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New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:14 pm
by 220 GSi turbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXmuBN10ZA
K124KMV comes up as green on the DVLA site, so they must have given it a paint job for this ad
Re: New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:38 am
by Topcat Tomcat
I hope no R8 was permanently damaged in the making of this advert?!


Re: New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:55 am
by Paul_1978_yorks
Re: New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:50 pm
by 220 GSi turbo
Great spots, Paul!
In the Ribena ad, it would have been nice if all four doors could have fallen off the Golf simultaneously on impact, but no doubt some German lawyers would have soon been on the case......
Re: New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:55 pm
by Johnny 216GSi
Topcat Tomcat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:38 am
I hope no R8 was permanently damaged in the making of this advert?!

Nah. Like on one of the "Rover Service" TV ads, they just unbolt things and push them out from the inside. You can make a rear lamp cluster look damaged if you undo the bolts and have someone in the boot whack the studs with a hammer so it falls out on cue, dangling by the wiring loom. The bumper in the Ribena add has been done the same way I would have thought.
I'd be more worried about the stunt bicycle rider rolling over the bonnet, but it is a phase 2 with grille and no-one wants them anyway

Re: New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:29 pm
by Julesmat50
Johnny 216GSi wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:55 pm
I'd be more worried about the stunt bicycle rider rolling over the bonnet, but it is a phase 2 with grille and no-one wants them anyway
I must be the exception

I much prefer the phase 2's to the phase 1.

Re: New Ribena TV ad featuring an R8 (and an Escort)
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:42 am
by GTiJohn
And who spotted the back end of a blue 93MY 5-door R8 in the 3rd episode of the BBC's 'Crossfire'?
It looks accidental rather than staged to me.