Anti-American car billboard?
Posted Jun 14th 2006 12:07PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Outdoor
Billboardom has this advertisement for Smart car which reads:
- German engineering
- Swiss innovation
- American nothing
That's actually pretty funny, but of course, a lot of people are pointing out that the car is made by DaimlerChrysler, and that "Chrysler" is very much American. Also, there's the fact that it's on a Clear Channel billboard, though that has more to do with the actual physical billboard itself than the ad that's on it, so whatever. There's an interesting debate going on about the ad here.
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1. We also posted on this, and a rep from DaimlerChrysler South Africa sent us a letter with their position behind the ad:
http://www.brandflakesforbreakfast.com/2006/05/american-nothing.html
Posted at 1:15PM on Jun 14th 2006 by darryl