What were your favorite VW commercials from "back in the day" (whenever that was)?

Besides the ones in our gallery, there are several that I remember. Keeping in mind that I had ZERO interest in VWs until the mid-1990s, it says a lot about the effectiveness of the commercial when I can remember them 40 years later.

Here's the tail end of my favorite Ghia commercial:


Then there's the one where archeologist in the future (2270) unearth a Beetle . . . a guy in it rolls down the window, thanks them and drives off.  Russ found it, but it's dubbed in another language:

The snowplow commercial. I had never wondered how the guy that plows the roads got to work in the morning!!!!

Zen must not look in the gallery much...we don't have any commercials in there anymore. The new gallery software didn't support video files, so I moved them all over to YouTube. Here's a playlist of 'em all:

Speaking of fan-made commercials, don't forget about this one for "Slobonium". First here's the original commercial for "Turbonium".



And the parody with, you guessed it, a bus.