Toyota Motor Europe (TME) together with its consultancy arm of Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) presented a new Toyota’s ‘Window to the World’ vehicle concept in a simulation video.
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The UK division of Spanish auto brand Seat, which loves music as much as cars (and proves it all the time by launching new projects revolving around music), has kicked off a new campaign, celebrating the brand’s partnership with Universal Music, on social media platform. As part of it, Seat is offering its followers on Twitter and Facebook a chance to listen to up to 750,000 music tracks, presented by Universal Music—all this for visiting local dealers and booking a Seat test drive.
Greenpeace, which has recently launched a campaign against Mattel (and Barbie, who turned to be a serial killer), now is targeting another manufacturing giant—the Volkswagen Group (unfortunately, the ‘Think Blue.’ philosophy didn’t save the largest carmaker in Europe from disgrace). The environmental activists are turning VW’s battery against it: the much loved ‘The Force’ Superbowl commercial (which got Gold Lion in ‘Film’ at 2011 Cannes Lions) featuring ‘little Dart Vader’ inspired a parody video, launched by Greenpeace to raise awareness of the automaker’s lobbying against cuts to carbon emissions—and drive the manufacturer to greener standards.
MINI France has recently launched a captivating advergame called ‘Mini Maps’. It’s a Facebook app that lets users customise a virtual MINI and race virtually on a Google Maps mash-up. Satellite images add a realistic feeling and option that allows to create own tracks and explore their dream destinations makes the advergame a fun and smart innovation.