This is actually pretty clever. Take a look at the plethora of European street signs, and now reinterpret their meanings into a story of boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl and bad things happen.
Here are 2 short iconographic stories with NSFW text content.
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Audi has taken its supercar R8 to the Nurburgring to make some direct comparisons between real-world track driving and GT5: Prologue driving as well as letting loose some secrets on the upcoming demo GT5.
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This clever commercial from Mercedes, designed to promote their new pre-safe brakes, presents a twist on the dangers of texting and driving.
Namely, DON’T TEXT AND DRIVE! (not even if you have a Mercedes-Benz)
In Maranello, Italy it doesn’t matter that your Audi R8 5.2 V10 has the chassis of an Italian thoroughbred underneath. Don’t drive it through the city of Maranello. It’s just wrong and the residents won’t like you very much.
Yet another jab by Audi’s marketing folk. This time showing that the Audi R8 5.2 V10 super car brings shame and horror to the residents of Ferrari’s home town. It’s okay little Audi R8, come see us. We promise we’ll welcome you with open arms.
Popular Entries: R8, Commercial, Audi, Maranello, Ferrari, Audi R8Feast your eyes on the new BMW X5 M and BMW X6 M, both powered by BMW’s brand-new 555 HP 4.4-liter V8 M engines, and are the first all-wheel-drive models in the history of the BMW M series.
Both the new BMW X6 M and BMW X5 M, debuted at the New York Auto Show, are powered by a newly-developed 4.4-liter V8 M engine delivering 555 HP at 6,000 rpm a whopping 500 lb-ft of torque from 1,500 to 5,650 rpm. The new M engine is the first with a pulse-tuned exhaust manifold encompassing both rows of cylinders combined with high-performance twin-scroll twin turbo technology.
All that twin turbo goodness helps both of these SUV-type-things accelerate from 0-to-60 MPH in 4.5 seconds. But the real story here is from a handling standpoint, as both vehicles, with careful tuning of their xDrive systems, are the first BMW M vehicles with all-wheel-drive capability.
Read the full press release and view the full galleries after the jump.
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