Toyota Commercials

I dont know if I'm the only one who notices these things but tonight during a Toyota commercial, I realized something. You never see a commercial highlighting the Tacoma or 4Runner. At least not in Kentucky. Maybe I have too much time on my hands......

 

toyota don't need to advertise the tacoma or 4-runner. they speak for themselves

 

I agree. I have seen a few Tundra commercials that are kind of ridiculous, but never Tacoma commercials. At least they don't show a passenger jet with a screwed up landing gear landing in the bed.

 

Hahaha Nissan I think that was.

 

You never saw this one?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_OtbXmu9kg

 

I agree but its just odd to me. I mean you would think that Toyota would give at least give them some air time.....Oh wait, Nissan beat them to that.....

 

Saw the new ad. didn't even know they got a new slogan. "Let's Go Places". huh?? what's up with that.

 

From a marketing standpoint it doesn't really make sense to spend their advertising dollars on the Tacoma when it can be spent on cars like the Camry that compete in a highly competitive segment. The only viable option to the Tacoma is the Frontier and the Tacoma already outsells that by enough. Full size trucks are a very competitive market so it makes sense they would have TV time for the Tundra over the Tacoma.

 

It cracks me up when I see any 4WD truck or Jeep commercial and they show the vehicle appearing to be going 40 or 50 mph offroad when anybody that has ever really gone four-wheeling over the years knows you never drive that fast. I guess the commercials are for people that don't know any better [Darwin Award candidates] to get them to buy.

 

Why do you think there are so many YouTube videos of people destroying completely stock brand new trucks doing stupid shit lol

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIkzhsm6zHU&feature=related

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCe-1LYj_4o

A couple I've seen. They do a little bit of commercials when a new body style comes out but that's about it. I can't find my all time favorite which had multiple generations with the real owners being interviewed. It was pretty cool commercial.

 

^^^

http://youtu.be/VhuRxb9QHyc

Here's the interview commercial but in Spanish.

 

One of my buddies gave this to me for christmas last year, found it in an old magazine.

 

They advertised the Tacoma pretty regularly when the economy was doing well and people were buying larger trucks and SUVs.
When things started turning, people who actually needed trucks and SUVs continued to buy them, but downsized to the Tacoma and 4-Runner... money spent on those trucks reduced in most markets, and was moved to support the Tundra.

 

They still run one here with the annoying "Push the limits" head-banger music. Toyota can replace that one anytime they want...