Sunday, October 28, 2007

Well this is discouraging

I'm not going to update this blog on any sort of set concrete schedule, only when the whim strikes me. The whim struck me while I was driving home tonight, so I decided that I'd post again. Why is this discouraging, you ask? Well, no one has read my first post. Yet, I must press on.

The Toyota Tundra... I think the message Toyota is trying to put out is that the Tundra is the manliest truck ever. This wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't think that the ads make no sense at all. There are two ads I would like to look at particularly.

1- The tie-down ad- Now, maybe it's because they are pitting the Tundra up against my favorite truck ever, the Ford F-150, but I hate this ad. They strap a dirt bike into the bed of both trucks, and then proceed to shake, rattle, and then roll the trucks upside down. When will a truck ever roll upside down. This position is not safe for trucks. If my truck were to roll over, I would fear not for my cargo, but for my life. This is their USP, their truck can flip over, and your dirt bike won't be damaged, they hope. They could have shown their tie-down clips any number of ways, on an actual road, but they use a robotic arm instead. The ad just upsets me.

2- The one with the train- (Can you tell I don't know the exact names of the ads) The chain breaks before the chassis. WHOP DI DO!!!! It's a chain. The chain is made of metal. Your chassis is made out of metal. Way to make a big chassis stronger than a small couple links in a chain. AHHHHH! OK, I've gotten that one out of my system. I apologize.

Now this is not to say that I hate the Toyota Tundra. Quite the opposite, I think they are nice looking trucks, and being made by Toyota, they would probably run forever. The ads are just horrible. Bring back the strange ads where the truck is going down that incline see-saw thing, I like that one. But these two need to stop.

Well I think that is enough rambling for today.
Peace

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