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Agreed, note the winky emotorcon.
I just think it's counter-productive for GM to criticize small cars when they're coming out with 2 that are crucial to its CAFE strategy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzi_8Rscfs :shades:
I liked that original Ford Ka. The update lost a lot of character. It sold well in Brazil for a while.
So, if a married couple in Brazil had two Ford Ka's parked in their garage side by side, what would they have? :P
A retirement plan named Kaká.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kak%C3%A1
And what if the husband, (or the wife) had a little something on the side who drove an Audi roadster? :shades:
Only if they had a weekend place on the Bolivia/Peru border with a water view.
Then it could be a Tata Ka Ka.
A female owner would be the Mama Tata Ka Ka.
OK, I'll go take my meds now...
You can look it up on your own time - this thread has gone far enough off the rails as it is without posting the name. :P
And to get back on subject:
Break Through
It's been 9 years since it was first shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji8d5u2VhY8
Should have used shorter clips of more cars, IMO. But it features a bustleback, that amused me.
I've always like the bustleback. I remember a silver over black two tone my barber owned - now that said "I'm an italian barber" like nothing else.
Cadillac Style
Too bad the cars weren't up to the same standard.
Of course, if someone wants to argue that this ad deserves the "best" designation, I won't argue.
I like the tagline they used in the later commercials, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit". They seem to have dropped that.
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Brougham
I didn't like the "Pursuit" ads, as they had me saying "Pursuit of...what"?
The pursuit of whatever you wanted.
R-Body New Yorker
Youtube has ballooned to such a size now, you can find just about any car there. One can waste endless hours.
While it does seem like a good number of 5th Avenues have survived over the years, compared to most R-bodies, there can't be too many still roaming around, with a sunroof and those rims and tires.
Oh, and maybe I'm not as much of a child of the 70's as I had thought. When I played that Youtube clip, at first I thought that music track was some kind of soft-core porn!
That's actually not a coincidence. Several Ford stylists jumped ship to Mopar a few years before Iacocca went over, so as a result, a lot of Ford and Mopar products have a lot of similar styling features. Both tended to have bold, crisp, angular designs, whereas the GM cars of the era tended to be a bit more rounded off.
GM would start making their cars a bit crisper with styles such as the re-skinned 1980 full-sized cars and the 1981 personal luxury coupes (Monte Carlo et al), but they were still a bit more rounded than the Fords and Mopars.
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You're right, but I gotta confess, I'm just as guilty. Here's what my '79 5th Ave is sporting...
I have a set of alloy wheels that were used on the Cordoba/Mirada that I'm planning on putting on, one of these days. Maybe in the spring. This car's due for new tires soon, so I'm thinking about waiting until then. The front tires don't have many miles on them, but are about 10 years old. The back tires, which are on 15x7 copcar wheels, date back to February 1999, and came off my '89 Gran Fury. They're pretty worn down, too, so driving in slick weather can be a bit of an adventure! :surprise:
Oh, I just looked online, and it looks like that road wheel that the other NYer is sporting was available as an option. Here's a page from the 1979 New Yorker brochure. It reminds me a little bit of the rally wheels that are on my '85 Silverado, although not nearly as beefy. My truck has 15x8 wheels, but I think these New Yorker wheels were only 15x6. FWIW, the wheels I have on the car now are 15x7 all around, although the copcar wheels on back are offset more, so they give the car a more stable, less tipsy posture. I'm pretty sure the Mirada wheels are 15x7 as well.
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Accursed? Not if you are getting a Lexus for Christmas. That theme is, is....touching.
Also, why would anyone believe someone who always wears a cap? What is he hiding? Is he bald? And, wearing that cap shows disrespect to women without head coverings in his presence.
He wears a ball cap on Dirtiest Jobs so I guess Ford wanted that persona - everyday good guy - for their ads.
BTW he is an accomplished opera singer as well.
ROFL, seriously? You are making James May (I know, another alien name) look with it and hip.
On a commercial theme, I saw a few bow-wearing MB at the local dealer yesterday. But they weren't new cars, they were in my guess 08-09 lease returns on the CPO lot. Would Miss Priss tolerate receiving a non-new car? :shades:
He's still toting the Fusion hybrid's 10mpg city edge over the previous TCH, when the new one is in dealers and actually beats the Ford.
Even compared to the old Fusion hybrid they tied in Consumer Reports tests.
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2012 Kia Rio5
Odie
You can really get a heated steering wheel and a cooled glove box on a Rio?
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Odie
You can't make money selling cars at $10,999.
Looks like most of those end up around $16k (range is 14.6k to 17.3k locally), may as well add equipment to push consumers to spend more, move the cars in to potential profit territory. Half of them are over $17k street price, which is good.
Kia's average transaction price was only $19k or so, so they need to work on moving people up the price scale. Now that they've shed the cheap car image, the timing is right.
I bet we'll see that transaction push up to $22k before long.
Odie
The Fit is a packaging wonder. My mom is on her 2nd. Great city car, but buzzy on the highway, not well insulated at high speeds, and not geared tall enough, either.
Young couple gets on elevator in their apartment building, condo presumably. Woman is trying to hold in emotions when fine Lexus Christmas melody comes through elevator speaker. That will be a classic almost, such as jingle bells. Man recognizes theme and obviously thinks, "I am getting a new Lexus".
When they get to ground floor and go outside, a red Lexus sedan is there for him, his wife gleaming.
What a fine spot. Why can't GM or other American brands come up with such touching and moving commercials.