Video: Captiva has the last laugh in Shanghai
December 11, 2008 by George Skentzos
Marketing gurus earn rather healthy salaries in return for providing companies with the exposure they need to succeed in the marketplace – although seemingly all it takes is an angry woman from Shanghai.
In what has become a rather lucrative endorsement for the local Holden Captiva, this genuine video shows a lady arguing with a tow-truck driver before taking matters into her own hands – sure beats the current ‘Go Better’ campaign.
Tags: Holden Captiva
Absolutely brilliant, while the Ford Territory Turbo can only take on comparable SUV’s the Captiva can take on a Tow Truck using only its front wheels. nust ensure Holden get their hands on this footage for a advertising campaign. This is real life and not some controlled advert.
That is absolutely HILARIOUS!!!
spam word Holden ha ha ha
that is funny as ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I’d have top say it was set up though.
the wheels on the tow truck were moving meaning the handbrake was off, and it was out of gear.
still pretty funny
only place a daewoo captiva is any good……..in an advert…….
not as funny as the current Holden add where they reckon they spend more on R and D than any other company while in the background a Captiva drives off a boat !!! I didnt know putting a nHolden badge on a range of imported Daewoo vehicles was so expensive !!!!! Holden……..you are full of crap……lol
Rear main, you are the one full of crap. The Captiva is not even a Daewoo, it is a GM Daewoo only in name just as its a Holden Captiva, its also badged as a Chev, Opel and Vauxhall just to name a few. This was designed and built by General Motors not Daewoo and Mark Simcoe who if you do not already know is a Aussie (Your bias tells me that you conveniently forget the actual truth about a car because its a GM car). Daewoo was its own entity prior to GM buying it and this is not part of the old Daewoo like the Barina, Viva and Epica which by the way are soon to be replaced by GM built cars in South Korea so what are you going to say when these new cars come out and are actually very good cars. Will you still say its Daewoo Crap. I think you will just to be a idiot. Grow up.
The handbreak may have been off on the towtruck but that doesn’t mean its a stunt. I am not saying it isn’t but unless you were actually there no one could say it is or whether the towie left the handbreak off without fear of it rolling due to a flat road. No one knows except those involved in the video.
If you look closely at the holdenTX2 xconcept from a few years back you can see alot of captiva styling cues.
Frosty,
It is a Daewoo designed and built by Daewoo.
they change the name pretty much everywhere (except in its homeland) due to the bad reputation developed over the entire world.
sure the captiva is better than the other daewoo stuff, but its still a daewoo.
sure GM now own daewoo, but they still do the design in the same place
Just to add further, the captiva is actually called a “Daewoo Winstorm” in its home land
Stick to your story Andrew M. The majority know that there had been a total restructure at the company formaly known as Daewoo after they were bought by GM and that the Captiva was a product of GM Daewoo after the takeover to keep a company that was going bankrupt due to bad business dealings by its former CEO. Captiva has nothing to do with the former Daewoo end of story. The only thing it has to do with GM Daewoo is that its built in South Korea just as some Honda’s and the majority of utes are built in Thailand and some Volkswagons are built in Spain and some Fords have been built in South Africa.
O the TX2 was a concept of the Captiva just as there is another smaller SUV concept similar to the Captiva which as far as I know is still to be built although TX2 doesn’t sound right to me but there was a concept Holden at the Melbourne motor show some years back which came to be the Captiva and by memory the design work on it was commissioned prior to the acquisition on Daewoo by GM.
Correction acquisition of Daewoo
but it was still designed at the daewoo facility, and it wears a daewoo badge in its home land doesnt it…………. Yeeeeesssss
rear main was correct to call it a daewoo.
^^oh and built at the daewoo facility
It Is a Daewoo get over it Frosty. It is just another piece of GM Crap. Maybe tnats why they are broke ? Now i suppose you are gonna tell me its better than a Territory? Or a VE is as good as an FG ? Dream on……lol
by the way .my daughters friend went to the local Holden\Daewoo dealer and he told her the Barina was made in adelaide !!!! Another well trained Holdenwoo dealer!!!
Andrew M – stop being finnicky, you know what he means. What Frosty is saying though incase you don’t follow is that yes its still built in the same factory as what the “old” daewoo used to use, but the captiva, unlike the barina and viva, was designed 100% by the “new” GM-DAT led by the holden monaro designer mike simcoe as opposed to the barina and viva which was designed 100% by the previous “old daewoo” administration and was simply upgraded by the “new” GM-DAT. GM bought the daewoo factory and platforms but turfed just about everything else, the only reason they still use the name daewoo is because it actually has a reasonable reputation in korea so why not use it.
