GT86 Advert - Banned
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The Toyota advert is CG, while the NFS advert is live action with a guy doing donuts in front of cops while holding up a barely pixelated middle finger?
The advert was banned for condoning dangerous driving. It had nothing to do with it being a car you could actually buy.
And the NFS advert is going to have had some funding from Ford as that version of the Focus ST isn't in the game, yet the game is full of billboards advertising it.
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Got those rules to hand?
Do your own homework brah
Maybe not conciously, but it is promoting a "speeding" culture, which is unaceptable on public roads.
Speeding or driving spiritedly?
The public roads are for travel, not for fun, save it for the race track either way.
Rubbish. Those game adverts do more to promote that than this advert. No indication of speeding whatsoever, it's just a case of fun = speed in the ASA's eyes.
........oh and Hurfdurf disagreeing with everyone shocker!
The ASA are an enigma. Several hundred complaints were made about an advert for the car supermarket and the complaint was upheld. They were told to take it down. Then they stuck two fingers up at the ASA and ran the adverts again. The ASA when approached said that it "wasn't in their power to do any more." Riiiight.
The Toyota advert is CG, while the NFS advert is live action with a guy doing donuts in front of cops while holding up a barely pixelated middle finger?
Is it advertising a car?
No.
Its advertising a game where you pretend to drive fast.
That's why it's acceptable.
We had the black ops two adverts on for the go for a couple of weeks with live actors holding guns and knives, are they saying its ok to shoot each other?
No, they are advertising a game where you pretend to shoot each other.
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The Toyota advert is CG, while the NFS advert is live action with a guy doing donuts in front of cops while holding up a barely pixelated middle finger?
The NFS advert is not advertising a car, it is advertising a computer game so somwhat unsuprisingly it is not covered by the regulations around advertising cars, just like the regulations on advertising cars do not apply to adverts for toasters or holidays in Spain or tampons.
Edit - just seen you are looking to buy a S2000....
Lol that you are care mad enough to check my post history.
Mission acomplished.
The S2000 is a fabulous track day car and capable of being fun within the limits of british roads and laws.
You were saying just recently that you can comfortably drive Eagle F1 tyres at their limit. This makes your above comment massively hypocritical, no?
Just.. really?
I dont agree with the ASA regulations but will people stop spouting rubbish like this? Top Gear is not banned by the ADVERTISING STANDARDS AGENCY becuase it is not an ADVERT.
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