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Phanatic posted:That is a thing that happened regularly, because the testing range was right outside Vegas. You bet your rear end people had parties to watch those things go off. 
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Platystemon posted:Yeah but the Confederacy was bad. We've discovered the final solution to high prices. Our competitors prices are just fascist!
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A German lens maker hyped their new product by calling it a final solution to camera lenses. I wish I had grabbed a screenshot. They pulled that pretty quickly. This was circa 2000 so not everything posted online was saved yet.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:I think it's more just human nature to seek out dangerous poo poo like that. Don't tell me that, if the public was given notice, hundreds wouldn't flock to watch a nuclear bomb being dropped, having a picnic on a nearby hill side.  Mostly military personnel, but families were invited. Don't worry, they had protection:  flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 00:36 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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hyperhazard posted:I can see Walmart, a few years from now: I know Ill sleep soundly
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The other side of that is that a poo poo load of car crashes happen every day. "Coal plant produces a poo poo load of ash, it goes somewhere" just isn't newsworthy because it always happens. Same with crashes; chances are the only people that care are the ones that have the road they're using/are going to use today blocked off and need a different route. Car crashes are also usually not deadly. I've been in like three of them and none of them have led to injuries. How is this "the other side" when you've just backed up the entire argument?
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Platystemon posted:I would be the first in line to see a nuclear test. And you'd be last in line in your family tree. Win/win.
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sarcastx posted:words So on new year's day a couple years ago I made an effortpost about American luxury cars, and pointed out that Buick's strategy of "we used to make such lovely cars that people don't recognize our new ones as they expect Buicks to be lovely" is old, lame, and self defeating. Have they moved on to something else yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx2PMnSzCB4 Also in the time since I made that post Lincoln hired Matthew McConaughey. Although his ads are pretty incomprehensible, I like them.
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RaspberryCommie posted:And you'd be the first in your family tree with superpowers. FTFY
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sarcastx posted:So on new year's day a couple years ago I made an effortpost about American luxury cars, and pointed out that Buick's strategy of "we used to make such lovely cars that people don't recognize our new ones as they expect Buicks to be lovely" is old, lame, and self defeating. Have they moved on to something else yet? The used to be lovely and now we're amazing would work better if they weren't still poo poo cars that still look like a Granddad should be driving it to go golfing. At least when domino's went with that type of ad, they seemed to work on the actual products and service a lot. Also seriously, McConaughey makes zero sense in those commercials and talks in that creepy almost whisper of a voice he does and somehow they work. It's baffling.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Coal has never had a Chernobyl-level incident that is still loving up everything around it. Granted at this point that's basically impossible thanks to new reactor designs but people remember that. I mean yeah I guess this is true unless you're not willfully ignorant of the vast amount of devastation caused by the timber burning, mountain top removal and waste dumping in the Appalachians.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I mean yeah I guess this is true unless you're not willfully ignorant of the vast amount of devastation caused by the timber burning, mountain top removal and waste dumping in the Appalachians. This was already posted last page, but it wasn't made explicitly clear. Forget the ecological damage, that's long term and isn't as impressive as nuclear fallout, some coal disasters even get their own version of an Exclusion Zone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I mean yeah I guess this is true unless you're not willfully ignorant of the vast amount of devastation caused by the timber burning, mountain top removal and waste dumping in the Appalachians. Well considering this country's historical treatment of the Appalachians...
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I thought Lincoln was the new car for the subdued office working dad type , likes to golf on the weekends and never ever has more than 1 scotch because he doesn't want to get too crazy They look nice and have all the gizmos , but I don't think they'll ever have the luxury appeal of a mercedes , BMW, audi etc. Besides everytime you pull up you'll have half a dozen people looking at their phone wondering if you're their Uber
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Sappo569 posted:I thought Lincoln was the new car for the subdued office working dad type , likes to golf on the weekends and never ever has more than 1 scotch because he doesn't want to get too crazy Lincoln has finally got their own bespoke car, on a totally new platform shared with no other Ford. It looks pretty nice, it's identifiable as a Lincoln and doesn't look much like anything else in the market space. and if they'd done this as an SUV rather than a sedan, people might consider buying it in 2017 
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sarcastx posted:So on new year's day a couple years ago I made an effortpost about American luxury cars, and pointed out that Buick's strategy of "we used to make such lovely cars that people don't recognize our new ones as they expect Buicks to be lovely" is old, lame, and self defeating. Have they moved on to something else yet? It's not that Buicks were lovely cars, it's that they were old people cars. Buicks are incapable of being any more or less lovely than Chevys since they all use the same platforms and components. They just look stodgier, have nicer interiors/technology, and appeal to old people and the Chinese. Every luxury car company is trying to replicate Audi's feat where they made an also-ran into a cool commodity again.
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fizzymercy posted:Also seriously, McConaughey makes zero sense in those commercials and talks in that creepy almost whisper of a voice he does and somehow they work. It's baffling. They came out right after his beloved role as an alcoholic nihilist who spoke in confusing metaphors so they just cleaned that character up a little and made him sell cars.
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Platystemon posted:I would be the first in line to see a nuclear test. A couple of weeks ago, a long dormant breeder reactor near me opened its doors to the public for the first time in forty years and offered tours. There was no way I was missing out on that. The place was supposed to be open from 1pm to 3pm. I got there at 1pm on the dot and was about the two hundredth person in line. Over six hundred people eventually showed up for the tour. So yes, people will show up in droves for the chance to encounter some rads!
