RED Driving School – A Better Life
1 November 2010 by SilkyRED Driving School has previous on TV’s Worst Adverts. A post that has drawn some pretty angry reader comments about the company (have you people not read the comments policy?). And further to our hard-hitting, research-free, blog-based rant RED (“Always in capitals – the branding’s the cornerstone of our success”) Driving Schools have become something of a cause célèbre for light-weight, bald-headed, tv-based consumer programmes.
But clearly having learnt their lesson after all this negative publicity, the latest advert from RED really reins in the hyperbole and simply promises us “a better life” if we become a driving instructor. It’s good to know we’re not subjected to that nonsense about choosing your own hours and earning 30 grand a year. What’s that? They do that too? Just with slightly different words? Oh.
Anyways, it’s now generally accepted that the paradise, the spotty-faced milk and honey RED Driving School and that dead-eyed Anita Dobson wannabe previously promised us might not be quite so peachy. So let’s not go over old ground again. K? K?
And as it happens there seems to be a far more worrying issue raised by this latest advert – a shocking lack of knowledge when it comes to the basics of the highway code. The website being pimped by the ad is go-red.co.uk.
Go red?
No, no, no, Red. Stop red. Go green – and flashing amber if it’s safe to do so.
Tsk, tsk.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(10 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
6Responses:
euch
Said on the 2 November 2010
What’s that grey thing in the background at 0.43 secs? It looks dodgy to me. There again I do have a one track mind!
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 2 November 2010
Ummmmmm…… comments policy?? What the hell is that? Whatever it is, I think it was broken and stomped to bits last year……Glad to see you back and posting though silky
Silky
Said on the 4 November 2010
Ha! Yeah, fair point Jellyfish.
Must. Try. Harder.
Karens
Said on the 24 January 2011
Appropriate page “tvs worst adverts” for Red. They also seem to have a dodge link building strategy to get their website to the top of the listings.
Also not hearing good reports about working for them, but then again I am their competition
UK TV Ads
Said on the 7 March 2011
Well this ad REALLY makes me want to sign up right away… (Can you here the sarcasm loud enough? lol)
nikamota
Said on the 20 October 2011
Hehehehe….but the most funny amusing thing about driving schools and tuition…heeheehee….is that…hohohohoheehee….is that none of us actually need a licence..hehehe…we all have the right to travel freely in our carraige of choice….hoooohooooheeeeeeheeeeehaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa!….a licence is permission you see..haahaahaa….and we dont actually need permission from anyone….HAAAHHAAAAHHEEEEHEEEEHOOOOOHAAHHAHHEEHEEHOO…(and that is a fact my friends)