Old Citroen Advertisements

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Old Citroen Advertisements

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I was looking for something airline history related and stumbled on this site:

www.advertisingarchives.co.uk

You can browse for free, ignore the exhortation to register, you only pay if you want to download images. Put Citroen in the search box and 60+ adverts appear, click magnifying glass for a closer look.

Among them the classic black and white DS ones, charming 2CV ones, and the utterly tasteless 2004 C2 campaign: would you buy a car advertised as "knicker dropper glory" (their words,not mine). I think my favourite is Advance and be Recognised, but its a close run thing.
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The slogan that made me squirm was for the C4 when it first came out.

"Alive with Technology"

Makes me shudder just thinking about it.
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Paul-R wrote: 21 Feb 2018, 19:04 "Alive with Technology"


And in a few years 'Alive with a collection of bizarre electrical problems' :lol:
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Paul-R wrote: 21 Feb 2018, 19:04 The slogan that made me squirm was for the C4 when it first came out.

"Alive with Technology"

Makes me shudder just thinking about it.


I thought it was a good line and worked brilliantly with the robot ad (which was also brilliant). It certainly captured the minds of the target market at the time (my mates and I were in it, we all thought it was brilliant and one even went and bought one!)
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wurlycorner wrote: 22 Feb 2018, 09:55
Paul-R wrote: 21 Feb 2018, 19:04 The slogan that made me squirm was for the C4 when it first came out.

"Alive with Technology"

Makes me shudder just thinking about it.


I thought it was a good line and worked brilliantly with the robot ad (which was also brilliant). It certainly captured the minds of the target market at the time (my mates and I were in it, we all thought it was brilliant and one even went and bought one!)


You were actuially in the ad?
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:lol:
Nope, sorry that didn't read right :lol:
I meant we were in the target market at the time...
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2x '85 CX GTi Turbo s2 t1 (metallic silver & grey)
'88 CX GTi Turbo s2 T2 (metallic light blue)
CX DTR T2 Safari (silver)
2x '96 Xantia Activa (Black & metallic green)
'01 C5 2.0 HDi LX Estate (Blue)