The Norwegian division of VW have a pretty ace advertising deal going on at the moment. They have what they claim is the first ever test drive within a print ad and the advert, which is placed in magazines and newspapers, presents the reader with a long stretch of road (in both winter and summer versions) and asks you to download a phone app that lets you drive a new VW by hovering your phone over the road using augmented reality.
You can test out three features of the car including lane assist, adaptive lights and cruise control. Obviously it still won’t compare to a real test drive but it is pretty darn cool and I like the forward thinking involved with exploiting new tech like this. Volkswagen have always been pretty switched on when it comes to advertising, they went viral with their latest advert using Star Wars that was shown during the Superbowl; they work well with interactive media as shown in this new advert and their ‘The Fast Lane‘ series and they were pretty radical with their ideas way back in the 70′s when they were trying to sell their vans to America with a campaign of print adverts that poked fun at the bus-like look of the campervan.