VW can smell your old junker a mile away

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This is a one-joke spot by CreativeOnDemand touting Volkswagen's CareFree Maintenance program. Luckily, the twist is skillfully camouflaged until just the right moment and the payoff doesn't disappoint. Some shops would've blown this concept and taken things too far, perhaps tacking on a fantasy finale with folks peeling off their faces to reveal aliens beneath. We're spared that fate, but the talking VW Beetle does make a cameo for no real reason. If there's a better spokes-car hidden inside that annoyingly accented auto, it had better emerge soon, because Das Shtick is really starting to bug me.

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