Comments on: Daily Podcast: Sex Sells

By: rx8totheendoftime

rx8totheendoftime — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:21:25 +0000

nice ‘drag’ queen

By: NeonCat93

NeonCat93 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:02:45 +0000

Not to be snarky and/or judgmental, but I think he’d be more turned on by a mirror.

@ Airhen
In advertising, I would think, neutrality=forgettable.

By: Vorenus

Vorenus — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:00:00 +0000

AWD takes away the fun of driving a Mini, Mr. Farago?

How so? WRXs are fun, and they have AWD.

By: ConejoZing

ConejoZing — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:33:05 +0000

You know, the thing is, the BMW will probably “put out” more and require less maintenance than most girls. Make sure to change the oil every once in awhile. Ah, it’s a material world. And he is a material… man?

By: GS650G

GS650G — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:51:43 +0000

Ad is completely appropriate as a two bagger needs to be covered up to maintain oil pressure.

By: TR4

TR4 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:01:46 +0000

But the Chrysler 300 (and probably others) have high beltlines and they sell well. So we have to copy this…don’t we?

By: BuzzDog

BuzzDog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:46:22 +0000

High beltlines, combined with thicker A- and C-pillars to meet rollover standards, are making it nigh impossible to see out of vehicles these days. The pillar thickness I can understand, but are the high beltlines there for side-impact protection…or is its purpose just to achieve some sort of “look?”

Looking back at the recent editorial on Tom McCahill, ol’ Uncle Tom used to always comment on his ability to see all four corners of a car from the driver’s seat. If (or rather, when) stronger roof-strength standards come to pass, good luck in being able to see out of a vehicle at all…

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:43:54 +0000

GM made the right decision to pull out of the Gay Days at the Movies and shouldn’t have gotten involved in this in the first place. It may be news to some however many Americans do not approve of the lifestyle or companies supporting it, especially when public funds are being used to back the company.

It’s not an issue of prejudice as Niedermeyer claims, rather it is in a company’s interest to stay as neutral as possible in their marketing efforts unless their demographics is mainly one group of people.

By: BlueBrat

BlueBrat — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:21:11 +0000

The high beltline is why I find the new Camaro hideous as well. Completely agree with Niedermeyer.

By: Prado

Prado — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:45:50 +0000

I also can’t stand the high beltline trend. Funny you brought up the Matrix, because coming out to my car today I noticed one, and couldn’t help but think to myself how hidious it looked with it’s high swooping beltline. The proportions of these high beltline vehicles look terrible unless you put ridiculously large rims on them. And to add insult to this perticular Matrix, parked near by was a perfeclty proportioned previous generation Jetta.

By: ddrone

ddrone — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:26:09 +0000

@BuzzDog Yes it does, but only because you capitolized the b.

By: BuzzDog

BuzzDog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:17:28 +0000

If I have a “thing” for Maserati sedans, does that make me a Biturbosexual?

By: don1967

don1967 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:57:21 +0000

Ewww…. a beemersexual….

By: ddrone

ddrone — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:54:55 +0000

mmmh, GM kinda knew what they were doing. They didn’t need to run the ad, it was viral the moment the PR people thought of it. No precious tax dollar is spent in obvious vain.

By: SOF in training

SOF in training — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:47:34 +0000

Sorry, that car looks a bit “Rubinesque”. The light agility of a Lotus keeps me hard.
On second thought, the Lotus would wear me out and still be wanting more. The BMW may not be my ideal, but at least we have a chance of being satisfied at the same time.