Are these people crazy? This is what happens when you have 20-something kids in charge of advertising – taste and common sense go out the window. What companies are guilty of now is the notion that in order to get “in tune” with the yoot crowd, you need to hire yoots (punks) to do the marketing.

This scion website is the result of that insanity.

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Ok, who asked “Can I have a car that looks like a cracker box on a skateboard?”

Your prayers have been answered, baybee…

mojo on July 9, 2007 at 2:49 PM

I like ‘em. Bought one last year. Didn’t give a damn about the carbon footprint, but did care about the fact that at 46 and with 2 blown out knees it’s probably the easiest car to get in and out of I’ve ever owned. Saw one on the street and took a look and decided it was ugly enough to look pretty good :) . And for the price in my opinion you get one hell of a lot of car for the money. Met a guy who actually traded in his mini-van for one because it had more passenger room.

As for the ad. One word – weird. But I also watch a lot of Japanese anime, and this is mild in comparison.

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Oh, wait. I forgot.

The “intellectual progressives” want us to drive Scions. To “Save Holy Mother Gaia”.

Just like they want us to live in arcologies or small villages, dress like Greenwich Village Bohemians of the Fifties (see From Bauhaus To Our House by Tom Wolfe), recycle everything, do primal scream therapy, crystal-gaze, and discuss Proust while walking in the rain.

I drive a 1990 Lumina minivan.

This tempts me. To put a bumper sticker on the back of it saying, “My Other Car Is A Klingon Battle Cruiser.”

Qp’Lah!

cheers

eon

SO GLAD I didn’t buy the Scion! This is the most retarded campaign since LiveEarth.

Yes, I believe that was the one. Apparently, it didn’t do very well. Never saw it again.

I kinda liked that one. And it wasn’t trying to sell me an SUV.

Bad Candy on July 9, 2007 at 4:08 PM

Thanks BC, it makes a bit more sense now.

If I had a Scion*, I’d want to kill, too.

Myself.

(*Shoebox meets short bus.)

As I was playing this game, something just perfect for the mood I was in, after countless days, and nights on the nations freeways, a young boy, about 14 or so, walked over to see what the game was about. After I explained the theme of the game, the boy said, “That’s sick!”, and walked away, in disgust.

I could only laugh as the [virtual] desperate mob overwhelmed my virtual self, and pounded me into a bloody spot on the video screen.

And Deviants could only have been selected as the name for the home team by someone who doesn’t speak English as a first, or even distant second, language.

unless they’re going for a very focused market.

He must be a sheeple.

Ill-Conceived….absolutely.

So I’ll explain tuners, You ever see or heard of the movie, ‘The Fast and the Furious’, or seen crappy cheapo cars with usually crappy looking custom body panels, gaudy fins and decals or paint, maybe custom rims and a loud muffler? Tuners. Some people call them ricers, but its a less PC term, so I went with tuner.

In the voice of the Simpsons comic book guy:Worst ad campaign ever.

/My Cousin Vinnie