Ford to sue GM over TV ad

[anto]

Originally Posted by Spammy

It's unfortunate when facts get in the way of blind adoration.

blind adoration ? sure I make no apologies about it, I do actually like the Ford product....for good reason I might add.

You do realise this is a forum for Ford enthusiasts right ?

[Grunter]

Originally Posted by anto

blind adoration ? sure I make no apologies about it, I do actually like the Ford product....for good reason I might add.

You do realise this is a forum for Ford enthusiasts right ?

You do realise that you are in the "General Automotive" section of Ford Forums right?

[anto]

yes and your point is ?

[TC200six]

Maybe it was GM's long awaited revenge on Ford for this ad outtake in the early 90s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Kq5B47_S0

[GTP-RPD]

anyways.......my favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZbXvts0LE


oh and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrJgFjxlS0

hubba hubba....

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by GTP-RPD

anyways.......my favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZbXvts0LE


oh and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrJgFjxlS0

hubba hubba....

DO NOT try turn this into a You Tube thread, there is already one available.

[2011G6E]

I'd still like Ford to do a "how many are still on the road"...I don't know about where you are, but I can drive from here to Rocky and see a total of at least four or five F100's sitting on farms in various states of disrepair, obviously not having moved for many years, and more on the way down to Bundy along the highway. I even see the odd one sitting beside a farm shed from the train as we drive along. Chev trucks were sold here in decent numbers, but you simply don't seem to see them just rusting away in a paddock. Now, of course there were probably less Chev trucks sold than F100's, but you know...

...sorry...

[DanielXR8]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

I'd still like Ford to do a "how many are still on the road"...I don't know about where you are, but I can drive from here to Rocky and see a total of at least four or five F100's sitting on farms in various states of disrepair, obviously not having moved for many years, and more on the way down to Bundy along the highway. I even see the odd one sitting beside a farm shed from the train as we drive along. Chev trucks were sold here in decent numbers, but you simply don't seem to see them just rusting away in a paddock. Now, of course there were probably less Chev trucks sold than F100's, but you know...

...sorry...

Yeap the only thing that lingers longer in the car world then a Ford F100 in a paddock is a Sigma. They spend several years as paddock bashers, have two or three non essential parts pulled from the mechanical (you know pistons and stuff), reregistered and back on the road. If the Sigma is in Beige or yellow it somehow becomes indestructible. I wish it weren't the case, but they are true survivors. Examples will still be going long after the Magna that succeeded it are long gone.

My apologies to Anto in advance for mentioning the Sigma, which is clearly not a Ford product.

[No.6]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

I assume you've seen the fourth poster in that series, the one by Bentley...
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BAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA thats GOLD!!!

[BHDOGS]

Ford should sue gm then run an ad saying we thought we'd like some tax payers money so we sued gm

[Franco Cozzo]

Ford's lawyers must be bored sitting in the office clicking their pens all day.

Why don't they just air an ad picking on them for taking government money rather than cry foul and try sue.

[Chopped]

A bit of a lame ad really. I liked the Seinfield NSX ad.

I saw my first Toyota Tundra (black) in Brisbane the other day. It looked pretty good (for a Toyota).

[ivorya]

Originally Posted by TC200six

Maybe it was GM's long awaited revenge on Ford for this ad outtake in the early 90s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Kq5B47_S0

The best add i've come across.

[Corzza]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

All Ford need to do is have a black screen, and show the total of how many 100,000's of F series they sold last year, and then show Chevy's lower total, and then a guy laughing his butt off in the background.

Then finish with Ford- No1 in pick ups for the last 35 years. Anything else is just a pretender. GM can't even catch us with a government bailout.

Then more laughing.

That would sting.

Amen!

[babyf6]

Originally Posted by Corzza

Amen!

that sums it up

[jpd80]

The first rule in advertising is to promote your own product, extoll its features
and never under any circumstances, mention a competitor,
especially if it outsells your product..

[1TUFFUTE]

Originally Posted by jpd80

The first rule in advertising is to promote your own product, extoll its features
and never under any circumstances, mention a competitor,
especially if it outsells your product..

exactly...the guy who was guna buy a ford will still buy his ford. The guy who was guna buy a GM will still buy a GM...but the guy who was looking at the GM and is partial and unbiased will now go and look at the ford.....and see that it is a much tougher truck....and buy it

[MethodX]

Originally Posted by anto

5 posts in this thread and 2 back the other team...kinda sums up Ford forums these days

The bad team is the japanese team.
all the american multinationals are in it together.

[Moby Vic]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Ford's lawyers must be bored sitting in the office clicking their pens all day.

Why don't they just air an ad picking on them for taking government money rather than cry foul and try sue.

They already did that, and GM raised a fuss, and Ford stopped showing the ad.

The ad had a supposed Ford owner at a fake press conference saying that one of the reasons he bought a Ford was that Ford hadn't taken bailout money.

[Nikked]

There probally is more Chev trucks still registed in america...


...because Aussie's snap the second hand ones up!

[Brazen]

Originally Posted by jpd80

The first rule in advertising is to promote your own product, extoll its features
and never under any circumstances, mention a competitor,
especially if it outsells your product..

You have that wrong, if you are being outsold by a competitor, you mention them as you want people to associate your product with theirs. If you are the biggest seller you never mention a competitor as that validates and legitimises their product.