So essentially what he is saying is that yes it was designed int he old daewoo facility, wears a daewoo badge in its home land and is built in the old daewoo facility, BUT it is a 100% cleanskin GM design. Also those old daewoo facility have been comprehensively upgraded since the GM takeover.
So yes, techinically is a daewoo, but frosty comments of it being built 100% after the GM takeover and therefore it is not one of the “old daewoos” like the viva and barina is also 100% correct and it is a bit unfair to lump it into the same basket as the viva and barina.
I suspect you already know all of this though Andrew and you just like being difficult when it comes to the holden/daewoo argument… correct me if i’m wrong…
rear main – your just being a dill, there is a difference between being objective and just ranting crap about a company you just don’t like because your a fan of the opposing company, and you’ve found that difference!
Who cares if the VE is as good or not as good as the FG – you Ford numnuts are so blind you can’t see that GM outsells Ford in Australia in virtually every class of car.
Because you are blind and stupid, you resort to the childish jibe of “yours is smaller than mine” or “Holden products are crap”.
Grow up, tinybrains. Sales is all that keeps people in jobs, and Ford sales are worse than Holden sales.
Also the ford fans have a convieniantly short memory, for example the previous ford festiva was imported from Kia in korea and was a comprehensive peice of crap. They also dumped such crimes against the automotive world on us such as the taurus and the explorer. No no no, ford aren’t exempt from pathetically horrible models either….
So what Reckless, just because a product sells more than its competition, it makes it better?
Heck, then the Corolla is the best car in the world!
Spam word: Daewoo. (Captiva = Daewoo)
Always people on this site arguing in the commments. Ruining the site people.
Anyway, that video made me laugh out a loud! Hilarious haha
Richo,
i stopped reading your post a couple of sentences in cause it was obvious where it was heading.
Frosty tried to deny any connection between the captiva and daewoo when rear main reffered to it as daewoo.
as long as it is designed and built in the daewoo facility, anyone who refers to it as a daewoo is correct to do so.
what exactlly did Simcoe have to do with it??
did he design every last bit of it?? NO
even if he did, it would still be a daewoo.
its like a Korean working in the holden head quarters and having helped on a new holden project. would you then not call it a holden??
would it be fair to refer to it as a GM product rather than a holden product?? NO, it would still be a holden product because it was designed here and built here. the nationality of any assistants on the project, nor the companies true owner has nothing to do with it.
whats ford got to do with this??
you guys are implying as if a heap of people are in this thread saying ford this and that.
I myself dont think the daewoo product such as the barina deserves the crap it is copping. ive actually stuck up for the barina, but to try and say something coming from a daewoo factory isnt a daewoo, is just a statement from someone in denial
Yes Le,
it was a very funny video
Tim,
I didnt even bother replying to that comment.
reckless by name and commenting style
Andrew M – maybe you should have read the rest of my comment, i was saying that frosty was arguing that the captiva was developed 100% since the GM takeover, he wasn’t saying it doesn’t have any connection at all to daewoo, he was just making the (very valid) point that this car was designed 100% AFTER the GM takeover, making it as much a GM product as a commodore or a corvette, as opposed to the barina and viva which where just pathetic “old daewoos”.
Maybe if you had bothered to read all of my comment you would have been able to properly understand what i was saying, because at no point did i deny that it had come out of a daewoo factory and therefore was a daewoo product, i was simply pointing out that the design and development work was done since the GM takeover, making this product as much a GM as it is a Daewoo.
Also Andrew, read rear mains comments again, he was indeed drawing the comparisons to ford which you somehow missed
By the way Andrew, if your not going to read the full comment, then don’t reply in reference to it, because you will be replying to something you don’t full understand, as was obvious in your response.
:)) cool
All these children are starting to annoy me. With constant capitalisation, poorly constructed sentences and outright slander and unfounded criticism as a comment, without any sort of proof or reasoning to support their statement.
For example; the “that is crap” style comments, try explaining why you think that, and some proof to back up your point would not go a stray either. I would love some of you to try and pass a simple year 10 english essay where you have to convince the reader to one side of the argument, I really would.
Please, the large majority of people who visit this site really could not care the slightest about the childish dribble alot of you post regarding what you think is better or worse, get over it, you may think something different to someone else. No one is stopping you from thinking what you think, but we don’t need to hear the same rubbish posted on every bloody article.
Grow up or shut up!
