TTAC Giveaway: Meguiar's Car Care Products

It's time for another giveaway! This time we can thank the folks at Meguiar's for providing us with not one, not two, but three sets of products to give away to three lucky winners.

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Housekeeping: We Have a Winner for the ThinkWare Dash Cam!

We have a winner from last month's ThinkWare Dash Cam contest.

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Housekeeping: Announcing the Bridgestone Summer Tire Giveaway Winner

We here at TTAC are happy to announce that we have a winner from the Bridgestone summer tire giveaway we ran at the end of April.

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Housekeeping: We Have a Winner!

We’re pleased to announce the winner of our Bridgestone Winter Tire Giveaway.

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Volvo Urging People Not To Watch the Super Bowl

Volvo is taking a very unique approach to its advertising for the Super Bowl this year. Rather than simply have the network air its commercials during the breaks, it has decided to compete with the game directly for viewership.

Called “The Longest Drive,” the automaker’s smartphone game is reminiscent of dealer and radio contests where people have to keep their hands on the car to win it. The difference here is that Volvo is concerned with your eyes. Participants will compete to log the most amount of time looking at stock footage of the Volvo S60 in the hopes of claiming one as a prize.

Mercedes-Benz tried something similar last year with its digitized “Last Fan Standing” competition. In that contest, people were asked to keep their finger on a Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupe as the company monitored their cell phone, waiting for them to make a mistake. Unfortunately, mistakes were made long before the contest began.

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  • Analoggrotto Another brilliant decision from a company known for making brilliant decisions. In 5 years or less we will be reading about how they plan to fully refurbish the building (thanks tax payers) and move right back in. Hyundai should buy this building and use it as a Nexus of Affluence.
  • SCE to AUX Hmm, must be part of Detroit's ongoing renewal.
  • SCE to AUX Polls about electric cars are worthless, but the media loves them."35 percent saying they might consider one"... Ridiculously untrue, unless that fraction meant 'might' = 50% and 'consider' = 20%, so you get a more realistic 10%.Likewise, the variance in unreliable polls only makes things worse, so comparing this year's bad poll to last year's bad poll is just dumb.
  • Ras815 "Showroom quality"? Which showroom would that be - a rural small-town used car lot?
  • TheMrFreeze Whenever I see "Junior" used like this, in my mind I hear Sean Connery calling Harrison Ford "Junior" in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"