Comments on: Rampenfest: Viral Ad Launches New Beemer Straight from Bavaria to USA with a Giant Ramp

By: redklikk

redklikk — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:20:26 +0000

I agree! It’s definitively the best viral ad, especially of the automotive ones!

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By: SiteSeer

SiteSeer — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:25:23 +0000

Common misnomer:
beemers are BMW motorcycles,
bimmers are BMW cars.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:56:46 +0000

beer… smoking… *skip* … beer… smoking… *skip* … more beer… more smoking…

Definitly German.

By: rohin

rohin — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:46:20 +0000

This is a slightly bizarre campaign, but quite fun in its insanity. I agree though, few people are going to sit through such a long video.

There’s more about the campaign on a forum I post on, here: http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4776. Follow some of the links, there is some really bonkers stuff about the fictitious town of Oberpfaffelbachen.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:08:48 +0000

Are they insane? Who is going to sit through a 30 minute advert?

By: snarky1

snarky1 — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:03:32 +0000

Joan Aiken used this idea in a children’s book called “Nightbirds in Nantucket”. Only it’s a cannon built to shoot a cannonball across the Atlantic ocean and assassinate the King of England. Loved those books…!

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:59:14 +0000

Ill have to watch it when i have some spare time. I got about ten minutes in and, while I thought it was cute, I got bored and wanted to see the payoff

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:31:22 +0000

I’m amazed that you would even ask that.

Theoretically it is possible, though not with a regular car, nor probably staying within the earth’s atmosphere since you have no additional thrust nor steering capabilities while airborne. In fact, I’d wager you NEED to get outside the atmosphere considering that the wind resistance from a craft traveling the sufficient speed if you’re going need to stay within the atmosphere would tear pretty much anything apart. Thusly you’d need a vehicle capable of reentry without burning up, not to mention it needs to be pressurized for the “pilot’s” comfort and survival, among other things.

This is definitely one of those things which are better left on the drawing board, or in viral videos.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:31:32 +0000

Is that even possible!?

By: bean

bean — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:09:11 +0000

ICBB? (intercontinental ballistic beemer?)