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    Skoda Yeti Adverts Mix Cars, Mixed Drinks

    "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"

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    Image of bzr bzr
    10/13/09

    In reply to Skoda Yeti Adverts Mix Cars, Mixed Drinks
    James May and Jeremy Clarkson approved.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    10/13/09

    In reply to Skoda Yeti Adverts Mix Cars, Mixed Drinks
    Where'd they get "run over"? The car is stopped. Drinking wildlife, and a Czech crossover, is what I get.
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    Image of TimTim TimTim
    10/13/09

    In reply to Skoda Yeti Adverts Mix Cars, Mixed Drinks
    I don't think of college binge drinking parties when I think of martinis. I think of James Bond and sophisticated, high-class, well-to-do style.

    These ads are a creative and tastefully presented play on the Yeti name which propose an air of sophistication. The rugged wilderness scenes suggest that the Yeti lives up to its namesake. Those scenes are contained within martini glasses with garnish, suggesting not only that this Skoda is sophisticated but that it lives in a world embodied by sophistication. Two universes living in peaceful elegant harmony. The perfect synthesis of the rugged outdoors with a black-tie social.

    Drinking, driving, and running down wildlife... no. The embodiment of high class living indoors and out... absolutely.

    That said, maybe if Animal New York took the misleading advertising angle they'd have better luck.
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    Image of McHoon McHoon
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    I'm sure the guy meant well, but that thing looks like it was pieced together from parts left over from an old Farmall tractor and hay baler.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment McHoon was starred McHoon was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    @McHoon: I believe you have just insulted hay balers everywhere. Farmalls are used to the abuse.
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    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    When Felipe Massa gets back, show him this thing and tell him the rules have changed once again and Ferrari has to meet a much stricter budget.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was starred joneez wants the clunkers he paid for was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    @joneez helped you buy a new car: Right. Next time he'd better duck. Slacker.
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    Image of MZЯ MZЯ
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    My eyes need a Tetanus shot.
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    Image of superbadd75, now I remember why I left... superbadd75, now I remember why I left...
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    Why the spoilers? With all that steel, this thing's gotta weigh more than enough to keep it planted all the way up to its 50 mph top speed.
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment Edited by superbadd75, now I remember why I left... at 08/10/09 5:41 PM superbadd75, now I remember why I left... was starred superbadd75, now I remember why I left... was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    This car easily has ten times the low-carbon steel of any F1 car, for the weight savings, so you're getting a lot of value for the money.

    Also, this fellow is making real advances in the field of suspension-compliance-through-chassis-flex, that has not been seen for decades.

    Too bad the rear spoiler is too wide. Otherwise he could have entered it next year. I hear there's an open slot.
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    #2: Adjusting the front-end alignment.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    At last, the Chinese brothers in downtown szechuan have a competitor in the F -1 Series.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    If it mowed the lawn, I'd buy one.
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment bmoreDLJ was starred bmoreDLJ was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    If I wanted to Get The Feeling, I'd buy an '80s Corolla for the same price.
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    Image of BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    You know what? I was going to completely 'dis this thing because of its tetanus inducing bodywork and used-farm machinery color scheme but then it occurred to me - until I build something cooler and better, I really can't complain. All the more power to the guy who built it. Sure it might not be a basement lambo or a Chinese pseudo- F1 car, but at least the guy who built actually did something.
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    Al Navarro promoted this comment BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom was starred BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom was unstarred
    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    I wonder what else this person could have done with their time/energy rather than build this thing?
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    08/10/09

    @Bring back the Jalopnik9: I try to look at it from another perspective: What truly terrible and destructive thing might this person have done if not wasting time building this custom racing car? I'll take this car and its harmlessness to the general population over a pipe bomb hobby or a meth lab.
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    08/10/09

    @tempesjo: Like Bacon Sandwich above, I didn't want to dis it because I respect that fact that a guy had a dream and he built it. Sure, it's rough, (and probably almost undriveable) but at least he was doing something productive rather than playing video games, dragoning random people's cars, or surfing the web while "working"...
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was starred SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) was unstarred
    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    08/10/09

    @Bring back the Jalopnik9: You know, I can't argue with that. If my son and I put something together like that someday, I'm sure I'd be proud of it, no matter what anyone else thought. Although I hope I have the presence of mind to forbid my son from driving it.
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    08/10/09

    In reply to "Experience The Fantastic Feeling of Driving a Race Car!"
    You know it's funny, you never see a 'murican build a backyard NASCAR. You think you would cause they all look the same, heck go to enough races you'd have enough metal off of crashed cars to make an original one.
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    discontinuuity is missing Uncle Pete, the Auto Insider, and the Banhammered Nine promoted this comment PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was starred PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was unstarred
    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    08/10/09


    @PowerTryp: True, but we do have the next worse thing. [www.waasadata.com]
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    Image of discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice
    08/10/09

    @PowerTryp: People do make their own NASCARs in their backyards. They're called Dirt Modified cars.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/10/09

    @PowerTryp: Clearly you have never been to Tennessee, Kentucky, or West Virginia. People there have been known to take 70s and 80s hunks of junk and turn them into surprisingly cool replicas of their old NASCAR iterations.
    On a side note, isn't this Krewson first day as an official, full-time Jalop?
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