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Old 03-31-14, 10:15 PM   #1
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Default Hilarious commercial: Ford vs Cadillac

http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-...-2014-3#!CfaaP

Does FORD "destroy" Cadillac in this exchange? What't the message here, which one is "better"? I had to laugh. I see what Ford is trying to do, but its hard to take it seriously. Gimme them vegetables!

Are you the Cadillac or the Ford? (Or of course, neither).
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Old 03-31-14, 11:46 PM   #2
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I've always been a Ford guy...

Hard to beat 'em.
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Old 04-01-14, 12:30 AM   #3
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I thought both ads were lame.
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Old 04-01-14, 05:46 AM   #4
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I've always been a Ford guy...

Hard to beat 'em.
Ford roofs aren't too good.
Ford is also experimenting with another option for the 2015 model year for F-150s and up. It is a heated tailgate, for when you have to push it home in winter.
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Old 04-01-14, 06:09 AM   #5
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I have to admit it, I prefer Fords over GM's. Even though I drive a Jeep. It is what I needed at the time. Because my Lincoln wouldn't climb the slight slope in my driveway in winter.
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Old 04-01-14, 07:07 AM   #6
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Check the history of Ford...

I've seen the home that Henry Ford owned when he got started in the auto biz and it has a bit of a checkered past. Like union organizers that went in and came out the tunnel leading to the orchard out back. Let's just say that they didn't leave under their own power.
Funny thing. Now they say that the unions saved their butts when the recession hit and bankrupted GM and Chrysler.
I've worked on many brands of automobiles and Fords are the worst from the mechanics point of view. I think they're using monkeys as engineers.
If you don't accept that, try changing the spark plugs on a V-8 Mustang.
Go ahead. I've got plenty of band-aids. Or a Ranger pickup that has two sets of plugs and requires removal of the engine to reach the second set.
Clever ads will never sell me a car. Especially a Ford.

By the way Henry, the 70's called and they want that afro back.
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Both attempting to appeal to a certain group of people. I'm neither Caddy or Ford. Buick by nature.
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Old 04-02-14, 06:08 AM   #8
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Ford roofs aren't too good.
Ford is also experimenting with another option for the 2015 model year for F-150s and up. It is a heated tailgate, for when you have to push it home in winter.
LOL...wish I had a tenner in my wallet for each make of car I've heard that one attributed to over the years. Lada or Skoda were the most popular recipients in the UK
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Lada or Skoda were the most popular recipients in the UK
Škodas improved since they started cooperating with Volkswagen. Or were they bought by VW, too lazy to go and check it.

They say the quality of a German car at half the price
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Škodas improved since they started cooperating with Volkswagen. Or were they bought by VW, too lazy to go and check it.

They say the quality of a German car at half the price
Yes, they have certainly improved a great deal over the past five or so years
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They say the quality of a German car at half the price
Good cars.
A little bit boring but they get better at that too.
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GM ad was douchey... "We're the only ones going back". Oh really? In what? The fireball that erupts when your ignition key tries to kill me?
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The Cadillac ad was the sum of every stereotype we Europeans have about the Americans. Only the lead character was about 100kg short

loved the Ford's were not egoists like the rest of the world thinks approach
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