Bmw Ad Banned For Depicting 'hoon' Driving

[lukebaldan]

Thought i would share the following article:

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27...597-462,00.html

[Downforce]

LOL. there's a big advertising billboard with a still photo of the Z4 with the tyre marks everywhere... does that mean they have to take that down too? pffft.

[funkymonkey]

read about this in the paper today...

this is the ad.

I actually liked it, its very clever, and you can tell its in a warehouse in a controlled environment off the street, as an expression of art. some people just need to harden the fuck up.

[CrispyFries]

The watchdog banned the ad on the basis it depicted illegal driving.

lol, when it's clearly not a public road

[lukebaldan]

Yer this is what shits me. They took down the ad because it promotes hoon behaviour.

By the same process, they should ban all motor sport depicting fast/dangerous driving.

Australia is getting out of control with censorship. If you have been keeping track of the ALP cyber safety plan, you'll know what i mean.

[180Roman]

so based on what the gov thinks,

after seeing the add, i should now put paint jets into my wheelguards and hoon around painting the streets

i liked the add, poor decision

[bluejeans]

oh god.. only in australia.

[Takahashi GTR]

Very Poor Indeed.

so based on what the gov thinks,

after seeing the add, i should now put paint jets into my wheelguards and hoon around painting the streets

i liked the add, poor decision

[iamhe77]

Protect the innocent minds of young drivers!

Haven't you heard the increased wheel spins in the evenings since that ad first aired!

Thank God for common sense parliamentarians making decisions for us!

Quick! The ad is on YouTube! Ban that as well!!

I just watched it and had to 5 wheel drift my office chair!

Farkin' useless bunch of oxygen stealers. Get some perspective.

Edited June 29, 2009 by iamhe77

[lukebaldan]

Protect the innocent minds of young drivers!

Haven't you heard the increased wheel spins in the evenings since that ad first aired!

Yes!

How funny would it be if you pulled up at the lights today, only to witness.........

A BMW Z4 drifting through a red light with paint spraying everywhere!

It could happen, surely the only reason why you buy a Z4 is it's ability to lose traction and create colorful art simultaneously.

Next time you see odd paint on the road, there is a fair chance it was a Z4 (Paint spray would depict extent of traction loss)

[West]

I thought it was very artistic!

[180Roman]

i see this paint spray thing could take off with drifters

then when they get caught, they just argue that they were painting

[adznight]

What a crock of shit!

[HEKT1K]

*runs to get tins of paint*

pff what an absolute joke.

[_Ryan_]

new ford add with heart rate when u break speed limit... time to report it!

[AGE]

Chopper sums it up....

[Solid Snake]

Lol, soon we'll have the Great Firewall of Australia, which is the internet censorship, no R rated games even though the average Australian gamer is 30 and now banning ads because they show "hoon like" behavior. HOW ABOUT YOU BAN ALL THOSE f**kING MOBILE PHONE/SEX ADS ON MIDNIGHT FREE TO AIR TV!

[ONE-VIA]

goverment needs to have a table spoon of cement and htfu

if i paint my wheels and do a skid can i blame bmw

[KezR33]

LOL, I'm not surprised.

When I first saw that ad I thought to myself "If that was a Skyline spinning paint to pretty music it sure as hell wouldn't be on TV". Guess they're not total hypocrites.

Still stupid though.

[Do-Luck]

Lol, soon we'll have the Great Firewall of Australia, which is the internet censorship, no R rated games even though the average Australian gamer is 30 and now banning ads because they show "hoon like" behavior. HOW ABOUT YOU BAN ALL THOSE f**kING MOBILE PHONE/SEX ADS ON MIDNIGHT FREE TO AIR TV!

They actually used to have boob on those ads years ago, so it is toned down