We get a bit of a burr in our britches every time we hear that gussied-up Neanderthal Howie Long extolling the virtues of the new line of Chevrolet cars, trucks and SUVs … a pitch which invariably ends with the tagline “May the best car win.”
Wait … what?
“May the best car win?”
Is he serious?
We hate it break it to no-neck and his government-funded script-writers, but the best cars already won.
Their names (well, two of them, anyway)?
Camry and Accord.
In fact, these cars won so decisively that in an actual capitalist economy built on consumerism (as opposed to the centrally-planned, socialist republic that’s infected the United States), Chevy’s parent company, the former General (now Government) Motors would simply no longer exist.
But, as this hilarious poster aptly presaged, they’re “taking our money even though we didn’t buy their sh*tty cars.”
Meanwhile, the one company that didn’t take bailout billions, Ford, seems to have found the formula for profitability.
By Mike Reino December 4, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Even the CEO quit, what three months after starting the ad campaign? I’ve seen staring contests that lasted longer..
By OMG_Not_a_socialist!!!!! December 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Sounds like sour grapes to me. I don’t see anyone here making as much of a big stink about our banking system or the oil companies that have been receiving billions upon billions of dollars of government aid/tax breaks.. not just since the economic collapse but even when the economy was doing “well” under Clinton and Bush Jr. The American automakers (especially GM and Chrysler) are easy targets because they employ union members who apparently are all evil, lazy people who do nothing but sit around all day while millions of cars are magically built each year in the US. At least our automakers return money into the economy while a select few bankers and oil execs get multi-billion dollar bonuses for ripping people off.