Brian normally does the Scrapple blog item, but I’ve really been looking forward to doing it this week, so I hope you like it. As usual I’m going to be fairly opinionated, and I really hope that some of the targets of my opinions have the stones to comment. Especially the bicycle people. This week’s scrapple covers umbrella drink ingredients, the best thing since rental cars, JLo, flag waivers, and my favorite, the whiney bitch bike riders who don’t like GM anymore.
Ford and Scotts Miracle-Gro are researching the use of coconut fiber reinforcement for molded plastic automobile parts.
Wow, where can’t you go with this one. I mean the “manure” jokes alone could take up a page. How about the Tropics, Castaway, Pina Colada, and Lost Edition Ford Focus “with Coconut Technology”. Will each one come with it’s own Ford Logo Umbrella for your drink?The fact that they are testing a renewable waste product to make their crap plastic interiors better is a good thing, but the never ending eco bullshit media spin on everything is getting old. When they come out with this we’ll test it. Be warned, we’ll have to spill some gas on the ground just to make up for the good we are doing while driving it.
GM Officially signs up with RelayRides Car Sharing Program
Relay Rides is a disaster waiting to happen, and we wish we could help them realize it. Located in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, CA, it appears the only place to rent a car from is Cambridge at this point. The great thing about this is that it is renting a car, only by the hour. So anything more than a few hours and you could have done it cheaper through National. Of course, the added benefit with Relay Rides is that they give you a gas card, you don’t pay for, to use with the car you rent…or for your buddy who pulls up next to you at the pump after you got a $10 per hour rental for ONE HOUR. Oh, and their insurance policy makes it so that I can rent a car with no insurance of my own and either pay a $500 deductible or sign up for the year and pay $75 ahead of time and their is no deductible. Doesn’t that sound like I can rent a car for one hour and do ANYTHING I want to it if I pay $75 up front? Someone is going to do what I’m thinking and they aren’t going to like it. But I would.
JLo does a Fiat 500 commercial
Do any of us care? Is she drifting the thing? Doing burnouts? Jumping it? Donuts? Anything? Is she naked? Does anyone care if she was naked? Why is this big news? I don’t get it. Woo hoo. And who was the dumb ass who thought a white Fiat 500 was the one to use in a high profile commercial? Since red is the official color of everything cool that comes from Italy, they choked. But it isn’t surprising.
Ford and Chrysler are being sued by the Made in the USA Foundation for false advertising.
I would love to believe commercials, and wish with all my heart that every Mopar, Ford, or GM vehicle was manufactured and built right here in the good old U.S.A. With that said, I understand where the flag waivers are coming from when Chrysler’s new Imported from Detroit ad shows a Chrysler 300 which is built in Canada. I understand, but think they should get over it. I don’t believe Chrysler any more than I believe those stupid Honda commercials showing Accord’s being built in the USA. It is still an Accord. Made is the USA…sorta. That should be their slogan.
General Motors Apologized to the bike rider people for a college newspaper ad they say bashes on biking.
First let me say that this is my favorite thing on Scrapple this week, and I hope some cycling dude gets pissed at us. The League of American Bicyclists called GM’s ad “one of the most ill-conceived car ad campaigns of all time.”, while other cyclist groups are griping as well. Who the hell are they kidding? The ad, which is show below, shows a hot co-ed smirking at the dude on his bicycle. Hot chick or not, there isn’t a girl, outside of Berkeley, that thinks it is cool for you to roll up on your ten-speed to pick her up for a date. That doesn’t mean their is anything wrong with riding your bike for fun, or to go back and forth to school or work. Knock yourself out. But unless you are 12 you want a car to go along with that bike. So this is what I say to the bitchy bike people who made GM apologize for making it sounds like it sucks to be the guy on the bike.
Get over it you psycho douchebags. Seriously? What kind of lobbying group are you? The ad was creative, and I think General Motors should leave them running. There is nothing wrong with riding a bike. It’s fun. It can be a great mode of transportation depending on your geographic location, climate, etc, but unless you are Lance Armstrong no chick wants you picking her up on a fucking Schwinn. That was the point. Be cool, buy a new car. Who doesn’t think it’s cool to get a new car? I mean I’m the guy that doesn’t own anything newer than 1972 (take that earth cookie bike rider guy), but I would be happy as a pig in shit to be able to afford a new ZL1 Convertible. (That’s a Camaro earth cookie biker guy.)
What I find funny is that if they ran an ad saying that cars suck and it is bad to drive one, oh wait the earth cookies already do that, and GM bitched, the whole world would be all pissed at GM for being butt hurt for no reason.
I would love to run into one of these folks in a bar after about 4 drinks. As Bret Voelkel from Ridetech once said in reference to my mouth, as a prelude to a tongue lashing someone was asking for, “It is a finely honed, smartly tuned, and well exercised verbal flleting machine.”
What do you think boys and girls? Want to see Scrapple in Video format in the future? How about some Chadmouths? Let us know and we’ll make it happen.
