[jazusamo]

Working link:

http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/02/06/gm%E2%80%99s-dubious-super-bowl-ad-claims

[throwback]

LOL! I missed the twinkie irony. I did find the commercial a hoot. The great Chevy truck that survived the apocalypse, but it couldn’t make it past the UAW, their inferior products, or mediocre management without a government handout.

[dblshot]

It is ironic that GM exhibits a Hostess product in its ad
Well I read somewhere that as prepackaged snacks go Twinkies are the longest lasting as far as shelf life goes.

[jazusamo]

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[LucianOfSamasota]

GM is still the best reason to buy a FORD.

[norton]

I own seven fords, 1953 - 71, and no GM vehicles (OK, one left over 327 on a shelf).

I thought the GM truck apocalypse ad was the hands-down, absolute, winner of the game. (I also have a cat and Doritos came in second).

PS: I took the Twinkies more in keeping with their reputation of being no less edible after the fall as on the day they were sold.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

For those afraid to ask, that comes to $5804 per vehicle.

[spankalib]

GM continues to freely spend its stockpile of taxpayer supplied cash...................

We paid for that crappy ad.

Am I the only one pissed off about that?

FUGM

[KarlInOhio]

The commercial told me that GM trucks will survive the end of civilization... just like the other cockroaches and rats.

[altura]

I saw the ad. I thought they made a bid mistake at the end by saying, “he had a Ford.”

It would have been far more effective and less offensive if they had just said, “He didn’t have a Chevy.”

[loveliberty2]

This is the Obama's wannabe auto equivalent to the monopoly government school system.

Notice the Chevy commercial which touts the idea that it is the "car that America had to build"?

Believe Henry Ford's idea was that his auto was one citizens would want to own. Therein lies the difference.

[blueunicorn6]

Instead of using the hard-earned taxpayer’s money to, oh, I don’t know, say, put more money into their cars, or reduce the price of their cars, they use that money to attack Ford. If only the taxpayers required the government to show their Return On Investment (ROI), we’d be tossing these jokers out of office and out of their fancy chairs faster than they can make Twinkies. That’s it! GM went under and Hostess went under. The new nickname for GM vehicles.....TWINKIES!!!!

[taildragger]

You know I just googled something...2014 Ford F150

The F150 ( etc ) is apparently scheduled for a redesign / freshening by then according to the auto rumor mills / blogs.

The big rumor is light weight materials, and people forget the joint agreement with Toyota to develop a hybrid drive-train for Truck Applications.

What if they repeat their success ergo the new Fusion (and how it will potentially crush the Volt especially from an engineering standpoint) in the 2014ish F-150?

If so, Mr. Smarty Pants GM taking smack might get his engineering @$$ handed to him too...

[calex59]

One of the saddest things about the GM bailout is that when I was a boy, chevy trucks really were more dependable than fords. Fords had V8s and that made them popular with a certain crowd, while chevy had dependability and that made them popular with people who wanted value for their buck rather than a fast vehicle.

At one time I was a chevy man, but haven't been for many, many years. I have a ford truck that has 166,000+ miles on it and have replaced exactly One each clutch and water pump. Both of these well after the 100,000 mile mark.