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The Teutuls Like The New Challenger, A Bag Full Of Money Or Possibly Both

Paul, Sr. and Paul, Jr., Teutul, of Orange County Choppers and American Chopper fame, were around to introduce the new Challenger. As far as celeb/car introduction pairings go, this one was mostly inoffensive and made some sort of sense as this car will be popular with those buying a third car as a way to blow some disposable income, which are the same people that buy custom bikes. Unfortunately, it lacked the uncomfortable sexuality of old people and Amerigasm potential of previous introductions.


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10:00 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Matt Hardigree
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  • Slow day today?

  • At first glance, I thought the white-moustachioed guy was a demented Dieter Zetsche.

  • I thought their introduction was pretty flippin' awkward. The problem is that the Dr. Z and Kim Cattrall thing set such a high standard for awkwardness, everything looks like The Merve Griffin Show in comparison.

  • Good lord, he's had his sideburns transplanted to his mouth.

  • *cough* Red neck *cough*

  • Image of danio3834 danio3834 at 10:40 AM on 02/11/08 *

    @FLB: When they said they were doing the introduction and mentioned a moustached special guess, I immediately thought it had to be Dr. Z.

    I miss those ads

  • Kinda of shows the desired intellectual level of buyers for this POS eh?
    These mo's make dumbass choppers on a dumbass TV show. Can someone please educate me on why they have any importance on a new CAR intro?


  • Really slow day in the land of Jalops.

  • Image of Bentos, Der Frischmacher! Bentos, Der Frischmacher! at 10:48 AM on 02/11/08 *

    So I guess we're getting a "Challenger" Chopper now??? Didn't Paul Jr. used to own a Prowler??? Kinda shows you their taste in cars

  • ha ha thy funny thing is real people hate the Tuetuls, but "suits" love them, because they represent something the suits will never be, which is "real". However like them or not, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

  • Their only saving grace is that they apparently do alot for charity...I still can't help but despise them..."Shut up! You shut up! Mongo break door now!"

  • Hey, just be glad the didn´t ask the remaining "Dukes Of Hazzard" cast to be there!

  • The only good part of that show was Vinny. Now that hes gone, who gives a rats a$$ about the TURDuls.

  • The Teutuls run a screwdriver shop. They don't build choppers, they perform final assembly of kit bikes.

  • These guys push incestuous homoeroticism off the chart.

  • Image of UDMan UDMan at 12:03 PM on 02/11/08 *

    So are you guys going to revolt again if there is a less than satisfactory Comment of the Day? Since it seems to be a slow news day, the chances of a lame COTD seems plausible. Hopefully you show them the same love that was bestowed upon, well almost anyone else.

  • What the do these guys know about cars? They don't even know how a motorcycle is supposed to look. Or work.

  • Those two will endorse anything for the right $. Next we will see Paul Sr. pushing Midol :-)
    Those boys are getting a bit overexposed. Their manager needs to pull them from the limelight for some time before they run out of their 15 minutes prematurely.

  • Image of 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ at 12:18 PM on 02/11/08 *

    @UDMAN: COTD!

  • Image of 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ at 12:21 PM on 02/11/08 *

    I heard Mikey was supposed to be working on the floor cleaning finger prints from their other display cars, but nobody was leaving any.

  • At least they didn´t use the remaining "Dukes Of Hazzard" cast.

  • People are put off by the Teutuls because they are New Yorkers. It embarrasses them because they are New Yorkers that act like caricatures of whitetrash, hillbilly, rednecks. Their crass behavior is an image that is incomprehensible to media fed Americans and they have trouble handling it. If they were Billy Bob, Junior and Bubba Tuttle from Tennessee or Alabama, people wouldn't give it a second thought.

  • @AndyDuncan: They run a brand shop.

    I have a lot of respect for what the Teutuls have done. They never excelled at design or fabrication, but they've managed to build their products and likenesses into a very valuable brand. Considering the number of years the show has been on the air, it's amazing their visibility is still so high.

    Whoever came up with the idea of selling the bikes and a number of shows to a client as a package is a marketing genius. The Teutuls and Discovery get plot devices for the show (We took a trip to Auburn Hills...) and Chryslerberus gets three 30-minute infomercials and a couple of public appearances for what is probably not a lot of money. And it's still not bad television!

  • Image of 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ at 01:39 PM on 02/11/08 *

    @smokeydog001: These guys have had a good run, but I think the family feud shtick has fizzled out. It even got too tiring for someone as simple as me to watch, I'm only just learning that Vinnie and that Cody kid jumped ship late last year. One has to wonder why...

  • @groovyipo: I thought their 15 minutes was up in 2005. Thats about the last time I wasted my time watching their show.

  • @lobo8310:
    I will accpet that. ;-)


  • @crazygutgut: They are "real" in quotes, which is to say, not real at all. Their show has never been anything other than a pointless cross-marketing corporatist branding exercise. They should have to pay people to watch it. The whole thing is a Potemkin village- I'm sure when the cameras get switched off, a crew of actual workers comes in to do whatever minimal work needs to be done, and all the "arguments" and "feuding" cease.

    However, I have to give them credit for fleecing dumb companies for massive amounts of money in exchange for the dubious and virtually worthless exposure they deliver. Congratulations Dodge, you just gave these guys a couple million bucks and did not sell a single extra car as a result.

  • Image of Novaload Novaload at 02:41 PM on 02/11/08 *

    The ONLY way to introduce the Challenger would be with the sinister but clean cut Challenger driver in Bullit--complete with driving gloves and specs. He would offer to take you outside, with whatever POS you brought, and let you do a run for your life--not pinks, your life--against him and the Challenger.

  • Image of 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ 2 GIЯLS 1 POLAЯ at 02:45 PM on 02/11/08 *

    @Novaload: Psst, Dude, I won't tell anybody else, but I think you meant the Charger from Bullitt...

  • These two are smarter that the guys running Chrysler.

    They have built a brand and have a loyal following.
    Chrysler wishes they could do the same.

  • It has always seemed odd that the son would settle for such a low percentage of the business that he basically created starting with the Spiderman bike for Wyclef Jean.
    Anything less than 50/50 seems dumb.

    I guess there are all different varieties of dumb rednecks out there. The father is the most annoying.

    @AndyDuncan: They Do seem more like Assemblers than anything else. Their painter, "Nub" should probably own at least 30% of the business as it seems mostly his work that makes the bikes good.

  • i dunno about you guys, but i want to see the black challenger.

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