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Toyota advertising “Air conditioning as standard” sounds about as exciting as another Sunday evening sat in front of the box watching another sodding repeat of Antiques Roadshow with Grandma. Fair play to the advertising bods behind this little gem then for making it as far removed from that as possible. Call it what you want, smuggling peanuts, smuggling tic-tacs, a pair of glass cutters, you get the idea.
“Explain this to the insurance” screams the headline on this next clip and quite frankly who could? Motoring claims can range from the sublime to the ridiculous, from frozen squirrels to flying fruit but none are as good as this freak show. You’d reckon parking 200m away from an F1 track would leave your motor pretty safe right? Think again as you slowly watch the bouncing tyre reach its inevitable conclusion. As with many things in life, what seems obviously simple can in fact prove to be the complete opposite. If you’re a complete moron that is! A pleasant afternoon’s shopping turns into complete farce for one unfortunate woman. Exit multi-storey car park? Check. Found parking ticket? Check. Drive near enough the machine to enter ticket? Negative. Stand on accelerator pedal while stretching to reach machine? Doh! Many of our eagle-eyed readers may well have already seen this canine triumph currently doing the rounds on the telly. For those of you with a social life, the combination of the new Volkswagen Polo, a singing dog and a cracking track from Brummie music maestro Steve Winwood probably is too good to miss. Crank up the testosterone levels, and turn up the volume to eleven, it’s time to join in with the mutt. Altogether now: “I’m a maaaaaaaaaaan…..”