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Jaguar Drives Its Brand Off A Cliff
The management and marketing geniuses at Jaguar, the iconic car manufacturer, apparently under the impression that the transgender and LGBTQ+ market is enormous, have just released a commercial that they feel will bring thousands if not millions of new buyers to their brand. Perhaps these marketing geniuses were impressed with the self-immolation marketing effort of Bud Light linking their brand to Dylan Mulvaney. They could have also been influenced by any number of other advertisers like Gillette, Target, and others who have embraced the LGBTQ+ community in hopes of increasing sales and market share.
Or perhaps they’re actually nitwits who didn’t detect the shift in the zeitgeist that is rejecting the militant trans and LGBTQ+ agenda, as evidenced in the effectiveness of one of the Trump campaign’s last commercials that excoriated Kamala Harris for supporting the trans agenda. Yes, of course, this brilliant Jaguar campaign may have been in the works for several months, so the marketing team may have happily plowed ahead thinking that they were achieving something brilliant for the brand. Is the marketing calculation that heterosexual men who comprise most of the Jaguar target market and who desire a sports car, an SUV, or sports sedan, that can perform like a well-tuned race car on curvy country roads will somehow be influenced by a sullen-looking man in a dress holding a sledgehammer? Or are Jaguar sales about to get hammered?
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Some rowdies have been flashing the news. Seems they get busted for indecent exposure.
OK. So when you invoke the word “geolocation” as it relates to me (a word which really does mean something) you didn’t really know what it meant and you don’t really care to defend your use of it , because you are just pulling the word out of thin air to sound important.
Your use of it is independent of its meaning and you don’t really care where I am: US, UK, SE Asia, Middle East, Central/Eastern/Northern Europe, doesn’t matter. “Geolocation” is just a word. Like “woman.” And, just like all those other words which don’t really mean anything, you can pull them out of any orifice and argue about them whenever it’s convenient for you to throw them about.
You choose to insult and demean me because you don’t like what you call my “strange, unresponsive comment.”
LOL, If my comment hadn’t been all that responsive, I guess you’d not have bothered to respond.
You accuse me of “paranoia.” Trust me. I am not the one exhibiting a mental illness here.
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People, we’re all friends here. This has been a friendly thread. Let’s just take a deep breath and not make a fight of it.
Let me tell you something. If I ever get enough money before I get too old to buy one of these things I’m Not!
Take that ya jag!
“Start flashing the news,
I’ve no pants today…
I’m gonna sleep right on the street, L.A., L.A….”
Some of us will never let go of our British tin.
Guess I’m back to holding out for the Lamborghini, then.
For Jeeves maybe
For some reason that reminded me of an archive photo feature in a British car magazine. One month they found a picture of a snowbound Rolls, circa 1955. A rear window was open and a man was crooking his finger towards the photographer. The magazine captioned it, “You there! Snappy-chappy! Be a good fellow and give us a push, won’t you? That’s a good man. Here’s a bob and a farthing for your troubles.”
Perhaps they will just discharge and fade away.
Back in the day, including when I had the TR8, my “dream” was a Lotus Esprit. I guess it still could be.
A lot of people don’t realize how SMALL the Lambos really are.
Before finally buying the TR8 (from circle-track race-driver Monte Shelton’s dealership in Portland), among other test-drives I had was an Alfa Romeo GTV6, which I tested at/from Ron Tonkin Gran Turismo, also in Portland. There was a Lamborghini Countach in the showroom, and it was surprisingly small.
As it happens, Ron Tonkin himself accompanied me on the test drive, and I had a chance to thank him in person for sponsoring Sinister Cinema all those years.
Aaaaand… Paul Chato changes his mind.
Unless he also changes (what passes for) his mind about making only EVs, it’s still nuts.
This just came up for me on YT, doesn’t look like anybody posted it yet:
See also Comment #108
Jaguar’s new EV model revealed…a pink box…(also available in blue). Curves are apparently patriarchal and so CIS-gender …https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/jaguar-concept-leaked-full-ahead-reveal-tonight