Taglines are DUMB, NYC Auto Show edition.
(In honor of this week's Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center, I sifted through all the car slogans. Most of them are terrible, but these are my bottom 4)
• Moving Forward? I should hope so. You're a FUCKING car.
• Reach Higher? Do you think you could be any more generically meaningless?
• Born From Jets? Well, so are BMWs, Mitsubishis, etc. And, who gives a flying fuck? BMWs are also born from Gas Chambers (Bayerische Motoren Werke made them during WWII.) I don't envision that tidbit ever being used in their marketing materials.
• Grab Life By The Horns? Judging by Dodge's reliability record (Ram Tough my ass) you'll actually be grabbing your mechanic by the fucking neck. Often.
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posted by copyranter @ 8:02 AM
12 Comments:
Saab owners give a flying fuck. That's why they get all excited about the ignition being in the middle of the seats. And all. And since BMW was basically rescued by Hungarian Jews after WWII (and whom took the company from making stodgy executive cars to making sports cars), I don't think BMW (other than their logo) looks to kindly on the whole WWII period.
Ignition in the middle of the seats...yeah, that makes the car worth the extra $20,000. now, if it came with, you know, an actual jet engine and a coupla sidewinders standard...
uh oh. Jalopnik.com picked up my post. here come the gearheads...
taglines should be the bane of everyone's existance. It's just an excercise in marketing wank. And don't get me started on those written in italics... cause i'm sure many people in the world know how i feel about italics :)
Thanks for my whole post link, i was so proud!
Unfortunately i think the faces are rejecting... i've amped up the drugs, but all we can do is wait.
CR --
Now, obvious (and acknowledged in your profile description) is the fact that we like reading stupid stuff.
And taglines are dumb.
So when is this blog getting its own tagline?
Jumper
-- Born to get out of the womb.
Oops.
In deference to rikki's observation, let's make that:
Jumper
-- Born to get out of the womb.
DODGE-grab life by the horns... Slightly better than the only other suggestion- DODGE-No 'I' before the 'E'
It always struck me funny when those "Born from jets" comercials say "Saab was founded by 16 aircraft engineers, and their spirit lives on".
So it takes 16 aircraft engineers to build a stupid fucking car, eh? Wow. You'd think one or two of them could handle the job.
DODGE...
spelled with an E, not a Y.
Toyota hasn't come up with a decent tag line in a long time. Remember the abysmal "Everyday"? Those tag lines are reason enough to deter me from buying those pieces of junk.
A pedant writes...
I think you'll find the Sopwith Camel had relatively little to do with what Fritz was flying during WW1, being a British aeroplane.
Chin chin!
My personal favorite was a Mercury tagline from around 1994:
"Mercury. Dream of something better."
Cadillac? Volvo? Honda?
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