Holden sell the second rate VE to fleets at virtually no profit. But even that isnt enough to keep it shutting down its production line for another month. 11,000 VE pontiacs sitting unsold in the USA is a sign of how the Yanks have finally discovered how crap a Commodore is.
I could tell you Ford Fans quite a few true stories about Ford OZ built cars but as I need to go to work now I will wait till another time but trust me they are not pretty. Thanks Reckless, these Ford Numnuts are just jealous fools who are colour blind only to the colour blue. The Captiva is a good car and the Holden Commodore was again winner of the People’s choice award for at least the third time in a row and sales it has won for at least the last 12 years. Thats all that matters in the car industry “Sales”. Thats what their in it for.
Funny video.
As for the Daewoo comments, the childish posts and the inability to accept the reality of a new set up really speaks for itself.
Yes holden are happy to sell second rate vehicles to Holden bogans …….look at all the reviews …Holden cars are far behind all others in every segment ……..Sales? anyone knows fleets buy the cheapest nastiest cars because they get flogged. Fleet sales are where Holden can get away with poor reliability poor fuel consumption outdated engine and transmissions crappy plastic interior all if which the VE has in spades!!! so frosty take off your mocasins comb over your mullett and go drive a descent car. Any stories about Ford cars you have will have no credibility anyway…..anyone can make up crap just to get back at someone you numbnut!!!!!! I drive the best car ever made here……FG XR6 Turbo ute…….go try one…….there is no Holden or HSV anywhere near as good.
Frosty…go to Drive website and read the VE Omega review…….says it all really.
Cool vid.
And I agree with Martin
OMG, an argument about a Craptiva! LOL…
I’ll have a Tiguan, thanks! :)
Has it occured to anyone that maybe Frosty owns a Daewoo Captiva…I mean Holden yeah.
The Captiva is a horrible car. Cheap quality and unreliable. There is no denial that this car is “crap”.
It was even proven by an early Wheels issue, where A Mazda CX7 smashed a Captiva in comparison. It is revealed that the Captiva was bulit in as a collaboration effort between Holden and GM-Daewoo The Holden/Daewoo showed its true colours after having to be towed away (Ha towed again) because the power steering hose clip broke during a three point one turn.
A new car and already broken. WOW what quality. Clearly all these pro-Captiva fans are brainwashed and they shouldn’t even try and defending themselves as it will only result in them further embarassing themselves.
i wonder if this is a smart piece of stealth marketing…it’s so easy now adays with youtube and other user driven type mediums, anyone can post stuff up, spread it to a few key people and before you know it have a viral campaign going.
If you think the car is crap or not they are sold on a global scale and sell pretty well.
Luv the video footage even if people think it was staged.
Rear Main, I’m not a Holden fan but i fail to see why a company would invest over $1 billion into the development of a vehicle that wasn’t going to return a proffit.
The fact that Holden is now able to sell a Commodore at $29 990 drive away highlights this. They may be selling them at brake even or a little below now but when it was launched they would have been making $7-8k per vehicle.
As for the Holdeawoo argument, it is what it is and it isn’t going to change any time soon. Holden has dedicated itself to pleasing the motoring enthousiast with HSV, but it also has to turn a proffit and it has seen importing Korean counterparts to try and achieve this. Yes the Viva is a piece of shit with poor build quality, lackluster performance etc but if it didn’t import these cars just as many people would be complaining about a lack of value in the Holden range.
Bottom Line
Holdeawoos = percieved value for money and therefore more customers
Nick To build a basic VE Commodore costs Holden Approx $20K per car – and given they buy the components is bulk they would receive substantial discounts so it wouldn’t cost them too much more to build an SS or Calais
BTW: Holden have almost recovered the $1 Capital Investment Cost of the VE
As for the Korean Cars,,,, the initial plan created by Denny Mooney was to import Holden Badged GM-Daewoos such as Captivas and Barinas inorder to make a profit. mainly because at the time the Korean exchange rate was more favourable than the Euro
However; given that the popularity of the Barina has fallen compared to what it was when Holden used Opel Corsas… they are having to reduce the prices of Barinas which reduces the intended profit or make a loss.
If they went back to importing Opels even though the codst of the cars may be a little bit more than the GM Daewoos; given that the Opels were/are more popular they would sell more and thereby reducing the cost per unit to around the same of a GM Daewoo Barina
I hope Mark Reuss decides to go back to importing Opels
Yes the Daewoo may be crap However; you got to remember how crap Hyundais were when it was first released in Australia.
