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Get your Fixx of the Saved By Zero Toyota ads

posted by matt | 10.27.08 | permalink | 7 comments |

Toyota has been running an ad campaign to advertise their 0% financing lately which uses a remade spruced-up-for-tv version of Saved By Zero by The Fixx. I’ve been seeing these on television for quite awhile now and the song has been pounded into my skull so much that I walk around singing “Saaaaaaved byyyyyyyyyyy zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerooo” on a regular basis. It wasn’t until recently, when Kristen mentioned that a friend had remarked about the original version of the song by The Fixx, that I connected the dots and realized it was a bastardized cover. Oh, what a feeling.

From Autoblog:

According to Bob Carter, general manager of the Toyota Division, the “Saved by Zero” ad campaign is building traffic and may be renewed when the program expires on November 3 (of course, he won’t tell us now because that may slow traffic down again). Dealerships are reporting an increase in sales leads due to the no-interest financing, and the drastic sales declines in September seem to have eased-off a bit so far this month.

The commercials go a little something like this:

Here’s the original version by The Fixx. It’s almost unrecognizable from the above.

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Tags: 0% financing, 00s tv commercials, oh what a feeling, saved by zero, the fixx, toyota

7 Comments

  • On 10.27.08 jamie wrote these pithy words:

    You know, The Fixx has a hit or two in the 80’s, then one thing leads to another and one of their songs is being featured in a 2008 Toyota comercial. Go figure.

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  • On 10.27.08 matt wrote these pithy words:

    @jamie – Well played.

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  • On 11.18.08 Tammy wrote these pithy words:

    who sings it? We think it’s Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult

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  • On 11.19.08 matt wrote these pithy words:

    @Tammy – You mean the TV version? Hmmm, not sure. The original is by The Fixx.

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  • On 11.19.08 Tammy wrote these pithy words:

    yea, We’re trying to find out who is doing the commercial version

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  • On 11.23.08 Jimmy Wu wrote these pithy words:

    He’s a talented guy from New England.

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  • On 11.24.08 Tammy wrote these pithy words:

    and who is this “talented guy from New England” ??

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