OT: Car advertising - Something to ponder

[flaatr@yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

The 'Fly GTI' car was stock and sold at my local dealer with a copy of the 
video and a certificate stating that it was the car used in the 
commercial... Wonder who bought it?

-RGK-

At 04:58 PM 1/20/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Pontiac used to use showroom videos to sell the Trans-Am this 
>way.  Zipping around the countryside and taking a nice airborne jump over 
>a rise in the road.  No mention of the fact that piece of road was shaped 
>to keep the front end up during the feat or that the car was specially 
>built - reinforced to do the trick.  The result was something like a 
>youthful driver, with three friends in the car, trying the trick with his 
>car.  The nose went down, the car went end over end. I don't recall if any 
>of them survived.  Although Pontiac lost a suit over the case it is 
>unfortunate that it takes a couple of deaths to discourage using that type 
>of advertising to sell cars.  A youthful driver, without an understanding 
>of vehicle dynamics, doing the same thing he had seen the car capable of 
>doing in the video.  Now ads of this type usually disclose that car with a 
>professional driver on a closed course (which looks like a winding country 
>road) is being used, and perhaps that the car is specially modified.
>
>Chris
>
>At 01:07 PM 01/20/2003 -0800, Tyler P. wrote:
>>I find it strange that car advertisements on TV always show cars speeding or
>>doing other things that are illegal.  At a recent movie I saw a premovie
>>commercial that showed the new 350 z speeding through a busy city
>>endangering the safety of others just because it was fun to do.  It seems to
>>me that advertising cars in this manner is the same as if a beer company
>>advertised its product by showing people getting drunk pissing on cop cars.
>>I mean, though both happen, its not necessarily legal nor should be
>>suggested to the average citizen as a good idea.  I would think somebody
>>would make this kind of car advertising illegal.
>>
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