It wasn’t until substantial investment was made by Kia [who now own Hyundai and I recall built the Ford Festiva Hatch] that there products gradually improved to what it is today
Therefore you’d expect that overtime given the investment by GM Daewoos products will also gradually improve.
I can’t believe people are still buying Daewoo products, many of us couldn’t wait to see them leave the country because they lacked respect, but when GM-Holden slap on a lion badge, all of a sudden Daewoo sell more than ever, talk about one-eyed syndrome, I bet over 50% of the owner’s don’t even know what they are driving, seriously “VERY SAD INDEED”..
Hyundai now owns Kia and they have both advanced in leaps and bounds since the woeful Festiva which was nothing but a nightmare to every one i knew who owned one, however Daewoo has been around for just as long and have seemed to remain stagnent in the last 8 years with the compacts they have produced. I think it reflects on GM\’s desier to use Daewoo as a cost effective stop gap in home and foreign markets rather than developing it, like Hyundai or Kia, as a higher quality manufacturer.
What this will do to Holdens long term reputation is unknown.
A friend of mine owns both a new astra and captiva and is yet to complain about the captiva although i don\’t think the long term quality is there and with the aussie dollar as low as it is i don\’t believe Opels will make a return in the next product cycle but my pipeline dream is for the Torana concept to be pushed in to production as an Epica replacement, they could even use it to develop Pontiac as a nieche Australian brand.
Clever little viral video there.
These are often more effective than your standard ad.
Nick; The Torana is expected to make a comeback and will either replace the Epica or sit between it and the COmmodore.
However; it’s more likely that the Torana won’t be an all Aussie design like the VE Commodore; but will based on the new Opel Insignia [which can accept RWD FWD and AWD] – so it will be a Torana in name only
Yet there have been reports thast Holden has plans to build a medium/small car here [just like Ford] it could still well be an Aussie Built sedan like the old Toranas… wait and see I guess
And if you read the Jan 09 issue of Motor you will see HSV have plans to expand their range which could include the Insignia and maybe even the Opel Corsa.. so they may stop selling Daewoo sourced Barinas as a Holden – but continue to sell them as a sepperate brand.. Like Daihatsu is to Toyota
As for developing the Pontiac name in Oz; I expect Pontiac will be one of the first companies to go [along with Buick] as part of GMs Restructuring/streamlining process.
Jut keep their more “traditonal” well known brands Chevrolet Cadillac and if they are smart Holden and Opel.
Saw this earlier on Facebook,funny as! This would be a made in China version anyhow,cars are too expensive to import into China .
Why are we discussing Korea when this meant to be a funny video!
Pity it wasnt rear wheel drive only,that would have been funny watching her try to take off,dumb cow!
sorry, i mean developing Pontiac in the U.S with Australian products, it’d help out our manufacturing sector.
I doubt that GM Holden would relaunce Daewoo in Australia though, it’d lower the resale value of Holdeawoo’s agrovating customers as well as causing to much confusion.
At the moment it seem’s that manufacturers should be consolidating brands not re-launching old ones with horrible reputations.
As for the HSV expansion, i havnt seen a copy of motor on the shelf for months. I assumed that Top Gear Australia had killed it. Sounds interesting though, so ill keep an eye out for it.
Saw this the other day, was most amusing.
But it shows how the AWD system in the Captiva works; biasing it to the front wheels before the rear. Although, if I’m not mistaken (and come to think of it), isnt the 2WD version of Captiva FWD?
But anyway, yay for diesel torque ^_^ It even tows other trucks away with it =p
Lols at video,
I hope we get the new Insignia, it would be good if it was the vehicle Holden want to built in Oz, cheaper then bring it from Germany.
I honestly don’t see the point of bring Pontiac to Oz, if it did become a niche brand in the US, they’d most likely only sell the Solstice and the G8. The Solstice is LHD only and the G8 is just a Commodore, why sell the Commodore with two brand in one country if it is the same car.
It would be good if Holden only sold Opel products (and the Commodore). Then we could have a similar setup to Europe and how they sell Opels and then Daewoos as Chevys. Instead mixing them into one brand like Holden have been attempting to do.
i don’t think daewoo could stand alone in australia agian, however, in Europe GM uses Chevrolet for Daewoo products where Daewoo has a similarly poor reputation. Hence why the Chevy Volt will most likely be launched as the Opel Volt in the US. But again, the Australian car market is already over saturated and launching a new brand is expensive so i don’t think GM Holden will launch a new brand other than Cadilac any time soon.
the Chevy Volt will most likely be launched as the Opel Volt in the UK*
that is the FUNNIEST thing i seen all week..
i love it….
