Quick Spin: 2015 Golf GTI

Volkswagen recently hosted a test-drive event featuring the all-new Golf and Golf GTI. This publication functions on short articles. Meaning? While this seventh generation Golf is worthy, the difference between driving it and the Golf GTI is like kissing Sandra Bullock today—absolutely a seminal moment with a major personality who’s … Read More

Review: Mk7 GTI

Lucky seven. Seventh heaven. Seven-up. Call it what you will, the number seven is the charm for the venerable Volkswagen GTI, now approaching its thirtieth year in continual production. The new car is lighter, nimbler, faster. The seventh-generation Golf hits the Canadian market sometime late next year. As a bit … Read More

Volkswagen’s Controversial Ad Reshot

[youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGSKQnMH4g[/youtube] Remember that Volkswagen commercial that people were saying was racist? Charles Blow of the New York Times called it “like blackface but with different voices” while the Wall Street Journal’s Jimmy Cliff noted that the ad’s entire shtick was centred around “the fact that the accent was coming … Read More

$53.2 Million Worth of Super Bowl Ads

CBS has sold out its ad inventory for Super Bowl XLVII, with prices averaging between $3.7 and $3.8 million per spot. While these ads sure are expensive, none of them will compare to the lasting impact (and exceptional value) of a half-time streaker with “DailyXY” and “YOLO” painted on his … Read More

The New Beetle, Mon

[youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0xPWAtaa8[/youtube] Not everyone is irie about this ad, but we suspect that people calling it “racist” just needed a more powerful way of saying that it “sucks”.

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