Volkswagen keeps your crazy dreams at bay

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In a week of fantastical commercials, I figured Kia's furnished-forest spot would be the ultimate driver dreamscape. Not even close. The prize goes to Volkswagen and DDB Berlin for a pair of hallucinatory ads that fuse wordplay and playful (but mildly unsettling) imagery to illustrate the car's Lane Assist feature, which wakes you up by "vibrating when you drift off." In one spot, a giant fox gives instructions to a foxy babe. In the second (after

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