, an Italian woman sits atop a swing that dances across an abandoned city street while chanting the ABCs in the most chilling manner I’ve ever heard. The ad in question is a Fiat 500X teaser (which you can check […] "'Pin It")
Fiat 500X Teaser Is Incredibly Eerie
Who knew that the ABCs could be so haunting?
The new Fiat 500X teaser is the stuff of nightmares.
In the latest weird ad from Fiat (and trust me, there are a lot of them), an Italian woman sits atop a swing that dances across an abandoned city street while chanting the ABCs in the most chilling manner I’ve ever heard. The ad in question is a Fiat 500X teaser (which you can check out below) and is the type of hellish nightmare one gets after watching Pee-wee’s Playhouse alone late at night with the lights turned off.
The idea behind the Fiat 500X teaser is that the swinging woman who is chanting the ABCs stops right before X—at W, for those of you who never graduated from kindergarten—to indicate that “X is coming.” The thing is, the unsettling ABC hymn is broken up with so many disturbing shots of a vehicle fast approaching the innocent woman, that when she stops at W, it seems for a moment that she was struck by the Fiat, not that the car symbolizes the next letter in the alphabet.
It is only after the initial horror and thoughts of, “How the hell could they air something like this?” that you realize that the woman has inexplicably removed herself from the swing and into the driver’s seat of the Fiat 500X. I don’t want to try to analyze the commercial too intently, but I am left with a few lingering questions, like:
- Who was driving the Fiat before she jumped into it?
- What was the swing hanging from?
- Why was no one in this city? Is the Fiat 500X appearing in a post-apocalyptic world only?
- How did the woman jump from the swing and into the Fiat so smoothly, especially since the model is not a drop top?
Honestly, it’s beginning to feel less like a Fiat commercial and more like an episode from the fourth season of Lost. But then again, Fiat’s commercials have never made much sense at all.
Check out the new Fiat 500X teaser for yourself and tell me what you think:
Timothy Moore takes his leadership inspiration from Michael Scott, his writing inspiration from Mark Twain, and his dancing inspiration from every drunk white guy at a wedding. When Tim is not writing about cars and money, he’s working on his novel or reading someone else’s, geeking out over strategy board games, hiking with his pooch, or channeling his inner Linda Belcher over beers with his friends. See more articles by Timothy.