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Chevy spot already front-runner for most controversial ad
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 5 2012 | Katie Dowd

Posted on 02/05/2012 7:35:46 PM PST by WilliamIII

If you’ve learned anything from Super Bowl XLVI so far, it’s that driving a Ford will get you killed when the apocalypse comes.

Unsurprisingly, this spot from Chevy is already generating the most controversy. In it, a man drives through a post-apocalyptic landscape and finds the only survivors are fellow Chevy drivers. Their friend, sadly, drove a Ford and is dead.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: ads; armageddon; automakers; endtimes; fordmotor; generalmotors; superbowlads
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To: WilliamIII

I wonder if those Chevy Sonics advertised are the ones sold without front brakes, and had to be recalled? Union workers forgot to install them!!!!


41 posted on 02/05/2012 8:41:05 PM PST by Forrestfire (("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
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To: Mike Darancette

No they’re not. You forgot about peeps!


42 posted on 02/05/2012 8:44:36 PM PST by Mom MD (The country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: WilliamIII

This year’s collection of ads was pretty lame. The Cheby ad was one of the better ones and that ain’t saying much.

Though I think my funniest favorite was the Darth Vader one. GoDaddy definitely had the cutest chicks.


43 posted on 02/05/2012 8:44:41 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's War on Prosperity is killing me)
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To: ReagansShinyHair

Every fifth day a turn in the barrel.


44 posted on 02/05/2012 8:55:40 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Recall/ Impeachment Day, November 6, 2012. FUBO)
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To: Rebelbase

I didn’t watch the game but I think ads about the apocalypse would be a little too close to home for me to find very amusing.


45 posted on 02/05/2012 9:12:03 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: montag813

Great idea. Have the Ford owner asking the Chevy owners where they’ll go for maintenance and repairs now that GM no longer exists since the government no longer exists.


46 posted on 02/05/2012 9:13:09 PM PST by Terry Mross (.)
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To: Mom MD
No they’re not. You forgot about peeps!

And Circus Peanuts too!
47 posted on 02/05/2012 9:16:52 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Holodeck Computer: End Obama Administration simulation program, NOW!!!!)
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To: ScottinSacto

Just show a Chevy driver smoking a Cig. These days that seems to be enough for a rope.


48 posted on 02/05/2012 9:20:58 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: WilliamIII

I’m probably not the first to notice - but I didn’t see a Ford commercial.

I saw VERY long expensive commercials fo the two taxpayer funded US Auto companies. But none from Ford.

Also - the tone of the two ads - Chevy - the thing to drive after the apocolypse - Chrysler “We know how to come back from the brink” -

I wonder - if it says something about their corporate mentality - or even their customers. Very self important. Very - “Self focused about how important they are”.

Then - compare the Suzuki ad - “Traded the sled” -

I could probably go on forever - but there was a tone there.


49 posted on 02/05/2012 9:28:38 PM PST by Eldon Tyrell (question,.)
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To: WilliamIII

And - another thing -
For the strangest reason - I want to go out and buy a Fiat 500 Abarth.

I think my Alfas are jealous.


50 posted on 02/05/2012 9:33:06 PM PST by Eldon Tyrell (question,.)
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To: WilliamIII
So, I think the Acura NSA ad was the best.

I don't really care which ad was most controversial - except to inform figuring that the folks who draw attention by drumming up controversy (rather than excellence) are scam artists.

51 posted on 02/05/2012 9:34:49 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: WilliamIII

So, only Government Motors vehicles will be allowed to get through the entitlement zombie OWS mobs?


52 posted on 02/05/2012 9:36:45 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Did you not see the Fiat ad?


53 posted on 02/05/2012 9:38:40 PM PST by Eldon Tyrell (question,.)
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To: Eldon Tyrell

Fiat owns Dodge-Chrysler


54 posted on 02/05/2012 9:41:20 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: WilliamIII

I thought the ad was a bit heavy handed. Plus I hate GM/Obama Regime so my opinion shouldn’t count. Too biased. .


55 posted on 02/05/2012 9:54:17 PM PST by Chgogal (WSJ, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: montag813

BUMP!


56 posted on 02/05/2012 10:09:18 PM PST by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: ReagansShinyHair

What should be a Ford commercial: The chebby guys talking about Dave and his sorry Ford truck while eating each others Twinkies, then pan to an horizon shot with the Ford loaded with absolutely beautiful women hauling butt across the desert.


57 posted on 02/05/2012 10:27:17 PM PST by biff (WAS)
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To: WilliamIII

The guy in the ford made it to the bug out area. He’s drinking a bud, eating doritos, and has a few go daddy chicks there!!! And I’m not telling you where it is. ppfflltt.


58 posted on 02/05/2012 10:35:44 PM PST by FishinTX (Annoy liberals, VOTE NEWT.)
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To: BipolarBob

FORD and what it stands for (This is all meant as a Joke son.)

And as we all know, a joke needs a Lot or Little, of Truth, only you the reader, will know for sure.

First On Race Day. :-(
(Sad Face, because Chevy’s always win the big Race’s.)

Frequent Overall’s & Rapid Depreciation. :-)
(Happy Face, well,..... because it’s true.)

Remember boy’s and girl’s, the only thing that “Depreciates” faster than a car or truck, is an “Airplane.”


59 posted on 02/05/2012 10:53:24 PM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's don't lie, they just Testily{ing} as taught in their respected Police Academy.)
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To: Venturer
Who would want to be safe in a world with 4 other guys and one of them a Twinkie.

How appropriate for a Government Motors ad: Hostess just went bankrupt; there won't be any Twinkies.

60 posted on 02/05/2012 11:24:39 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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