I was reading a yahoo sports blog and I came across this piece, freaking hilarious.
Most American truck owners. Howie Long thinks you’re a pansy. If you have a heated steering wheel or a step that helps you get into the bed of your truck, then you probably wear frilly pink panties with your work boots. And if you own a Ford, Dodge, or (heaven forbid) Honda truck or SUV, then why don’t you go bake a crème brûlée and write Richard Simmons a fan letter, Suzy? YOU DISGUST HOWIE LONG.
At about 7:30 last night, I was absolutely punch drunk on truck commercials. A man can only take so many. Say you watched 14 hours of football and pregame shows this weekend, and say there were six truck commercials in any given hour of programming (I feel like that’s a conservative estimate). That’s 84 truck commercials in two days, all of them assuming that’s you’re some sort of illiterate beast who cares only about how manly your truck is perceived to be, and how cool it will look driving away from an explosion.
No wonder the American auto industry is performing like Jake Delhomme. We’re pouring all our efforts into these giant trucks that very, very, very few people actually need, paying untold millions to advertise them, and then bragging that they get 21 miles per gallon.
The upside, though, is that I’ve never been more confident about Howie Long’s masculinity. So there’s that.
-Can’t disagree, the commercials are about as bad as a the product. The worst had to be when Howie was for some reason driving around and picking up men on the side of the road.
[QUOTE=stonecoldken;378594]Howie’s commercials are dumb.
Isn’t it just nice & smart to not have frozen hands, or to not to step to high so you don’t break your neck?[/QUOTE]
I personally believe that the manstep is the greatest feature in the history of trucks.
It will be funny when Chevy boy Howie busts his neck because he didn’t use a man-step because he wanted to prove his “manhood” to all the football watchers.
Hell does he think new needles at the doctor, & fresh condoms with a girl, instead of recycling them is pansy too. Hell he probably bites himself, spits in the medicine, & waits for the clot to dry instead of getting a shot & band-aid, & he probably always has sex without condoms before he was married because he was a real man & lived dangerously, huh?
[QUOTE=stonecoldken;378600]Hell does he think new needles at the doctor, & fresh condoms with a girl, instead of recycling them is pansy too. Hell he probably bites himself, spits in the medicine, & waits for the clot to dry instead of getting a shot & band-aid, & he probably always has sex without condoms before he was married because he was a real man & lived dangerously, huh?[/QUOTE]
FYI, a bunch of those commercials were shot in Charlotte. They called it “The Chevy Movie”, because it was like a month’s worth of work (most commercials are 1-3 days worth of work)
No wonder the American auto industry is performing like Jake Delhomme. We're pouring all our efforts into these giant trucks that very, very, very few people actually need, paying untold millions to advertise them, and then bragging that they get 21 miles per gallon.
-Can’t disagree, the commercials are about as bad as a the product.
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the American truck is going nowhere. Ford’s F-150 is its #1 selling product. You know how many farmers, contractors, hunters, etc there are? They aren’t switching to Civics or Priuses.
FYI, the American truck is not a bad product either. They get 20+ mpg on the hwy, and my pickup literally handles better than the wife’s Volvo SUV.
I will vomit if I see the Dodge commercial again with the teams out in the desert. And Long is a d-bag. However those original Tundra commercials were badass and entertaining.
[QUOTE=Ninerballin;379243]Toyota makes the best product out there in the Tundra, and it’s been that way for years.[/QUOTE]
I’ve got a buddy with a Tundra and he likes it, but I’ve got an '03 Chevy with 115,000 miles and it’s been great. Hell- I’ve never even changed the brake pads.
[QUOTE=hootie;379245]I’ve got a buddy with a Tundra and he likes it, but I’ve got an '03 Chevy with 115,000 miles and it’s been great. Hell- I’ve never even changed the brake pads.[/QUOTE]
Nah, I’ve taken them off a few times to check. The calipers are huge- I’ve had almost no wear. I was as surprised as anyone, I’ve hauled tons of loads of mulch, construction waste, etc in a Dump Trailer. Actually bought pads and took them back at 90k miles.
[QUOTE=hootie;379245]I’ve got a buddy with a Tundra and he likes it, but I’ve got an '03 Chevy with 115,000 miles and it’s been great. Hell- I’ve never even changed the brake pads.[/QUOTE]
I own a Tundra and I agree.
Huck Fowie!
I won’t argue the merits of one truck vs. another, there are gems and lemons in every batch. Yet even as a child I remember ALL of Chevy’s truck commercials were always about “we’re better then Ford”. “Hey, look at the C/K, men drive C/K’s, not F-Series.” Now they throw Toyota in as well. Never been a Chevy fan for that reason, probably never will.
[QUOTE=49RFootballNow;379347]I own a Tundra and I agree.
Huck Fowie!
I won’t argue the merits of one truck vs. another, there are gems and lemons in every batch. Yet even as a child I remember ALL of Chevy’s truck commercials were always about “we’re better then Ford”. “Hey, look at the C/K, men drive C/K’s, not F-Series.” Now they throw Toyota in as well. Never been a Chevy fan for that reason, probably never will.[/QUOTE]
clt says that tundras look like they have down syndrome.
