UFO crashes in Potters Fields Park as part of Vauxhall promotion

The launch of the next-generation Vectra (or Insignia, as it has become) has been a long time coming, and Vauxhall is making good and sure everyone notices now that its time has arrived. As part of an elaborate marketing scheme, the automaker crashed a UFO in Potters Fields Park in London, and there was even a fence, men in dark glasses that were evidently mute and copious amounts of smoke to set the scene. Just how this relates to a new motorcar? You've got us there.

[Via Black-Night-Sky]

[makishima @ Jul 21st 2008 2:23PM]

Can we preemptively give out Darwin awards? We can?
*Announcer voice*
SuperSexyErik come on down!

[makishima @ Jul 21st 2008 2:24PM]

What the hell is with this lately? Like all of a sudden the collective IQ of the world dropped to Phillip J Fry levels......wait.....does anyone see giant floating brains zapping things outside?

[Roger @ Jul 21st 2008 2:25PM]

^

What a bunch of losers.

[collegekid13 @ Jul 21st 2008 3:58PM]

so your the guy who got all of Clarksons tickets?

[Roger @ Jul 21st 2008 4:55PM]

haha! good one.

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ Jul 21st 2008 9:37PM]

Top gear is possibly the best on tv. 8 on sunday, im always there waiting.

[SuperSexyErik @ Jul 21st 2008 2:26PM]

HA! No first for you !!

[micrypt @ Jul 21st 2008 2:27PM]

Awesome!!!

[Joel @ Jul 21st 2008 2:27PM]

Sure.. thats what they want you to believe!!

[itsme @ Jul 21st 2008 2:28PM]

Obviously the men in black got their first.

[hiko36 @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:59AM]

There, They're, Their... I dont think MIB comments on engadget...

[From My Cube @ Jul 21st 2008 2:38PM]

I miss they days when comments had thought and meaning....


first thing i thought when i saw it was that it looked like a prop from a 747

[ddub @ Sep 3rd 2008 10:32PM]

I think a lot of the comments have thought into it, as for meaning, maybe try a different internet, you might find it there.

P.S. When did they start putting props on 747's? Makes me glad I haven't been on a 747 lately.

[wrabbit @ Jul 21st 2008 2:39PM]

Seriously people, stop with the "FIRST!!" posts. It's not funny, makes you look like an ass, and is hardly an accomplishment.

[Anamorphy @ Jul 21st 2008 2:48PM]

FIRST!!!
(now it's funny)

By the way, it's not an ad, they're building another NY-London tunel. That was a real tunel, right? I saw real people on the other side.

[icepop4who @ Jul 21st 2008 3:09PM]

no point saying things that those feeble minds can't understand

[Boarderwoot @ Jul 21st 2008 2:41PM]

I kind of got excited by this ploy and searched for pictures of this car thinking the design would be so revolutionary it just might have come from outer space. Unfortunately I was greatly dissapointed by just another run of the mill luxury vehicle.

[patsy @ Jul 21st 2008 6:38PM]

Luxury?! The Vectra is Opel's bread and butter business, its Civic if you will.

[Miguel Rios @ Jul 21st 2008 2:44PM]

Why is this filed under Tablet PCs???

[Anamorphy @ Jul 21st 2008 2:50PM]

Giant floating brains. They're everywhere. Bualbugabulubulu bu.

[Flashpoint @ Jul 21st 2008 2:44PM]

I believe...

[Gilad @ Jul 21st 2008 2:46PM]

UFO, SHMUFUO-bama is my slave

http://www.readmetro.com/media/converted_jpg/19400_20080717_NewYork_01.jpg

[Fruition @ Jul 21st 2008 2:49PM]

Any sign of a police box parked nearby? Might not be the only alien thing there...

[Blaktornado @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:22PM]

Doctor Who only goes to Cardiff, silly.

Or Cardiff that's made to look London.

[helloUser @ Jul 21st 2008 2:53PM]

Yeah, it also comes with an ipod for you and your sheep friends.

[ethana2 @ Jul 21st 2008 2:55PM]

Wow. They disguise their coverups as marketing.

Brilliant.

[dubbbya @ Jul 21st 2008 2:55PM]

Vauxhall is just taking the fall for it, not to mention the credit.

Beings of light appeared to me in my dreams, their souls were so pure they assumed the form of a blue/white cloud, and had no need for physical bodies.

All they said was the ufo will be real....that was 4 days ago in my sleep.

[lagmastac @ Jul 21st 2008 2:58PM]

Thats it, too many reposts and crappy posts (http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/emotional-robot-has-empathy-understands-your-frustration/). I'm switching to Giz.

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 21st 2008 3:30PM]

Good riddance.

[icepop4who @ Jul 21st 2008 2:59PM]

It's actually an alien blender blade. It blends everything, including the new car.

[Ignatius @ Jul 21st 2008 3:19PM]

It's probably used to make soylent green.

[Stevo @ Jul 21st 2008 3:03PM]

747's don't have props.

[Samboini @ Jul 21st 2008 3:14PM]

Stevo I think he meant a Ni/Ti/Al superalloy Rolls-Royce Trent 700 thermal barrier coated turbine. Does that satisfy your planespotter lust?

[Ignatius @ Jul 21st 2008 3:14PM]

They have turbines, however.

[Ignatius @ Jul 21st 2008 3:14PM]

I think even Phillip J. Fry is smarter then these idiots.

[Stevo @ Jul 21st 2008 3:45PM]

lol... nice

[ericdano @ Jul 21st 2008 3:50PM]

Bloody Torchwood. Captain Jack is going to pay for this one. Where is the Doctor when you need him!

[Phoenix @ Jul 21st 2008 5:40PM]

Running around in the TARDIS as always. (I'd love to meet that man one day... ^_^)

[Alex @ Jul 21st 2008 7:50PM]

Trapped 1 second out of sync with the universe in the Medussa Cascade.

[Decoy @ Jul 21st 2008 3:51PM]

My CPU cooler is bigger.

[zevdawg @ Jul 21st 2008 4:43PM]

Do you use punch cards to input data as well?

[DenverBob @ Jul 21st 2008 4:28PM]

Hopefully "The Doctor" knows about this and can sort it. If not him, Downing Street had best call Torchwood.

[AlphaTeam @ Jul 21st 2008 5:03PM]

To make it real they should have gotten the government to issue a press blackout and when you take a picture have people yell at you to stop...

[TheGasMan @ Jul 21st 2008 5:43PM]

Now if we could only get you to do this for nearly every other Engadget article, we'd be getting somewhere.

[tripper @ Jul 21st 2008 5:53PM]

And there's no blue Police Box in the background? And you call yourself Brits!

[Thi mam(kris120890) @ Jul 21st 2008 9:37PM]

Yes we do and Vauxhall is the australian arm of opel.

[RossKTT @ Jul 22nd 2008 3:33AM]

Vauxhall is the British arm, Holden the Australian and Opel European.

[Crooked Style @ Jul 21st 2008 5:54PM]

you are gay

[neofolklore @ Jul 22nd 2008 8:02AM]

THANK YOU Captain Obvio---- wait what?

[jules @ Jul 22nd 2008 3:57AM]

video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMOp50HKSA4&feature=related