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Ford Recalls 655,000 F-150 Pickups To Fix Hose Problem

No, not that kind of Toby Keith hose problem — the only way to fix that problem is with Viagra. And really, that doesn't fix it, it just makes the problem a bit more hard. No, what we're really talking about is Ford recalling more than 655,000 Ford F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT pickup trucks to fix some bad brake hoses in... More »

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Toby Keith Has An Amerigasm For The 2009 Ford F-150

Toby Keith, the Ford Truck Man, he of the Bold Toby Keith Emissions Boot-in-Ass Emissions was on hand to introduce the new 2009 Ford F-150 pickup truck. It's a fantastic Amerigasm of our country-ism. No talk of EcoBoost or hybrid powertrains here. Later, basically everyone with a camera stormed Keith and put a camera in his face. Which was probably worth the money they paid him. USA! USA! USA!

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Mike Rowe Sold Purses Before He Sold Ford F-150 Trucks

Who would have thought the man who shills for the F-150 and doer of other "Dirty Jobs" used to sell purses on QVC? Well, at least Mike Rowe's "relatively secure in his masculinity." We wonder if Toby Keith thinks he's "relatively" secure as well? Although Rowe may have something over Keith due to his love of cartoon women. [Hat tip to Eric] More »

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The FordLink Mobile Office: An Amerigasm Of Computing For The Ford Truck Man

Apparently there's a part of the Toby Keith "Ford truck man" song we must have missed. It's a part of the song that must not have reached the commercials, where Keith pulls out a pocket protector and a tablet PC — and then says
"If you're the type of man who needs to surf the web and check your e-mail on the go, and do it from a ruggedized tablet platform running off of an AMD Geode LX 800 chipset, then you're probably a Ford truck man."
Keith must have said it — because with FoMoCo's new FordLink Mobile Office system, they've gone and done just that — come up with a way to integarate a tablet PC built by Azentek into your Ford truck — acting as the trucks GPS unit, satellite radio system, and surfer of Pr0n. FoMoCo claims it's a system designed for folks who use their truck as their office and want a simplified dealer-installed way to make sure their road office has the same amenities as their real office — namely a computer. We had the opportunity to do a test-run with the system, available only for FoMoCo's Super-Duty trucks, at the automaker's SEMA pre-show blowout two weeks ago, and the video above's the result. Also check out the gallery below and the full specs on the unit below the jump. More »

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Idolator Wants Its Own Ford-Flavored Toby Keith Amerigasm

Our brother/sister site obsessed with music, we are flattered to learn, was so tickled by the phraseology we used to explain an orgasmic display of American patriotism — such as that displayed in the new Toby Keith Ford truck ads or the Mellencamp-soundtracked Chevy Silverado ads — they now want nothing more than to experience a Toby Keith-flavored "amerigasm" of their own. They're issuing a call to arms — a plea of help — an ecstasy-filled scream — to all of America's red-blooded and patriotic journalists to help them in their quest to find:
"The first person to write a professional review or article mentioning Keith's "Amerigasmic" ways will not only get our undying admiration, but they'll also get their work posted and praised on Idolator."
All we've got to say is now that Toby's stickied us with his amerigasm, we're looking forward to watching our brother/sister-site get their own love-shower. More »

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Toby Keith Loves Us Like He Loves The Hot, Sweaty And Shirtless Working Man

It would seem our review of Toby Keith's most recent amerigasm over the new 2007 Ford F-series trucks did not go unnoticed by the country crooner. In fact — he loves it so much he's gone and had it inserted in a place of honor in a very special location — the top of his website. Yes, that's right — Toby Keith appears to have taken our post like a man, eschewing the obvious irony, and even seems to want to wish us well, showering us with all sorts of traffic spewing from the link-love from atop his manly wood-paneled website. Yes, we've never felt so happy having a man like Toby Keith reaching out and touching us over the internet — at least not since that one time a guy from Florida was IM'ing us after we interned in DC. More »

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One Of These Things Does Not Belong: God Blessed Texas With The 2008 Ford F-Series Super Duty

Things supposedly run a bit different in Texas than they do in the rest of the country. For the most part, from what we hear, things are bigger, longer and a whole lot more god-fearing down there. We guess since stuff's so big, long and holy — it'd make sense for the automakers to have spent the end of the last month down there showing off their new hotness in trucks at the "nations biggest state fair." Although we weren't going to be providing coverage of the circle jerk that is the Texas State Fair, today we came across a picture just begging for us to show ya. Above, you'll see the new 2008 Ford F-450 Super Duty with FoMoCo's president for the Americas Ennis Del Mar Mark Fields and country crooner Jack Twist Toby Keith. So, we guess, after you see the pic above and the rest of the pageantry in the gallery, you've probably got the same question we've got: More »

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Ad Watch: Toby Keith Plays With His Guitar And Spews Forth An Amerigasm Of Song About Ford Trucks

FoMoCo must think it can't match Chevrolet in American flags, but might be able to out blue-collar it. In the latest ads for the F-150 and Super Duty trucks — part of a "Ford Truck Month" zero- and low-percent financing on 2006 and 2007 models campaign — country crooner Toby Keith shows up in what might as well be a solo project by the Construction Worker from the Village People, crouching atop industrial machinery with his massive, throbbing Ford guitar jutting forth menacingly, hands strumming his magic, with what we're sure are countless workmen in tight-fitting jeans but sans shirts, toiling beneath him. Speaking of beneath — we've got another commercial, the lyrics to Keith's custom-written ditty and the press release from Ford below the jump. More »

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Ad Watch: If You're Not Toby Keith In A Ford Truck, You're Just A "Good Size"

Toby Keith's still a Ford Truck man. Apparently that's all he drives; he's got no boundaries and won't compromise (ka-ching). Although if Bob Seger's career is any indication of what'll happen once a former truck ad-man loses favor with the automaker, he'll be driving a Porsche and a Nissan pickup in no time. But for now, Keith is FoMoCo's big-time big truck man — and he's still the star in the most recent of a set of six new FoMoCo commercials for 2007 Ford F-150 and Super Duty trucks. This first spot, titled "2nd Best," shows off the '07 trucks' newest capability — winning local dick-waving contests by settling the score between a Dodge and a Chevy (driven by country-dumb caricatures of the competitors' advert characters, mind you) in pure tractor-pull fashion. Maybe Ford should have tossed a third competitor into the mix (maybe from the land of the rising sun) to see how far Keith would get, but we won't be seeing another such vehicular johnson until next year at the earliest. Speaking of size, we've no clue the size of the campaign in dollars, but we're assuming it was J. Walter Thompson that produced the ad — but there's nothing to tell us that in the detail-light press release on the campaign from August, posted after the jump. More »