Ok, so not that I have given you your Spanish lesson for the day, how about we talk about the latest thing that is irking me these days.
So the American car companies aren’t doing so hot these days, with their billion dollar bailouts coming with the clause that they actually have to change their ways. Well it seems like they are all trying to convince us that everything is fine and dandy and that maybe I should buy a car from them.
The new ads that have been flooding my TV-watching every commercial break are really starting to irritate me. Chev’s new one suggests they are building a bigger, better and badder world for us all. It feels like three hours long and not once am I impressed with what they are doing. Do they really need to spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign to console us all like we are children?
But the one that cracks me up the most is Ford. this time around they are the cool guys, building the latest, greatest and coolest cars, the best of all being the new Ford Fiesta.
Sure the ad is flashy, makes me want to get up and dance, but really the image they are trying to sell makes we want to stay as faraway from Fiesta as possible. Maybe cause the image of a clown car is stuck in my head.
This is a note to all car companies trying to rebuild their image. You can try and create what might just be the high performance, good gas mileage and the most aesthetically pleasing vehicles you want, but if it still has the tainted image of a joke car from years gone by, no one is gonna buy. Ok, well just not me.
And another thing to note, the new Taurus is marketed a oh-so-fucking-cool cause the dash is all digital. This just reminds me of the time my sister and her fiance had borrowed a friends new Ford F-150 an truck wouldn’t start because they locked the doors automatically and used the key to open them. Apparently, if you did not use the automatic locks to open the doors too, the vehicle would lock up. Good ol’ Ford technology.
And that was my latest pet peeve.