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There's a place north of me where they'd run real live "what will nuclear radiation due to living things" in the forest. http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-nuclear-aircraft-laboratory An unshielded and exposed reactor is totally not as cool as a mushroom cloud though.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Every luxury car company is trying to replicate Audi's feat where they made an also-ran into a cool commodity again. Oh also - updating my post from 2 years ago - Cadillac is still making concept cars that they have no intention to build, and can get hosed.  Though I think their design is slipping; this 2016 Escala concept looks OK but is a far cry from the gorgeous CIel from a few years ago 
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sarcastx posted:Lincoln has finally got their own bespoke car, on a totally new platform shared with no other Ford. It looks pretty nice, it's identifiable as a Lincoln and doesn't look much like anything else in the market space. But that bespoke Lincoln just looks like an Audi ?
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Looks like a Bentley before you enlarge the picture, then it kinda has shades of Maserati. I like the glass roof though!
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sarcastx posted:This. Do you know why they do this? Is it a prestige thing or are they testing out design theories? Maybe they're just keeping engineers employed so no one else hires them?
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Beachcomber posted:Do you know why they do this? Is it a prestige thing or are they testing out design theories? Maybe they're just keeping engineers employed so no one else hires them? I actually asked them at the auto show where they unveiled the breathtaking Elmiraj;  They said something to the effect of "We do actually build the concepts we show! The Escalade was built from a concept!" I have never rolled my eyes so goddamn hard.
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Car marketing chat: They're brining back the El Camino for at least a few years. I want one very badly but I'm not in a position to buy a new car right now. http://www.epicspeed.net/brand-new-chevrolet-el-camino-ss-release-date-price-and-specs-for-2016/  Probably dumb marketing move but maybe genius, who knows.
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What if we took an old hot rod, and made it modern!??  And let's make it the colour of poo after a beet-heavy meal! Perfect!
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DavidAlltheTime posted:What if we took an old hot rod, and made it modern!?? Ten(?) year old me thought the prowler looked cool and you'll never take that nostalgic opinion from me.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:What if we took an old hot rod, and made it modern!?? The Prowler was not a hot rod in any sense of the term. It had a 200ish horsepower V6, with a 4-speed manumatic; it was an *embarassment* to hot rods. The PT Cruiser was also along the same lines of thought, and they sold a *shitload* of those cars, so not really a dumb move.
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Killed By Death posted:A question about a response to an ad, rather than the ad itself: I remember someone on this forum (if not this thread?) linking to a blog post about the Guinness wheelchair basketball ad; the blog post talked about how nothing in the ad was specific to Guinness, and noted a recent trend of ads where the point seemed to be to make you remember the advert, rather than the specific product. Does anyone know the blog I'm talking about? I'd like to read it again. Few pages back but I didn't see anyone respond, the blog is The Last Psychiatrist which was a good read back when it was actually updated and I'm pretty sure I posted it and that's all I did at all in this thread http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/real_men_want_to_drink_guinnes.html
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Phanatic posted:The Prowler was not a hot rod in any sense of the term. It had a 200ish horsepower V6, with a 4-speed manumatic; it was an *embarassment* to hot rods. If I remember correctly, wasn't the PT Cruiser a pretty average and inoffensive car despite its unusual appearance and that's why it's everywhere?
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Phanatic posted:The Prowler was not a hot rod in any sense of the term. It had a 200ish horsepower V6, with a 4-speed manumatic; it was an *embarassment* to hot rods. I just meant style-wise, I really had no idea what was under the hood.  A GIS for 'Custom Prowler' yields some lovely results.
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garfield hentai posted:Few pages back but I didn't see anyone respond, the blog is The Last Psychiatrist which was a good read back when it was actually updated and I'm pretty sure I posted it and that's all I did at all in this thread All of his marketing analyses are loving brilliant. Read his one on that Dove ad from a few years back: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html He really needs to start updating again. This isn't his, but it's also really good: a critique of that actually pretty vile Audi ad from the Superbowl: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/02/real-message-behind-audis-super-bowl-ad-isnt-exactly-uplifting-one/ quote:I assume the car is here because the client demanded that the product be shown, if only for three seconds. It’s actually a really lousy thing to do to the ad agency, because not only is a modern Audi absolutely incongruous in this 1982 dreamland, it raises an unpleasant question: Where’s the soapbox car? But even if you assume that the hicks who run this impromptu sanction seized it for technical inspection afterwards — I sure as hell would, it ran from near-last to first, doing that poo poo in Spec Miata will earn you a free engine teardown — it raises yet another, more difficult question: How’d the soapbox derby car get to the race in the first place? Phanatic has a new favorite as of 20:19 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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Len posted:Ten(?) year old me thought the prowler looked cool and you'll never take that nostalgic opinion from me. 
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chitoryu12 posted:If I remember correctly, wasn't the PT Cruiser a pretty average and inoffensive car despite its unusual appearance and that's why it's everywhere? quote:Rapaille's reliability quotient soared after he helped Chrysler with the PT Cruiser, a runaway success. The '30s gangster look gives a "don't-mess-with-me" message so buyers feel safe. But the interior is all about modern-day comforts. http://www.recordonline.com/article/20040327/entertain/303279969
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If only the Howler came out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Howler quote:The Plymouth Howler is a roadster concept car designed and built by Plymouth. It was first presented at the 1999 SEMA show. It is essentially a redesigned Prowler which addressed some of the complaints and problems existing Prowler owners had.
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Some friends who have more money than sense rented a bright yellow 1950's hotrod looking thing for a father/daughter dance. My wife looks at the picture on Facebook and asked why they were so proud of their PT Cruiser. PT Cruiser, so unstylish it drags down the style it's trying to ape.
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