Nothing is real these days, from clickbait stories clogging up your Facebook news feed to “reality” television. Everything’s at least a little bit staged, and it’s with that perspective we watched Volvo Trucks’ latest amusing commercial. For a division of Volvo with perhaps the least-exciting products, the Trucks guys sure know how to score a chuckle from us car guys. A recent effort involved Jean-Claude van Damme doing the splits, after all.
The YouTube clip pits a rookie valet at a casino on the Italian Riviera against a parade of the hottest sports cars, the nervous-looking fellow gulping and awkwardly gaping at the model-grade women stepping out from the exotic rides. It all seems to be typical first-day-on-the-job fare . . . until a Volvo semi truck pulls up to the red carpet.
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We don’t ever find out how the valet manages the big rig, but Volvo ends the clip with the boast that “under the hood, it’s a sports car.” You see, the Volvo FH truck is available with I-Shift Dual-Clutch, a heavy-duty dual-clutch automatic transmission. While it hardly transforms the FH into a Porsche 911 competitor, the dual-clutch does speed up shift times and remove the chore of working a clutch from the truck-driving experience. And not having to climb the learning curve for a semi-truck manual transmission means that valet kid might actually have been able to drive the FH. Whether or not he completely decimated everything in sight was a different story, we’re sure.
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