Buy this car or the ad narrator will make sweet sweet prison love to you
Are there really people who buy the latest Ford ABCDEFG Falcon or Holden Commode after listening to ads voiced by some dude who sounds like he called the ad agency to breathe heavily down the line to the receptionist? It's really fucking creepy. I'm sure it's supposed to make me feel more manly and thus see myself behind the wheel of a fuel guzzling v8 attached to a prehistoric chassis with sub par safety features, but really I just want to call triple 0. And why is it so plasticky? God, no wonder I hate car people...
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For some reason people that drive these cars have the same road using tendencies as shiny ute drivers.
It looks like Tupperware on wheels...say that in that creepy voice and you'll be so convinced you'll go and buy one.
I get people who are into old cars...it actually took time and effort to put them together and driving them is actually something that takes some effort.
These days, you sit in your lettuce crisper, point and shoot and it's done. There's no pleasure in driving something like that.
we were walking through st lucia and saw an e-type jag coupe that had obviously been given to some kiddie. the bodywork was rusty, it had dings in it. we both nearly cried. poor car. that and it's worth in the neighbourhood of 100 grand if looked after.
Um, the current Commodores and Falcons have pretty much the same chassis technology - anti-lock brakes and stability control - as most new European and Japanese cars.
Not to mention a pretty full set of passive safety gear - airbags and the like.
It's the poverty-pack Korean hatches and SUVs that don't include modern safety technology, particularly active safety. They're also notorious for featuring crappy tyres that don't stop very well in the wet.
I don't think much of the marketing either, and they are indeed fuel guzzlers (though, again, not nearly as bad as the Toyota Prados that suburbanites are buying en masse to replace them), but if everybody switched to cars with stability control - and that includes the new Falcon and Commodores - the expert estimate is that road deaths would drop by about 25%.
that's true, i'd point out that they've just caught up, stung into action by a raft of competitive imports that have had a high level of safety as standard for years. until they figure out how to make competitive, efficient engines, as opposed to shoving massive, fuel hogging blocks under the bonnet, it's only half hearted. and that's leaving aside build quality etc.
just meant to add that our car industry seems to have learned nothing from the impending doom of the us auto industry. they kept making yesterday's cars until it was too late as well.
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