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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mauser on August 31, 2004, 01:53:22 PM
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What did you all think of the GM TV ad with the kid dreaming about driving the Corvette? It was on quite a few times during the Olympics. I thought it was a neat ad - a little different from the rest. I can't afford a 'Vette right now so I'm still looking at it from the eyes of the kid in the commercial even though I'm about 20 years older than he is! And with gas at $2.09/gal here even at Costco I dread the thought of filling up more often than I would need to fill my VW Jetta! But man, 8-cylinders sound sooo nice compared to 4... Heck even 6 sounds better than 4.
Unfortunately, this commercial may have been pulled - in the name of doing it "for the children."
GM pulls Corvette TV ad featuring underage driver
- Los Angeles Times
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Fast and sleek, the Chevy Corvette is the sports car of many a schoolboy's dreams.
And, for General Motors Corp., a PR nightmare.
The automaker late Tuesday yanked a prime-time television commercial for the 2005 Corvette after vehement protests from consumer and safety groups.
The spot, aired during Olympic broadcasts, depicted the dream of a boy clearly too young to have a driver's license taking the 350-horsepower car airborne -- after driving it wildly through city streets and spiraling it through a large drainpipe -- as the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" played in the background.
"This ad is certainly among the most dangerous, anti-safety messages to be aired on national television in recent years," the groups wrote in a letter to GM.
"It is doubtful," they wrote, "that General Motors would condone the beer industry showing a 'dream sequence' of 10-year-old children having an after- school 'kegger.' "
The groups that signed the letter included Consumers Union, Public Citizen and the Consumer Federation of America.
The ad was directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, husband of pop singer Madonna.
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What a load of crap!
I can not fathom why GM caved to these nanny state winers.
"Oh dearest me, he is driving irresponisbly!"
It is a comercial about a kid having a fantatsy!
Jeezus. PC police do it again.
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Right. And the Nike ad of Suzi Favor Hamilton outrunning a chainsaw-wielding monster because she exercises regularly somehow promotes violence towards women.
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Gofaster
Did that one get yanked as well?
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Originally posted by mauser
And with gas at $2.09/gal here even at Costco I dread the thought of filling up more often.....
:rolleyes:
paid £20 ($38 or so) for about 24 LITRES today.. thats what, 5 gallons?
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Cool... that commercial was irritating.
That said... some people should grow a pair. :)
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One of my employees just bought his 1st vette. He is almost 60. Of course now I can take advantage of him big time, he can't afford to quit. MUahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Originally posted by midnight Target
One of my employees just bought his 1st vette. He is almost 60. Of course now I can take advantage of him big time, he can't afford to quit. MUahahahahahahahahahahaha!
lmfao...
You are worse than I am!
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My Corvette's going to college next fall.
:(
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sandie... is "channeling" a good thing or a bad thing?
lazs
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I guess it depends on the situation. ;)
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I only saw it as the kid dreaming of driving the car...
:rolleyes:
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On Sandy's channeling, it's only bad if it turns him on! :D
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Originally posted by Furball
:rolleyes:
paid £20 ($38 or so) for about 24 LITRES today.. thats what, 5 gallons?
Yeah, I know what you folks over there pay for gas. It's all relative - we have some of the highest gas prices in the nation, but compared to Europe, it's not much.
By the way, what do you pay for diesel? I've read that it's cheaper to get diesel there compared to gas, but is diesel still more expensive than gas here? Over here (in this state anyway) it's more expensive to get diesel at the pump compared to what we pay for petrol. At least a year ago when we were paying about $1.50/gal for gas diesel was $1.80/gal. Go figure.
Anyway, in case anyone else liked the ad:
http://performin.homeip.net/videos/boysdream.mov
mauser
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what next, banning the zoom zoom kid because he's standing to close to the road?
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Moving to Hawaii to buy cheaper gasoline
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Originally posted by Sandman
Cool... that commercial was irritating.
That said... some people should grow a pair. :)
If you thought that was irritating, do you remember those "Egoiste!" cologne commercials from many moons ago? Had to have been around 10 years ago. They were showing them during almost EVERY commercial break during that year's US Open tennis tournament. Now those commercials deserved to be pulled not just "for the children," but for sanity's sake!
mauser
"Egoiste!" "Egoiste!" "Egoiste!"
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Must have missed it... Those commercials weren't played during Monday Night Football. ;)
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Originally posted by mauser
By the way, what do you pay for diesel? I've read that it's cheaper to get diesel there compared to gas, but is diesel still more expensive than gas here? Over here (in this state anyway) it's more expensive to get diesel at the pump compared to what we pay for petrol. At least a year ago when we were paying about $1.50/gal for gas diesel was $1.80/gal. Go figure.
mauser
http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/
there we go, shows average prices, also has international prices linked at top.