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A pair of University of Houston students are now the proud owners of a matching set of 2009 Chevy Aveo5 s after their conversation in the back of an Aveo5 cab was voted most popular in a GM-sponsored contest called "Chevy Aveo Livin' Large." The conversation itself was the kind of sarcastic slacker rambling about the latest Batman movie, elections and fishing college kids these days seem to be known for. At one point, one pretends to be voting for John McCain before admitting, no, he's actually voting for Obama. It isn't funny. But how did they win? The contest is based on "votes" and U of H students appear to have gamed the voting a bit, much to the displeasure of another U of H Cougar: hey the video that makes it to top 6 from U of H is going to be based on VOTES not views anymore...yalls video isn't that great...lets rep U of H and get a CRIZZZUNK video there!!! (read the rules and regulations...it's all in there) We're not surprised the conversation...
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newVideoPlayer("CitroenAveoTransformer_gawker.flv", 494, 350,""); Whether it's a C4 on top of a parking garage , the same C4 showing off a penchant for ice-skating or a Chinese man just looking to score with the ladies , Citroens like to transform. In fact, so much so they've already been made fun of once before in a faux ad for the 2CV . But now another automaker's getting into the act in a new ad from the brand all about the 'merican revolution in a commercial for the new Kalos-replacing five-door hatchback Aveo econo-box . That's right, Chevy — the very last brand you'd ever expect to be knocking a badge for advertising their love of cars that transform into robots. We're guessing someone at Chevy's ad agency may have forgotten Chevys like to transform too — heck, they even have a toy version of the Aveo named " Swerve ." Talk about the heights of hypocrisy. Unless Chevy's just making fun of Citroens for dancing...
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newVideoPlayer("chevy-volt-dog.flv", 463, 387,""); Dear GM, While you hit the right spot for some people, the majority of your target audience in fact doesn't like to get their toes licked by dogs. I often find myself thinking about how this ad does not properly convey the message you are trying to send with the Chevy Volt . The Volt is supposed to be the biggest and most badass futuristic vehicle ever. Like io9 futuristic. And here you are trying to sell the public on the vehicle with an individual partaking in a display of foot-fetish bestiality. I have attached the vcard for a friend of mine who just started up a advertising business. I am more than sure that his experience will be very beneficial for you. Sincerely, Traumatized in Texas
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newVideoPlayer("backupforward_jalopnik.flv", 463, 387,""); Now that it's so cheap and easy to create and share videos, local car dealerships are flooding web2.0 video applications with their own brand of boring, homemade advertisements. In our search for topical video content we come across hundreds a day. So it says something that this ad from a Chevy dealership in North Carolina caught our attention. The woman in the ad emotes with the kind of energy reserved for community theatre in Wyoming and the script was likely written by someone taking a break from developing Jeep slogans . "Back up, pull forward, back up, pull forward. AHHHHHH!"
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Now that pricing for the new Malibu is out, we've just received a missive from the General telling us the 'merican revolution's got a marketing campaign in a pot and cooking for the newly redesigned 2008 Chevy Malibu . The campaign is supposedly going to "prove the Malibu competes with" the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. How's it going to prove that? We've no idea -- we haven't seen the creative yet. But we do know it'll supposedly feature the "biggest one-day digital takeover ever by a marketer...with "an unprecedented one-day digital takeover of the leading online portals and automotive, sports and lifestyle Web sites" We'll ignore the whole redundancy of making clear "Web sites" are "digital" and "online" as we wonder whether we'll be considered "leading" enough to get a blast of the 'bu to the face. Since our well-paid ad sales team only talks to us when we go to the bar and we beg them to buy us drinks we guess we'll just have to wait and see with all of you. Full release on the...
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newVideoPlayer("ChevyVoltHums_gawker.flv", 475, 376); So there's now a commercial for the Chevy Volt concept car -- which is kind of weird because they're not actually selling a Volt yet, but whatever. In the commercial you've got a line of kids with the sides of their faces planted on the long hard slab of metal that's the hood of the Chevy Volt. It's then that we find out the Volt hums. We're not sure why it hums, especially because we didn't know it even had batteries for an e-flexible engine to feed, but again, whatever. The thing that's disconcerting to us is the fact that Chevy lets an adult male speak to children about humming of any sort. That's just weird.
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