
@JxH
@JxH Ай бұрын
"84 mph" ? My 1966 Type 3 Fastback went 103 mph, once.
@ADAMSIXTIES
@ADAMSIXTIES 24 күн бұрын
0:20 "It also has the most powerful engine we've ever made." 0:46 "Where most cars have their trunks we have a..." So Dustin not only is part of the "we' that made the car, but is in the commercial for it and doesn't know where the engine is? Maybe Mr. Robinson stole it.
@toAdmiller
@toAdmiller Ай бұрын
I've never seen this model before...
@kenenash
@kenenash 13 жыл бұрын
Are they still offering wall to wall carpet? We may laugh at this commercial but life seems like it was pretty good back then. Kenny Nash youtube KENNY NASH "DESIRE"
@ThePresidentialTourist
@ThePresidentialTourist Ай бұрын
A young Dustin Hoffman looks a bit like a young Al Pacino to me.
@dixonpinfold2582
@dixonpinfold2582 11 күн бұрын
I got them mixed up when I was a kid.
@jimveybe7689
@jimveybe7689 Ай бұрын
Hire a short actor to sell a small car.
@vidpie
@vidpie Ай бұрын
VW used 7′ 1″ tall Wilt Chamberlain to sell a small car: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJ6jZ6Vyp5vKdY0.html
@jourwalis-8875
@jourwalis-8875 Ай бұрын
"Electric clock"!
@vidpie
@vidpie Ай бұрын
Headline from a famous Rolls-Royce ad circa1958-1962: "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock"
@nassmatic
@nassmatic 5 жыл бұрын
"Gotta get a fastback get a fastback....about a hundred dollars..."
@chaburchak
@chaburchak Ай бұрын
It has an electric clock? No way!
@BruceMusto
@BruceMusto 25 күн бұрын
What is he? Like 5'2", 5'3". He would make the Beetle look big.
@tripjet999
@tripjet999 9 жыл бұрын
Attempting to sell a car (or anything else) without sex? How novel!
@type3666
@type3666 3 жыл бұрын
Type 3 🤘👍✌️
@marvinthemaniac7698
@marvinthemaniac7698 2 жыл бұрын
I bet anything the engine on that car is under the floor, like in the Squareback.
@zikamano4847
@zikamano4847 2 жыл бұрын
amazing
@edl617
@edl617 21 күн бұрын
5’7” tall
@williamjones7163
@williamjones7163 Ай бұрын
Think Small.
@kensolar69
@kensolar69 Жыл бұрын
Hoffman, an unknown actor, ad libbed almost the entire commercial. It was not the script he was given. The director was furious and was going to fire him on the spot, but the producer stopped him. They went to the camera man and had him run the tape back. The director was still fuming ''That's not my commercial'' but the producer told him ''That's the commercial. Pay him, thank him, and get me his file.'' Note: I owned one.
@Paul-vc8on
@Paul-vc8on Ай бұрын
Good story. Didnt happen, though.
@SayHey2TheEarth
@SayHey2TheEarth 13 жыл бұрын
"trunk, a large trunk" rotfl
@UncleWally3
@UncleWally3 Ай бұрын
Wow, a VW with walls!
@michaelkatz9918
@michaelkatz9918 5 жыл бұрын
Will he do a commercial with a new model with song Mrs. Robinson?
@mooxblubble7404
@mooxblubble7404 4 жыл бұрын
"goes 84 miles per hour"
@harrycallahan9733
@harrycallahan9733 Жыл бұрын
Can you have 2 door sedans? Sounds like a contradiction, like bitter sugar, or soaking dry :)
@purefoldnz3070
@purefoldnz3070 3 жыл бұрын
it has an electric CLOCQK!
@ahsenkhan5386
@ahsenkhan5386 15 күн бұрын
Next Volkswagon advert to advitise how big theor cars is will have Tom Cruise Yeah I know ....rainman Happy now
@domitype
@domitype 7 ай бұрын
Shoulda done an Alfa Romero commercial!
@lifeisgood12341
@lifeisgood12341 12 жыл бұрын
Another fact for some to get their peoples car they would have to go their local goverment office and purchase a stamp book wich once filled with the particular stamp could be used as 900 reishmarks unfourtunantly war started and only 12% of applicants got a vehicle
@tomservo56954
@tomservo56954 10 жыл бұрын
Was George Lois working for Doyle Dane Bernbach at the time?
@jozla
@jozla 4 жыл бұрын
i like it specially 1500
@doktormcnasty
@doktormcnasty Ай бұрын
No but seriously, where's the motor?
@ricardokim544
@ricardokim544 Ай бұрын
I looking this car.
@ahmedalialtaf4025
@ahmedalialtaf4025 Жыл бұрын
Master Shifu 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@birddog3130
@birddog3130 Ай бұрын
How many times Before he got this ad done right ?
@hansgrehoner9847
@hansgrehoner9847 3 жыл бұрын
I think,he needed the money.
@aris95
@aris95 Жыл бұрын
Maybe with electicity conversion the back trunk could be as big as frontengine cars?
@operator91210
@operator91210 Жыл бұрын
This car is better for the environment as it sits. You don't have to strip a mine in China to operate this vehicle. EV's are a fraud, dangerous, expensive and inconvenient
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