USA

Sometimes - on very rare occasions - our friends from across the pond produce better car ads than their European counterparts. Volkswagen comes to mind with their recent Super Bowl ads, or those hilarious off-beat VW Academy ads with Saturday Night Live comedian Bill Hader. Land Rover are another brand that have blurred the lines between the normally dull commercial and a genuine piece of entertainment.

We’ve been a little cynical in the past about Hyundai's promotional campaign for the Sonata Turbo, the Sonata is not exactly the kind of car any of us would associate with 'speed' - in fact stick a Taxi sign on its roof and it would look right at home waiting in the taxi-rank at Slough station. But over in the USA, where there's always been a greater affinity for Japanese and Korean marques, Hyundai have been mounting a campaign to transform the Sonata's dowdy image and re-position it as a car to be desired rather than just used.