Ford ads: Gimme a break

[ScottB]

Cop out.
What percentage of people have criminal records?
Have been bankrupt?

I mean, at what point do they just make a vehicle worth buying and stop catering?
I guess I answered my own questions.

Scott

 

[Carbonics]

the criminals and bankrupted will be the next segment to pander to, criminals because if a vehicle is stolen a lot it must be good so joe blow thinks, and he goes and buys.

bankrupt because they can't file for a while, so give em a new car!

 

[ScottB]

 

[kkreit01]

I saw that commercial, and thought it was very lame and in poor taste as well. It's almost like they are promoting split families. I was getting real tired of Taylor Hicks as well. However, I don't purchase a vehicle base on commercials. I'd still buy a Ford.

 

[Blue_Goose]

I wanted to keep spinning that Taylor Hicks knucklehead into the ground so we would never have to see him again..congrats on your 15 minutes of fame..arrg

Yeah ads don't get me to buy cars anyways..I mean the Toyota ads rank right up there with Fords as being horrible but that didn't stop me..now VW has the best ads and as much as I enjoy them and love the cars I'm not sure if I could bring myself to buy 1.


Goose

 

[jmacmaster]

If you guys think that motor vehicle ads in general and Ford's in particular stink and aren't relevant to the product, start watching pizza ads. They're even worse. Its all about gimmicks. They don't have anything to do with the actual pizza itself and the quality and amount of the ingredients.

"It's merely reflecting the further emasculation of most men. We don't want a society of strong aggressive males. They're too hard to manage."

Right on, and its being done through a planned and insidious campaign by big business and the advertising industry, with the unspoken approval of the federal government. Advertising in general constantly shows the American male as a dumb, unatractive, ineffectual, wimp who hasn't a clue. Its in ad after ad. At the same time, big business has for a long time mounted a campaign to erode the purchasing power of our salaries and drastically reduce, and then take away, our health benefits, pensions, and job security. The goal is to have a population of producing and consuming compliant automatons who won't question the mounting control over all aspects of our lives by big business and the feds. And the fact that our purchasing power is constantly eroding does not bother them. They can sell their product overseas, and no longer need us to buy their products as much as they used to. Its much more to their benefit to lower our standard of living as much as possible to the level of the third world so that they don't have to pay us much in salary and benefits.

 

[Gary Allan]

Well, I still think that there's a substantial amount of competition for our $$$. But it's more like different factions getting a foothold ..or cementing their claim to "harvest the herd". No matter who wins (taxation, baseline living expenses, public funding of the private sector ..medical, ..private funding of a welfare/jobs program=WM, etc.) .......you're still the cattle that get sent to the slaughterhouse. You don't need any aggressive (aggresscif-crock hunter-RIP

) bulls balking as you send them up the chute.

 

[Tosh]

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Originally posted by jmacmaster:
"It's merely reflecting the further emasculation of most men. We don't want a society of strong aggressive males. They're too hard to manage."

Right on, and its being done through a planned and insidious campaign by big business and the advertising industry, with the unspoken approval of the federal government. Advertising in general constantly shows the American male as a dumb, unatractive, ineffectual, wimp who hasn't a clue. Its in ad after ad.

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It's not a conspiracy. The simple reason is that these ads are directed to women.

 

[obbop]

""It's merely reflecting the further emasculation of most men. We don't want a society of strong aggressive males. They're too hard to manage.""

""Right on, and its being done through a planned and insidious campaign by big business and the advertising industry, with the unspoken approval of the federal government. Advertising in general constantly shows the American male as a dumb, unatractive, ineffectual, wimp who hasn't a clue. Its in ad after ad. At the same time, big business has for a long time mounted a campaign to erode the purchasing power of our salaries and drastically reduce, and then take away, our health benefits, pensions, and job security. The goal is to have a population of producing and consuming compliant automatons who won't question the mounting control over all aspects of our lives by big business and the feds. And the fact that our purchasing power is constantly eroding does not bother them. They can sell their product overseas, and no longer need us to buy their products as much as they used to. Its much more to their benefit to lower our standard of living as much as possible to the level of the third world so that they don't have to pay us much in salary and benefits.""

I agree with both written utterances. It would take multiple tomes to prove my belief ao will shun a posting 13,593 pages long (the crowd sighs in relief).

Oh yeah, there are plenty of exceptions...my mom married one... a multi-millionaire from inherited wealth. Happy for mom; I kept my distance. I did observe the attitudes of those with much more wealth than the average American worker. The wealthy tend...TEND to be isolated from the realities many of us experience.

So many things that could be mentioned. Before I go, cater to your resident Obbop for a moment;

I hear the news reports about X amount of jobs created during a certain time period. For years I have noticed that job-creation figure was less than the number of legal immigrants and the estimated number of non-legal immigrants (note poltical correct phrasing)entering the USA for the same period.

Hmmmmmmm......

Above comments are meant to be socio-economic in nature.

Thank you, thank you very much.

/Obbop has left the little box on the monitor

 

[acewiza]

Wow, you guys are nuts!!

(I mean that in a good way...

)

 

[SSQ]

Watching ford commercials makes me want to grab myself some Head On, so I can stick it directly into my head, Head On, just stick it in your head....

With all the recent job cuts, they probably fired all the good marketing people as well. Their bold moves commercials are full of.... maniacs (guy going to germany for speeding), sad looking losers (divorced guy), really desperate housewifes (woman at laundry place), and such. Owning a ford really does screw things up doesnt it.

 

[Tosh]

I think they're on the right track (oops) with the Mustang Cobra ad. Maybe when Ford brings the new Focus, they'll show ads with the awesome Ford WRC rally car. And who could get enough of seeing the Ford GT? And there's Champ Car 'Powered by Ford' and Mustang drifting footage to use.

 

[mikemc]

If they put the majority of the advertising budget into customer incentives, they'd be better off IMHO. If you want a rumbling V-8 Mustang or an F-150, a commercial isn't likely to make you want it more. A better price might.

 

[ScottB]

I went to the local Ford dealership this weekend which has tons of Mustangs and a lot of the Rouche models.
Too expensive - and if they're trying to sell, they should put big discounted stickers on there - they still have the sticker price and on the Rouche models, the secondary stickers taking them over 40k.
Please. A convertible GT pretty much blah with a good motor for 35k?
How can they compete?
They ought to just cut 7k off the stickers and hope they move.
If they acted like they were in as much trouble as they are, I'd have left with a new 'Stang, but they didn't.
The salespeople act like nothing is wrong, and that they still have hot product...
I feel bad for these folks.

Scott

 

[Racerjk]

Men are stupid especially if they also happen to be dads according to the old boob tube.

 

[Matt89]

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Originally posted by CivicFan:
Their 'Bold Move' ad campaign is one of the worst things I've seen. They have gone nuts. They are panicking, and it's not good.

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Yeah, no kidding. Like the one where the lady in the Fusion or whatever pays for the dude in the mustang's dry cleaning.

I may be married almost 8 years now, but I distinctly recall the "Psycho" music that would ring in my ears if some unknown woman tried something like that on me when I was single.