Local ads for car dealerships have long occupied some uncharted circle of hell polluted with Sansabelt slacks, wake-the-dead shouting at the camera, and occasionally, a little bad taste. But even the good people of Columbus had their fill with a round of radio ads for a local Mitsubishi dealer in central Ohio who used his 15-second spots to “launch a jihad on the automotive market.” With the light touch of a German jazz band, Keith Dennis of Dennis Mitsubishi added that his sales team would be wearing burqas all weekend long and declared Friday “fatwah day,” complete with rubber swords for the kids.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that several radio stations refused to air the ads, but the general manager of the showroom promises the ads will air this week and called it the “most controversial commercial” heard in 15 years. Oh, right! Those Madonna burning-cross Pepsi ads were actually 17 years ago.
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One Panamera...two Panamera...hold on, we're feeling a Latin rhythm here.
Has
the Governator really given up his now infamous HUMMERs? I mean, that would be like Bill Clinton giving up cigars, right? A man's gotta have a trademark.
Apparently at least a few of you remember who Cher is,
why she also owns a HUMMER, and care enough to vote in our off-year ballots. May Liberty shower her blessings on you - or just agree to shower with you.
Meanwhile, Ahnuld's Golden State is suing automakers, including Toyota and Honda, for damages stemming from greenhouse-gas emissions. Predictably, they didn't name Taco Bell to the suit, even though everyone knows it produces far more toxic gases.
Sebring! And you said Chrysler had lost its derring-do! (What exactly is
derring-do?)
Our Franco file overfloweth with
next week's Paris show previews. There's Mondeo, Touareg, and the only traditionally named superhero, the Avenger. We'll be reporting through sweat-soaked suits from the Expo on Thursday--stay tuned if you can stand the perspiration.
We're so cranky you'd think we hate everything about cars, but in truth, it's only really
six things we hate. Seven, if you count goofy names.
Given that
Ford's Edge will wear a pricetag of less than $26,000, and the Lincoln version is going to sticker below $35,000, and that gas prices are dropping to $2, calculate how soon it will take Ford to revert to truck-based utes if demand allows. Show your work.
What's a little pot and mushrooms between friends? Okay, now multiply that by about 5 and throw in some Louisiana state police and Willie Nelson. The sitcom pilot practically writes itself.
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This morning Kia released the first pics of the concept it will show
next week in Paris. The pro_cee'd (could you get any more punctuationally difficult, guys?) is essentially the three-door version of the cee'd crossover which goes into production later this year. The big wagon, which made its debut as a concept at the Geneva motor show and will be shown in production form at the Paris show, will take on the name of the concept (pronounced seed), Kia says, in homage to its roots: CE for "European Community" and ED for "European design." The new mid-size hatchback will be built in Kia's plant in Slovakia and is set to go on sale in December of this year across Europe. The three-door concept is expected to head into production also.
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It should come as no surprise to readers of this Web site—nay, any American who’s seen the red-headed stranger in concert or in the horrifically underacted Honeysuckle Rose (1980)—that Willie Nelson partakes of some illicit substances on occasion. So maybe the Louisiana cops who pulled over Bio-Willie’s tour bus were seeking entertainment too when they tossed the bus and found shrooms and Mary Jane hiding inside along with the sound equipment near Lafayette. The citing officer “smelled the strong odor of marijuana" in the bus, surprising no one. Some 1.5 pounds of marijuana and about a quarter-pound of mushrooms were found. Citations were given. Comments were declined. And at the end of the day the 73-year-old Nelson was on the road again. Hopefully, with someone sober driving?
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While we're all hell-bent on the Way Forward 2.0 today, we thought you'd like a flashback episode entitled, "
The Way We Were," or muttered under Bill Ford's breath, "
Here's How We #*&)$ Got Here In The First Place."
This morning's Way Forward stuff hasn't said a whole lot about Jaguar, so we'll fill you in on the latest: the
XKR is slap-your-momma good. But don't tell her we said so.
At the other end of the spectrum, here's a well-earned retirement, or
two of them, from Scion. How many pro ballers hit a home run in their first at-bat?
Guess what?
Malcolm Bricklin may have exaggerated the number of dealers he lined up and may have lowballed the price for his Chinese-made cars. The more things change, the more you just want to
buy a Segway instead, right?
TheCarConnection is so ready for the Paris auto show. How ready?
Project Runway be damned, we're all wearing berets this week and at least one of us is serious about it.
Toyota is still expanding in the U.S., which makes us think of chemistry -- something about a gas expanding to fill its container. Hey, anybody have a Toyota-shaped container?
And finally this week, TheCarConnection applauds
Brenda Priddy for supplying the rest of our wardrobe just in time for Fashion Week. What flip-flops go with this
Spied! 2008 Chevy HHR SS?
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Local ads for car dealerships have long occupied some uncharted circle of hell polluted with Sansabelt slacks, wake-the-dead shouting at the camera, and occasionally, a little bad taste. But even the good people of Columbus had their fill with a round of radio ads for a local Mitsubishi dealer in central Ohio who used his 15-second spots to “launch a jihad on the automotive market.” With the light touch of a German jazz band, Keith Dennis of Dennis Mitsubishi added that his sales team would be wearing burqas all weekend long and declared Friday “fatwah day,” complete with rubber swords for the kids. The Columbus Dispatch reports that several radio stations refused to air the ads, but the general manager of the showroom promises the ads will air this week and called it the “most controversial commercial” heard in 15 years. Oh, right! Those Madonna burning-cross Pepsi ads were actually 17 years ago. ;)
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