Toyota Breaks National Hybrid Synergy Drive Campaign

Campaign Introduces High-Performance Technology With a Powerful Environmental Impact

NEW YORK, June 19 -- Oasis, a division of Dentsu, is launching a major corporate ad campaign on Monday promoting Toyota's revolutionary Hybrid Synergy Drive(R) powertrain system. Hybrid Synergy Drive is a next generation hybrid system, which combines a gasoline engine with an electric motor to dramatically improve vehicle performance, while significantly reducing the fuel consumption and emissions.

National magazine, newspaper and outdoor executions will capture the performance and environmental enhancements of Hybrid Synergy Drive through surprising visual imagery. In one ad, a car is painted with hot-rod "flames" which upon closer inspection turn out to be leaves. In another, a car speeds past a tree from which waves a checkered flag. Lines such as "Save the planet. Faster." "More power. Naturally." and "Meaner. Cleaner." drive the message home.

"Hybrid Synergy Drive is a major advancement in automotive technology", said Marjorie Schussel (Manager, Corporate Communications, Toyota Motor North America). "We felt we needed a bold, head-turning campaign to let consumers know that it's coming. With this campaign, Oasis presents a complicated piece of technology with smart, simple, and compelling messages."

Paul Bernasconi, Creative Director of Oasis added, "The challenge with this campaign was to find ways to communicate the dual benefits of Hybrid Synergy Drive -- "performance" and "environment". Core to the communication is the idea that consumers can drive an environmentally-friendly hybrid without compromising the performance they expect."

Hybrid Synergy Drive will be launched this fall in the next generation Prius and later in the Lexus RX330 SUV.

   Credits:
   Account Director:  Linda Watson
   Associate CD: Damian Totman
   Writer:  Simon Foster
   Photographer:  Hakan Ludwigson

      
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Oasis specializes in long-range, creative advertising and marketing solutions.  Founded in 1993, Oasis offers integrated communications services including broadcast, print and interactive advertising, corporate identity, graphic design and media planning and buying. Clients include Toyota Motor North America Inc., Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Sharp Electronics Corporation, Siemens, the Government of India Tourist Office, and the National Center for Family Literacy (pro bono).  Headquartered in New York City with an office in Los Angeles, Oasis is a division of Dentsu Business Development Group, LLC.