Toyota's Prius Commercial Essay

First and foremost, basic needs (safety and physiological) were met by the demonstration of a safe, secure, versatile, and reliable vehicle that will meet the consumers demands. Psychological needs (belongingness and esteem) were also met throughout the commercial. Kia’s eco-friendly car packs high fuel economy and touts environmental consciousness all while making us laugh at the comicality of the commercial. Consumers should feel good about themselves while driving this vehicle, knowing that it “helps save the environment.” Those who drive this vehicle should also feel a sense of “high status” knowing that driving their car, instead of a gas guzzler, is equivalent to volunteering your time to environmental

Overall, this commercial might give fathers ideas on what car is the right one for their child. Logos, ethos and pathos can be found in this Super Bowl commercial. Logos and ethos were used to mislead parents to buy the car in the future or in the present.Pathos was used transform feelings to the audience. Also, it would be controversial to say to buy this car because it might not be useful if parents are not able to track down their sons or daughters with a one mile radius or people have to have access through a Smart

Over 17 million cars and trucks are sold around the world every year. Amongst the plethora of car companies aiming to convince shoppers that their car is paramount, marketing teams ought to go the extra mile. By developing a persuading advertisement, companies are more likely to sell their products. On February 6, 2011, Volkswagen aired a Superbowl commercial for the first time in over ten years. This commercial would be one that awakens the inner child of millions. By employing pathos, ethos, and logos rhetoric techniques, Volkswagen is able to appeal to consumers in order to sell their new car.

Being in a spiralling economy, the automobile industry must step up their games to produce attractive advertisements. Creativity is crucial to attract potential buyers and gain more sales. To target specific prospects through ads, the automobile industry usually apply rhetoric concepts to enhance their product’s appeal in every way, and not just purely on the automobile designs. As men are the main target audience, car ads are usually being advertised as appealing and dangerous. Nevertheless, there are other important aspects to be highlighted as well, which can be perfectly marketed with certain rhetoric aspects. Although automobile ads always target the male audience, the industry also understands how partners or family can influence in purchase

Subaru and Hyundai are extremely popular, reliable car companies. In the Subaru commercial, a little kid is driving around in his toy car and the dad offers the key to the Subaru Legacy to him, but he turns them down because he realizes the amount of responsibility that comes with those keys. In the Hyundai commercial, the daughter goes on a date with a guy, and the overprotective dad follows them around to check on what they are doing. These two car commercial use pathos, ethos, and logos to show how good their products are and what it provides.

An advertisement is a paid notice that tells people about a product or service(Advertisement). One of the biggest platforms on TV for an advertisement is the Super Bowl. It is by far the most watched TV event every year. A platform this big cost a lot of money. Super Bowl XLVII and Super Bowl XLVIII cost on average $4 million for only thirty seconds of airtime(Schwartz). Toyota used this platform to introduce the all new Prius 4 during Super Bowl 50 when they aired their commercial, The Longest Chase. This ninety second commercial cost Toyota a bunch of money but, the company believed that it was worth the price. This advertisement shows that the Hybrid group, like the Prius, are the way to go now. And the car’s power and performance are enough to turn any drive into an event worth sharing with the entire world. This Toyota commercial uses reasoning (logos) and emotion (pathos) to show why everyone should own the all new Prius 4.

This commercial starts out during a pee wee football game and one of the team’s quarterback gets sacked. The dad of the quarterback says, “That’s alright son, get right back up”. Then a bright red Buick convertible car pulls into the parking lot and is immediately recognized by one of the dads in the stands. Then an attractive woman steps out of it

All three car commercials are advertising their cars, they want to sell the car to you. They put on a show, a short show in this case. They figured out the best way to get you hooked is by using pathos, an emotional connection. In fact, not only do they connect emotionally, they secretly throw in reasons, logos, why you should buy their car.

The commercial presents a direct argument situation. The events of the commercial do not provide much backing information about how the car runs or what extra special features the car has; it only provides an emotional and uplifting short story to force the audience into believing in the reliability of the car. By juxtaposing the car with something that most of the general population connects with, the audience will more than likely feel persuaded into believing in the product. This particular discourse assumes the audience’s emotional connection with pets or familial relationships and lays out the reasoning as to why the audience needs that particular car. Through the presentation of the central claim, the commercial, effectively yet simply, portrays the argument in a way that leads the audience to feel a certain way.

The ad was guided towards a more diverse crowd, but a younger crowd as well. The new Prius shows off how much horsepower it has for a hybrid car and how reliable this car is in different situations. For example helping you brake to prevent collisions and great steering control. The message Toyota has set up for us is that their new Prius is very safe, cautious and fast hybrid, it's like no other. The consumers should expect from this is that owning a Prius is beneficial for the environment and that this car is very efficient, but also it's still stylish and a lot of people will admire you as the driver.

Advertisements have been used over hundreds of years with the goal of persuading their viewers to obey their message. Ads have become ubiquitous in our lives, from magazines pages to the sides of buses, each trying in various ways to convince the consumer that they need to purchase the specific product. This year, Honda released a commercial for the 2016 Civic that displays the car driving out of the designer’s brain with the flow of his imagination. It contains no dialogue and ends with the written words, “Direct from our imagination”. The advertisement for the Civic uses aspects of appealing to positive emotion, source credibility and appealing to broad cultural values to effectively persuade young first-time car buyers to purchase their

This essay will use a semiotic analysis approach in order to send a message to the buyer and to the rest of the world. An analysis of cultural myths will be conducted on how males, automotive and nature are often seen and used in advertisement. An understanding of social and political views will be discussed in conjunction with the common consumerism view in different advertisement. “Signs may take the form of words, images, sounds odours, flavours, acts, objector camera angles” (Danesi, 202, p. 31). Retrieved from Pelin and Banu (2015) or “Paradigmatic and syntagmatic analysis are, also, applied to textual and visual signs in the automotive ads, in order to reveal the reflections of sustainability issues (Saussure,1983, p. 115). Retrieved from Pelin and Banu (2015). The magazines chosen for this essay has produce many advertisement of cars for different demographic, and two of the advertisement from both magazines would be analyze throughout the essay.

Should the new Toyota president accelerate the launch scheduled for the Toyota Prius? The plan to introduce the car “at the end of 1998 with expected production of 1000 units per month…” (Reinhardt, Yao & Egawa, 2006) is an extremely aggressive and ambitious goal; but, is it in TMC’s best interest to speed up the planned launch? There is no doubt that the new president (Hiroshi Okuda) is under extreme pressure to compete in a global market, he believes the company should radically alter its image to attract new customers and gain a competitive advantage while systematically facilitating environmentally-socially responsible practices. It may very well be that TMC should push for a faster

Subaru Canada is selling a new type of car advertisement which shows deviance to societal norms by changing the image of what people think is sexy. Sex sells is a long standing phrase that can be used to define the advertising industry and before this commercial was released many manufacturers marketed “sexy” car advertisements using Sports Illustrated swimsuit models or models of a similar stature. Subaru in lieu of the sexy bikini models has chosen to express their individuality by chosen a cultural representation to poke fun at traditional advertising.

4. Technological environment has also increase the sales of the Prius. With its advance technology and many features has impressed the world of the technology buff as well as the modern customer who wants practical but affordable. (Kotler & Armstrong, Principles of Marketing, 2010) Toyota is aware that the technology wave is a spectacular movement that shapes our marketing environment today and uses this to their advantage by incorporating affordable luxury in the Toyota Prius.