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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I heart Driving German Cars.
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    Image of jaymcminn jaymcminn
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The "Dah, dah, dah" ad didn't make the cut? Really? THe "Kleine GTI" ad and the '71 Karmann Ghia ad were brilliant, however.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @jaymcminn: Yeah, that one's a classic.
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    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I appreciate that VW's ad money is the lion's share of the site's revenue stream, but aren't any of you in management worried about the credibility of a car site that doesn't acknowledge, at least once in a while, that the vast majority of VW's are utter pieces of overpriced crap driven by Apple Store shoppers who care more about a secret paint color you can only get on the internet than they do about driving dynamics or reliability?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/06/09

    @snapoversteer: As long as I can keep lighting my cigars with Wolfsburg-supplied Benjamins, you won't hear a single bad word about any VW product from me! Same goes for Ssangyong!
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    07/06/09

    @Murilee Martin: Nice. I didn't mean for my V-dub rant to accidentally splash bile on your entertaining ad retrospective. Your weekend postings are excellent.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/07/09

    @snapoversteer: No problem, just wanted to make it clear that we don't ever get any editorial pressure to say good or bad things about companies that do or don't advertise on our site.


    That said, if VW wants to send me a suitcase packed with cash, I'm all for it!

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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The British series "If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen" had little stories about lifes vicissitudes, in which the punchline was the protagonist turning the key in their Golf.


    I'll always remember the morning after the casino guy, and the unfaithful husband woman.


    Oh, and the one where the couple are in the car for hundreds of miles, and everything is perfect except for this continula tiny squeak. Despite endless searching, they can't find the source. Eventually they pull into a tiny service station in the desert, and the gnarly old proprietor leans into the car, looks around, and puts a drop of oil on the womans pendant earrings.

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    Image of the_gank the_gank
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    How about the GTI vs Prius "how does your Prius sound commercial?


    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :D

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @the_gank: It's actually hawking the Jetta TDI, but yeah, it's pretty good.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    You missed the "1949 Auto Show" ad from 1969:


    Absolute classic.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @tonyola: Genius ad. I wonder if, years from now, Hyundai or Kia might make a similar one costarring Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu and whoever else croaks before the end of the Carpocalypse.
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    Image of PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287 PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I still can't find a digital copy of the ad, but I remember it from my youth (early 90s I guess) It was a VW herder that had a farm with all of these VWs on it driving around. The ad ends with the farmer stating "You can tell by the gleam in the daytime running lights, these are happy cars!"


    It's a line that has stuck with me ever since.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/05/09

    @PotbellyJoe: Somewhere a marketing man just got his wings.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/15/09

    In reply to The United States Map Of Higher Gas Prices
    I still love New Hampshire.
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    06/15/09

    In reply to The United States Map Of Higher Gas Prices
    Why is gas in central Washington, where there is no emissions testing more than in King County?
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    06/15/09

    In reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
    As if his words are more bizar than the words pronounced by the ex GM managers...
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    Image of Iron-Balls Minardi Iron-Balls Minardi
    06/15/09

    @sos10: The worst GM manager ever has put more rubber on the road than Mr. Musk.
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    06/15/09

    @Iron-Balls McGinty: You got that wrong, the worst GM manager lost way more money and diminished car sales more than mr. Musk.
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    Image of mdensch mdensch
    06/15/09

    In reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
    So if he wants to buy a used car factory, why doesn't he just go do it. There are plenty of them for sale. What's stopping him??
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    06/15/09

    @mdensch: Capital.


    Most folks that have the capital probably see him for the shyster he is, but who knows maybe he'll get some bailout cash somehow.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    06/15/09

    @Flathead Smith: I don't think he's a shyster in the "I'm here to dupe you and take your money" kind of way.


    It think he's really dedicated to making this work...but like the article jokingly points out, "leaves the details to others".

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    06/15/09

    @mdensch: There is no shortage of idle auto plants. I can point a few of them out on my way home tonight...
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    Image of Armand Armand
    06/15/09

    @Mad_Science: He's just a less-funny version of Michael Scott.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    06/15/09

    In reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
    I hate it when people operate under the belief that The Clever Idea or the Vision is the most important part. It's the execution that matters.


    For every Clever Idea that makes it, there are countless others dead on the side of the road due to failed execution.


    Meanwhile, tons of businesses chug along, happy and profitable because they perfectly execute unglamorous products or services.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/15/09

    @Mad_Science: And thus Toyota was born.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    06/15/09

    @pauljones: And survives while other perish.


    Execution and innovation aren't mutually exclusive, but it must be recognized that one gates the other. Start with something easy, get profitable, then worry about shifting paradigms.


    (Pardon my rant, I currently toil as an engineer in a company with a CEO who fancies himself a visionary, but is completely incompetent when it comes to actually running a company).

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    Image of Iron-Balls Minardi Iron-Balls Minardi
    06/15/09

    @Mad_Science: Well said.
    Of course this is a country that convinces every child that they are a special little flower just by the nature of glory of who they are; so I just see more of his type coming.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    06/15/09

    @Iron-Balls McGinty: You realize he wasn't raised here, right?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/15/09

    @Mad_Science: I blame Canada and South Africa.
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    06/15/09

    @Mad_Science: Is Michael Scott your CEO?
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    06/15/09

    In reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
    From Wikipedia: Musk is the name originally given to a substance with a penetrating odor obtained from a gland of the male musk deer, which is situated between its stomach and genitals.


    You sir, were named after the stink of an ungulate's happy trail.

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    Image of Bullitt417 Bullitt417
    06/15/09

    In reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
    Someone please slap this man back to reality. How can you buy a car plant with now money?
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    06/15/09

    @Bullitt417: Is "now money" a typo or are you concerned by inflation?
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/15/09

    @Bullitt417: Apparently there is a long line, and since you didn't know about it, you'll probably end up being somewhere near the back.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    06/15/09

    In reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
    CAPTION CONTEST:
    "I think I look like Obama when I stand like this."
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    06/15/09

    @SirNotAppearing: "If I point my chin this way, it gives a softer hue to my eyes."
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