Automakers find hip-hop brings bling to bottom line

[NFS4]

Automakers find hip-hop brings bling to bottom line

 

[StageLeft]

Well I suppose it's not their responsibility to prevent imminent bankruptcy in young adults from overspending on flashy automobiles, so all the power to them.

 

[dpopiz]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Well I suppose it's not their responsibility to prevent imminent bankruptcy in young adults from overspending on flashy automobiles, so all the power to them.

nor their responsibility to prevent people from WASTING money, energy, landfill space, and crapping up the air

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Bling Bling, Word Excel Outlook Express, fo rizzle my wizzles.

- M4H

 

[bozack]

good for them, I would rather see more nice cars out and about.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

"And urban is directly related to hip-hop," said J Mays, Ford's design chief. "I'm talking about P. Diddy, Lil' Kim, Eminem, droopy jeans, bling bling. It's cool."

I can just picture an old white guy in a suit saying this to an Autoweek interviewer.

Volvo is creating commercials for its new S40 with hip-hop band Dilated Peoples.

Cool, Dilated Peoples are a very good group.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: bozack
good for them, I would rather see more nice cars out and about.

In that case, you should be against this Bling movement.

- M4H

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: dpopiz

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Well I suppose it's not their responsibility to prevent imminent bankruptcy in young adults from overspending on flashy automobiles, so all the power to them.

nor their responsibility to prevent people from WASTING money, energy, landfill space, and crapping up the air

Unfortuantely, no

I can just picture an old white guy in a suit saying this to an Autoweek interviewer.

Haha me too!

In that case, you should be against this Bling movement.

Step back, Hata!

 

[kranky]

That tells me how easily people are swayed by advertising and their fixation on celebrity worship.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: kranky
That tells me how easily people are swayed by advertising and their fixation on celebrity worship.

:beer: