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Here are the automobile ads of the year

The One Club made its way back to the 2014 Detroit auto show, naming the top automotive ads across five different categories: online video, broadcast television commercials, interactive, experiential, and print/outdoor. The top ads were presented Tuesday. Let's take a look at those that came out on top.

2012 Focus gets Ford’s new Door Edge Protector

Ford’s new Active Door Edge Protector When Adam was a lad, dings on the edges of doors caused by careless passengers opening a door without any thought were mitigated by a quick trip to Halfords for a set of clip-on plastic door-edge protectors. But they’ve rather gone out of fashion. Which isn’t terribly surprising.

VW Golf GTD (2009) first pictures

By Chris Chilton First Official Pictures 27 March 2009 12:30 Volkswagen UK hasn’t even delivered its first new Golf GTi but is already showing us this: the GTD, its diesel alter ego. Powered by a 168bhp version of VW’s ubiquitous common rail 2.0-litre turbodiesel four it sprints to 62mph in just 8.1sec compared with 7.1sec for the 207bhp petrol GTi and its 136mph top speed falls 12mph short. But with 256lb ft of torque (the GTi makes do with 207lb ft) on hand, the diesel should have the upper hand in mid-range performance.