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Featured 2016 Chevy Volt Attack Ads target LEAF, Prius!

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Sergiospl, Oct 1, 2015.

  1. frodoz737

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    Still a plug-in hybrid.
     
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    The cleanest car on the road is the BMW i3 which is an electric.
    If I add the range extending engine (for trips over 100 miles) does that make it any less useful as an EV? No. (Ditto the Volt.)
     
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    gm seems to have politicians disease. the need to denigrate the competition, to make their own attributes more attractive. it really isn't necessary.
     
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    I certainly agree that GM should be stressing there vehicles. However, much of the Prius advertising suffers from the disease that Prius drivers are hippies.
     
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    why do you find it necessary to criticize toyota to defend chevy?
     
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    I'm criticizing the advertising approach for both. I'm not criticizing the vehicles or the corporations.
     
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    right, but your doing just what chevy does. denigrating prius advertising doesn't make volt ads look better.
     
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    So much for humor. The comment was a light hearted jab at all auto advertising, nothing more.
     
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    oh, sorry, i'm a little slow on the uptake.:oops:
     
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    i remember that one, silly. perhaps it's not possible to make a good alt fuel vehicle commercial. oh wait, tesla.
     
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    It's possible if they would target normal folks instead of who they target now. The Gen I market is not the current market.
     
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    for a non plug in, advertising should be a no brainer. it's a car, it gets 50 mpg, fill it with gas and go. drive one and compare to whatever else you're interested in.

    stop trying to attract tree huggers, we've run out of trees.
     
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    that giant Toyota raggedy Ann made of humans ... I still have nightmares - waking me up to cold sweats .... it grabs me by my throat ..... and shoves a 10,000psi hydrogen pipe up my bung ...

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    I think the a$$face commercial really started out as a joke by someone just screwing around. A manager walked by, saw it and said it was great and to run with it. The guy that dreamt it up didn't want to say anything, so off it went.
     
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    Whenever I watch US politicians interacting, discussing stuff, I'm pretty much gobsmacked by the cordiality and cooperation: by comparison, our Canadian politicians come off as childish monomaniacs.

    Well, except for George Bush junior. :ROFLMAO:
     
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    dbcassidy Toyota Hybrid Nation, 8 Million Strong

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    Prius = #1

    Volt = who the heck knows. Don't ask Chevy, they are completely clueless.

    DBCasidy
     
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    Just for grins, cool video concept for a plug-in ad. tiny waterfall charges car, then attempted fun to drive video. No words. No talk about zev or technology (although showed the tech).
    Tesla Model S Charged By A Waterfall - Video

    Nisan and gm could learn a bit from these fan tesla videos
     
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    I actually have both a Prius V and the Chevy Volt. Both are different animals, but for our family setup, it works great! For my 20 mile round trip to work, i use 0 gas. Heck, i haven't put gas in the volt in over 1 month, plus the 273 lb tq on the volt make it a blast to drive! The Prius V is a hauler with good mileage, but not as fun as the volt!
     
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  20. 3PriusMike

    3PriusMike Prius owner since 2000, Tesla M3 2018

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    The failure of the ad is that there are plenty of example of "newer" technology that consumers declared wasn't "better." I'll start this list, add your own if you want:

    - Quadraphonic sound (~1970)
    - DVD-Audio discs (~1999)
    - Apple Newton (~1994)
    - Stereo 3D TV (2011)
    - 3D movies with anaglyph (red & cyan) glasses (1950s?)
    - DIVX (not the current video codec, the rental DVD format from Circuit City) (~1998)
    - Bubble memory (~1980)
    - Living room PC, such as Intel Viiv, Google TV, Yahoo TV (~2006-2010)
    - Google Glass (2012)
    - Segway (~2002)
    There are plenty more... the Dvorak keyboard, 2 or every 3 versions on Microsoft Windows, and Hydrogen airships (and probably hydrogen fuel cell cars...but for different reasons)

    I'm not counting things like Sony Betamax vs VHS and HD-DVD vs Blu-ray (those were just format wars on which option to choose)