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Just Drive It

Lee Garfinkel is at it again. DDB’s New York Chairman and Chief Creative Officer worked as a junior copywriter on Subaru in the early 1980s, when he was with the agency Levine, Huntley Schmidt and Beaver. Today he is back on the car account and the author of Subaru’s new long copy campaign.

Think. Feel. Drive.
It’s not just a theme line.
It’s an automotive ideal.
It’s a philosophy and belief system.
It’s a way of designing and building cars
that is totally unique to Subaru.
In essence, creating a category of one.
To think. To feel. To drive.
Here is where Subaru and the Subaru owner converge.
A higher level of automotive expertise meets a higher level
of automotive expectations.

To read Garfinkel’s entire poem, I mean copy, visit www.thinkfeeldrive.com. And feel free to use our comments to confirm that you’re on your way to the local Subaru dealer, if in fact you are so moved.

About David Burn

David Burn is the co-founder, editor, and publisher of Adpulp.com. David joined the ad agency business in 1997 as a copywriter and then worked for seven agencies in five states prior to launching Bonehook in 2010. Today, David is a writer, brand strategist, and leader of creative teams in Austin, TX.

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  1. Carl LaFong says

    Kinda underwhelming. I think “a category of one” is nice, but the rest of the copy just seems like leftovers from countless clich

  4. Ernie Schenck says

    Unfortunately, I have to agree with you guys. I love long copy and I think it sucks that it’s kinda gone underground. But this thing reads more like a manifesto written by a planner. Could have been wondrous. It isn’t.

  5. Danny G says

    Hey, as long as everyone’s piling on:
    Think. Feel. Drive?
    Click. Read. Puke.
    Too much afternoon coffee.

  6. David Burn says

    The thing is, Lee Garfinkel did not rise to the top of one of the world’s great advertising agencies by writing banal copy. So what went wrong? We’ll never know, but I’d love to see his original version before the client and their lawyers got a hold of it.

  7. jodi kanger says

    Wtf does think feel drive MEAN anyway – and how again is it different from what everyone else does?
    And it’s too bad really cuz I’m with you guys – long copy ads can be so amazing. This is like reading a junior high schooler’s journal.