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Glorious wrote:After the Apocalypse there will be an easy way to solve such problems.
To the Thunderdome!
tanker27 wrote:Ford just needs to retaliate by making a commercial citing the fact that their name isnt Government Motors and that they didnt take an TARP hand outs.
TurtlePerson2 wrote:Tell that to Coke and Pepsi.I think there's some sort of unwritten rule in advertising, that you never mention your competitor by name. Even those commercials during the Super Bowl that were making fun of the iPhone never showed an iPhone or explicitly said "iPhone" or "Apple."
tanker27 wrote:Ford just needs to retaliate by making a commercial citing the fact that their name isnt Government Motors and that they didnt take an TARP hand outs.
Hawkwing74 wrote:tanker27 wrote:Ford just needs to retaliate by making a commercial citing the fact that their name isnt Government Motors and that they didnt take an TARP hand outs.
Well, they had one but Team Obama pulled that.
just brew it! wrote:http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/story/2012-02-06/ford-protests-GM-Silverado-Super-Bowl-ad/52988172/1
Ford is POed that GM implied Ford's pickup trucks won't survive the apocalypse.
W...T...F?!??
Guess one of Ford's lawyers was really bored and looking for something to do...
Glorious wrote:After the Apocalypse there will be an easy way to solve such problems.
To the Thunderdome!
danny e. wrote:a much better response would be to come out with an ad about why the chevy owners are all left behind.. while all the Ford Saints were raptured.
JohnC wrote:...turns out, Ford didn't really need to threaten the GM; they got better sales possibly because of this Ad and should instead send GM teh cake or something.
http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/10 ... ms-fallout
just brew it! wrote:JohnC wrote:...turns out, Ford didn't really need to threaten the GM; they got better sales possibly because of this Ad and should instead send GM teh cake or something.
http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/10 ... ms-fallout
The article doesn't say anything about sales increasing. Just that more people were visiting the Ford web site.
JohnC wrote:Not Ford's website - KBB's website. Anyway, it is obvious that only Ford and GM themselves have access to the actual sales data (from their dealers) and obviously they will never share that (they only share yearly sales), so the only way you can openly approximate how "effective" Ad was is to measure the potential customer's "interest" in particular model by measuring how many of them were using "research tools" on sites like KBB or Edmunds or similar ones.
FuturePastNow wrote:I don't believe either company's trucks will survive the apocalypse, since there will be no more fuel refined and no more spare parts made beyond that point.