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Ford launches Jaguar ads to target gay buyers ("Life is full of twists. Care for a partner?")
The Detroit News ^
| 12/23/2002
| By Mark Truby /
Posted on 12/24/2002 4:35:57 AM PST by KQQL
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:09:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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In an unusual move for a U.S. automaker, Ford Motor Co.'s Jaguar brand is launching an advertising campaign targeting gay consumers, the company said Tuesday.
The campaign germinated from a major internal study at Ford and Jaguar on how to reach gay consumers, which tend to be fairly affluent with a taste for luxury goods. Ford estimates there are some 14 million gay and lesbian consumers in the United States who wield $450 billion in purchasing power.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: advertising; alternativelifestyle; automobile; bisexual; business; cars; farding; ford; gay; gaycars; gereshiftknob; homosexual; homosexualagenda; industry; jaguar; lesbian; phalliccompensation; rainbowbumpersticker; transexuals; transvestites; transylvanians
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To: KQQL
So, if a gay car buyer wants to stay in the closet, does he buy a Hummer?
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posted on
12/24/2002 5:39:54 AM PST
by
doosee
To: KQQL
They are about 3 years behind the Volkswagon Jetta.
The only reason they are leaking this to promote a litle BUZZ....
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posted on
12/24/2002 5:41:20 AM PST
by
hobbes1
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To: Baklava
This ad was in "Butt Bangers Weekly"
To: Baklava
Mike Wilke, head of the Commercial Closet Association, a New York group that tracks advertising in the gay marketplace, criticized the ad as a bit too soft, saying the buzzword "partner" was the only thing that signaled something outside the mainstream.
To: KQQL
Jags for f__s?
To: NewHampshireDuo
They gonna have a hatchback?
'Keyless Rear Entry?'
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posted on
12/24/2002 6:01:17 AM PST
by
johnb838
To: The Turbanator
If someone already has a Jaguar, do they have to "Convert"?
To: Gorzaloon
"Naa, will just all think your gay." "But thats cool."
To: Gorzaloon
Extra long steering column, because the driver's always in the back.
To: KQQL
Does Jaguar even sell cars anymore? Yeah, OK, but it can't be all that many. Their new cars look like a Ford Taurus or Ford Contour. Jaguar cashed in its reputation of being a stylish luxury sedan.
To: KQQL
Jaguar, the Ford-owned maker of British luxury cars, discovered in recent years that many gay consumers were visiting its dealer showrooms Must've been all those messages and times scrawled in the bathroom stalls.
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posted on
12/24/2002 6:06:55 AM PST
by
jonatron
To: KQQL
"Life is full of twists and turns" Surely they meant "Kinks"!
To: Joe 6-pack
LOL
To: The Turbanator
"Naa, will just all think your gay." "But thats cool." We are always supposed to say, "Not that there is anything WRONG with that", to be Politically Correct.
So..I tried changing the screen name to something like "Percy Prettybum", or "Faery Tail" but it would not accept the change....Haha.
To: Between the Lines
What if a NOW publication does a supportive story about how sales won't decline for the automaker and cites a few female friends of Elton John who want to buy them?
Don't gag, the nags' rag mags all tagged Jag. Sales won't lag. Fag hags bag Jags.
(I couldn't fit in "wag". I'm so ashamed.)
To: Joe 6-pack; All
To: battlegearboat
Fix or repair daily. Found On Road Dead
To: Registered
The best!
To: Registered
LMAO .... that's one's awesome Registered ..... of course my co-workers are wondering why I've sprayed coffee on my monitor.
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