Well as confirmed a GearHead as I may be , let just say ;
” Real Men Don’t Need Engines ”
…..or Viagra or etc etc etc
Like i said I’m a REAL GearHead e.g. If its got gears I probably love it .
But any woss can push on a gas pedal or twist a throttle . It takes a REAL MAN though to pedal a Bicycle .
So GM ! Guess what finger I’m hiding behind my hand for that stupid Ad ?
“The fact that they are testing a renewable waste product to make their crap plastic interiors better is a good thing”
DUDE . . . have you looked at a GM or Chrysler interior lately? That’s where the “crap plastic interiors” are, not Ford.
“And who was the dumb ass who thought a white Fiat 500 was the one to use in a high profile commercial? Since red is the official color of everything cool that comes from Italy, they choked. But it isn’t surprising”
But WHITE is smokin’ hot as a new car color right now . . . red . . . not so much.
(“20% of North America’s car buyers drove off in white vehicles this year. Black and silver were also popular–17% of buyers preferred these shades. Blue ranked fourth (13%) and gray rounded out the top five (12%).”)
Besides, white makes that enclosed Hoveround look a tad bigger.
Coconut plastic parts? Why not plastic from hemp? Oh yeah, the oil companies don’t want the world to know how much crap you can make from hemp, from fuel to sweaters. And, the cops can’t tell marijuana from hemp without a portable chemistry set.
I got an idea. Why not make plastic parts recycled from all the water bottles that those tree hugging, bicycle riding douche bags use because they think tap water from a bottle is safer than tap water from the sink.
Chad,agreed on the Bike thing ! Theres plenty of those douche bags here to get stirred up. Im going to try to tonight after I have a few beers !
The fat guy with a beard baits the fit guys – oh yeah, that’ll work out well. As you’re already half a Big Mac away from a heart attack; who cares what you think? You’ll be dead soon anyway.
As for the GM ad, so what? driving your Camaro with the high-beltline so that it covers the fact that you’re 350 lbs of all American, beef loving, jello is the only thing you can do that’ll make you attractive.
Good enough DF sidekick? or you want more?
Does that stand for Schwinn Biker Guy?
You do know I was talking about cyclists right? Not bikers. I drive a car so they can’t catch me.
350 is a bit much. DF Sidekick? Really? I don’t even see that guy anymore. Either does anyone else so at this point I’m probably more recognizable. Plus I’m cuter and chicks dig me. Ask Daphne:)
Schwhinn Biker Guy, =D
When it comes to college, and picking up women, you want a car. Chad nailed it.
Me? I’m just sick of people in general getting butt hurt over the smallest (perceived or actual) slight. Biker guys don’t like the GM ads? Don’t read them. Ride your damn bike and be happy. To hell with what everyone else thinks. If it really pisses you off, don’t bitch about it, take your dollars elsewhere when it comes time to buy a car.
Jesus H. Chirst…when did everyone lose thieir sense of humor and become so thin-skinned???
SBG = thin skin… seriously, lighten up and take a joke…I’m with HilbillySailor on this one, some people really need a reality check – everyone gets offended by everything these days, you can’t say anything anymore without some guy getting his panties all twisted up about it….. lame
Actually, I think the girl is admiring his spandex shorts, and the guy is just a little shy. I have no problems with the bicyclists, makes more room for me to drive my carbon footprinter. And, Schwinn guy needs to lighten up a little!
It’s hard to read the print on the ad but does it say that the little econobox is going for over $25k when a Sierra starts at $23k. Now that’s some eco-friendly economics.
it does.
and they wounder why green cars are not selling. it;s almost liek they do not want to sell them lol
Video format! FTW!
Saying “I’d do it” doesn’t do it for me. I don’t know who has been telling you to behave but they apparently really stuck it in ya cuz it seems to be working.
what’s a JLO? Fiat 500 looks like a fine wheel chock for all the Suburbans. None for me until they get an under 6000 pound lane.
The guy on the bike is probably quetionably gay,and not sure what to do with full grown female. Meanwhile,she’s checking him out and wonering if the seat has given him need of Viagra.That’s why she’s laughing at him.
I’m at least as thin skinned as anyone here, but sometimes I do want to put this column with the “Violation Game” which, thank god, died a natural death.
Hell, I’m old and confused by that ad. Two pages later and they will have the guy trading in his bicycle for a eco huggy Volt!
WTF?
Am I supposed to man up for the truck and get a hillbilly chic, get a tree friendly Volt and an earthy chic, or keep riding the bike because I can’t find a place to park either on of the cars on campus… Shit. No wonder he turned gay.
oh – for the other guys – I don’t have an opinion on the rightness or wrongness of gayness. It confuses me like these car ads do, but that’s okay. I don’t have to buy it either.
Chad, the Co-co-Nut car has nothing on the original Ford HEMP CAR: http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/facts/fordhemp.html