I drove up to Melbourne the other day…guess what I saw ? about 10 acres of unsold brand new VE Commodes!!! Thousands of them……..just to match the 11,000 sitting in the USA as Pontiacs……..yep reckless…..they are selling like hotcakes !!!! lol lol lol
Nick.the reason they are selling for that cheap price is so they can sell some not because they have re-couped the Billion they spent, they are no where near breaking even on the investment…….not even close !!!! They are in real financial trouble, Holden, they have no money and there will be a big shock announcement in the near future regarding Holden in australia……..just wait for it.
fake – but funny all the same,
c’mon guys, Captivas are now made in Thailand, it was in CNN last week where they showed a GM factory worker worried about losing their jobs but are proud of the captivas they produced
Alloys, you are total cretin. So you intimately know Holdens finacials do you. No I doubt you have enough brains to be able to understand a profit and loss statement. Where did you pull your statement from? Between your cheeks? How do you know HOLDEN is in financial trouble??? How do you know they have not covered their VE costs? They sell the VE in Australia, NZ, USA Korea, China Thailand, South Africa just to name a few. Do you know how many they sell??? Do you understand that part of the VE cost was the engine plant and tooling. The same engine that powers the Capativa, Some Suzukis, Alfa Romeo’s. How many engines did Holden send all around the world??? How profitable are they now at $0.64/1.00???
Yes their was a big statement about Holden. That they will be here for at least 20 years, that they belive they can get the fuel economy under 10ltrs/100.
You are just a foll that should keep his stupid comments to himself. If Holden were to fold there is a fair chance Ford and possibly Toyota would follow suit because MOST OF THE SUPPLIERS SUPPLY ALL THREE. Without all three manufactures here then the SUPPLIERS WILL FOLD AS WELL. Ford and Toyota have both made these statements in print. Then what? Well golly lets put 100′000 people out of work. Thats 14′000 directs plus a ratio of 7 to 1 indirects.
But then in the hope that you can read this blog, I doubt you will understand it, because once a fool then always a fool.
Captiva has the last laugh? I’ll have the last laugh when this abomination of a car is euthanised after GM chokes on its own product.
Congratulations Rear Main you drive an FG XR6T UTE!
Now if it was the FG XR6T sedan I may agree with the best made aussie product(in terms of value for money anyway)
But because you drive a FG XR6T Ute you pretty much have purchased a ute not even as good as a VE SS.
You come here to bag a Captiva when your car has rear suspention from the 70`s. Have fun going fast in a straight line, because going around corners and stopping are not really your cars strong points.
Oh well at least you like aussie cars, can`t be that bad a bloke I guess.
Frosty,
It is a Daewoo. Designed and engineered by them in South Korea.
The only Craptiva that is NOT built in SK is the Maxx model, which is the european, top of the line version. Also marketed in the US as the Saturn Vue.
The Holden Captivas are the best SUV’s on the market, beats a gas guzzling over priced Territory any day.
imugli,
just so you know.captiva started in korea.moved to thailand.recently back to korea(ALL MODELS)maxx was for opel europe,just didn’t take off here.look to the maxx to rebirth itself as a despec’t sx in the future.you heard it here first…
Ford Territory is the best SUV ever to grace Australian roads, beats a gas guzzling, over priced, smelly rotten egg Holden Daewoo Craptiva anyday, made in Thailand and returning to slave labor Korean workers, how reject can you get, slapping lion badges on them is a disgrace to our automotive industry.
Anti-Spam word: XR8 (OH YEAH BABY NOW THATS A CAR FOR REAL ENTHUSIASTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Aussiecars,
your comment suggests you have never driven a well tuned leaf sprung car……..
Andrew M….I will admit I havent driven anything made after 1990 with leaf springs seriously. But shocked your defending him with this comment
Rear main said “FG XR6 Turbo ute…….go try one…….there is no Holden or HSV anywhere near as good.”
Not really true is it. Most reviews I have read gives the thumbs up to the VE SS and the only reason FG XR6T won this years MOTOR BFYB is its price. Most Judges said they would buy an SS ute over it.
I know the FG range on a whole is better in alot more areas than the VE (so it should be its newer) Its just out of all the perfomance fords/FPV`s he has one of the lower spec cars yet claims it to be better than any HSV and Holden….Either your a blind Ford fan to make such a comment or you know nothing about Fords/Holdens.
I like the FG`s the only reason I commented is he seems a bit full of himself. Just trying to bring him down to earth with some facts. Rear Main you drive a nice car, but maybe you should go drive some HSV`s or an SSV before you make such a comment.