Creative Criminals

Volkswagen Street Quest is a Facebook challenge to find and ‘Pin’ as many Volkswagens on South African roads as possible, using Google’s Street View application.

This new Volkswagen commercial is a tad strange for a car brand. But the philosophy behind it is pretty good: “Some technology connects us, but the best technology brings us together”. They could have finished with a more powerful ending though.

The Volkswagen delivery trucks have the right size for your needs. This slogan is perfectly illustrated by this delivery truck blended in in a supermarket.

To prove the loading capacity of the Volkswagen Crafter, the brand came up with this cool activation. They set up a giant QR code composed entirely of wooden crates. Once the QR Code was flashed, people saw a video showing that all the crates came out of the Crafter.

Who doesn’t know the famous ‘are you talking to me?’ scene from Taxi Driver? Well you can see film differently and ask yourself where Robert De Niro got the inspiration for this line. Check out this commercial for Volkswagen and see what could have happened. After the jump you can see a version for Silence of the lambs as well, which is equally brilliant.

DDB Stockholm is organizing an online beetle race for their client Volkswagen. No, not the cars, but actual beetles racing each other. DDB explains: There will be one race per day broadcast over a five-day period. Each race will consist of eight bugs, with the two fastest progressing from each heat to the final.
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The Volkswagen Front Assist checks with a radar the distance between your car and the car in front of you. Accompanied with an automatic brake system it’s part of new Volkswagen technology. So in a certain way it can predict your future like a Tarot card.

Volkswagen Amarok is the ultimate all terrain vehicle. It goes on everywhere, from mountains to the streets of urban jungles. To show that we created Facebook FlipBook. It consists of 200 images that are following each other. You just keep your finger on the -> button and flip through the album so fast that it turns into a never ending movie loop. By the Facebook Flipbook project they expanded the possibilites of the Facebook Platform by using the Photo Album as a new medium.

The interactive book tells the story of the most famous legend of the Brazilian folklore, the Saci.
During the adventure in the outback, the VW Space Cross plays with the character until it manages to captures it. Highly recommended for parents and children.

Volkswagen is keeping the Star Wars themes in their newest commercials. This one maybe has a different start, but the ending is typical the latest Volkswagen’s ads..