Dang! I can't count how many times I've seen this ad -- and never noticed the dragon-shape in the mist (0:42-0:44) b4. Which just happens to appear right before hot (literally: sweaty) little drummer-girl stops for 3/4 of a second & says "whew." They wouldn't spend the $ on that (CGI was way more expensive just a few years ago) unless they knew it'd pay off (from focus-group tests etc). So I wonder how many more people bought an Eclipse bcs of a 1 1/2-second shot of a subliminal dragon?
Ha! I remember this commercial. I kept getting annoyed because I wanted to watch the drummers and they kept showing the stupid car instead. Now I'm in a taiko group - it's really fun!
The commercial that sold my hubby on the 06, and being a Second Gen DSMer, It sold me too (although I havn't gotten one). Brilliant Advertising as always, my one complaint is the lack of an AWD Platform. But Commercial wise, this was just absolutly brilliant!
Eclipse had an AWD version, the GSX, powered by the turbocharged 2.0-liter Sirius 4G63 engine, from 1990 to 1994. Chrysler Corporation also sold it at Jeep-Eagle dealerships as the Eagle Talon TSi AWD and at Chrysler-Plymouth dealers as the Plymouth Laser RS AWD Turbo from 1992 to 1994.
