Old oil ad featuring GTV6

Started by L4OMEO, December 20, 2011, 07:29:36 AM

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L4OMEO

Back in the eighties there was an ad on TV for one of the oil brands (Castrol, I think). I believe it was filmed in NZ and it featured an Audi Quattro, a series I Toyota MR2, and a GTV6, racing ... sorry, driving fast in convoy down a twisty public road. In one shot the GTV6 was chucked into a tight right-hander, howling and nicely sideways (shades of the GTV6 scene in Octopussy, but much cooler circumstances), with the MR2 right up its date. The voice-over went "Not even the Germans, or Italians, or Japanese, can make a car to break this oil". Even for its pre-Nanny state time this ad pushed the limits, so they revised it - not by culling all the fast driving shots, but by superimposing a 'Road Closed' sign at the side of the road at the first sequence.

Does anyone else recall this ad? I'd love to see it again but haven't been able to find it anywhere on the interweb. Sheldon - as an ex-Kiwi does ring any bells with you?

BTW they were sooo racing....
2002 156 GTA