Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie - and a Downer of an Ad Campaign. (chevy trucks mellencamp)

autoextremist ^ | 10192006

[InvisibleChurch]

[loveitor..]

Cougar/Mellencamp is a self satisfied leftist dolt...big mistake you suits at Chevy, I won't buy one purposely now because you dopes feature this anti-american Indiana metro-sexual.

an excerpt from johnny boy....

" ...I've always been a liberal. I grew up in the '60s. I like Jane Fonda," he says -- Mellencamp took part in the Vote for Change tour, the recent gathering of music-biz heavyweights hoping to retire George W. to Texas. The left-leaning collective of rock stars failed in its main objective, of course, primarily because so many of Mellencamp's fellow midwesterners opted for the status quo. Indiana was about 60 percent pro-Bush. Mellencamp says he was "disappointed" in the results. His new song "Walk Tall" ("The simple-minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray") says "disappointed" is an understatement."

[Pan_Yans Wife]

In the first pic he looks like Mark Karr of JonBenet fame.

[csvset]

Richard Nixon, the most disgraced President in history

That distinction should be held by Clinton, imho.

I've seen the doom and gloom version of the ad and it sucks.

Hell, GM should have shown Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile !

[excalibur1701]

I stopped listening to "johnny" ever since he went on tour to defeat Bush. I'll never forget the day he was booed at an Indianapolis Colts game in his home town.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Ironically, there's another edit in the new Chevy truck "Our Country" TV campaign that's a flat-out hit, but unless you watch "Football Night in America" on Sunday nights on NBC, you're not going to see it (I assume they're running it in conjunction with college football too). This edit, filled with images of small-town America football, as well as classic snippets of college and pro football, soars. The Mellencamp song positively comes alive, and the visuals jump out at you with stirring images on field - and off. This is the spot that should be in dominant rotation. This is the spot that aligns perfectly with Chevy trucks.

They ought to mix scenes of the Miami-FIU football fight with images of their truck.

I don't like most TV ads. I really don't like most car ads and I've long disliked Chevy ads most of all.

So Chevy trucks are what makes America great? Maybe their next ad will show Chavez, Saddam and Kim driving Ford trucks.

[kittymyrib]

The only two presidential ads I remember are LBJ's horrible "Mushroom Cloud" ad against Goldwater and Ronald Reagan's inspirational "Morning in America" ad. You would think that even the dolts who run GM could figure out that they would sell more Chevys and good will with the latter theme...but that's why they are losing billions every year.

[RayStacy]

bump for later

[Right Wing Assault]

The downer ad is for leftists.

[southlake_hoosier]

Chevrolet is playing both the Left and the Right. They are hoping that both sides see a part of their ad campaign that they like and will feel 'patriotic' and relate Chevy with the USA.

The truth is that GM has moved almost all their manufacturing to either Mexico or Canada. There are very few GM cars/trucks still built here in the USA.

GM is assuming the population in the USA is too stupid to really look for the truth, and are mindless CNN types that just believe what they see on TV.

[battlecry]

I agree, but those guys aren't driving trucks. Therefore...

[Doogle]

Hell, GM should have shown Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile !

excellent point,but then again the old Olds...???...didn't float..and there's absolutely no truth to the rumor GM is thinking about introducing a new model with HUGE airbags for midnight drives called the "SWIMMER"

Doogle

[From One - Many]

Convinced me I never want another chevrolet.

[wideawake]

My favorite John Mellencamp moment?

When "Johnny Cougar" changed his stage name to John Cougar Mellencamp, the lead singer of Philly trash-punk band The Dead Milkmen changed his stage name from Rodney Anonymous to Rodney Anonymous Mellencamp.

And John Mellencamp threatened him with legal action.

[wideawake]

The truth is that GM has moved almost all their manufacturing to either Mexico or Canada. There are very few GM cars/trucks still built here in the USA.

Wrong.

[theDentist]

Looks more like Kristy McNichol in both photos.

[sportutegrl]

So Chevy trucks are what makes America great? Maybe their next ad will show Chavez, Saddam and Kim driving Ford trucks.

How about all of the insurgents in Iraq and Afganistan driving their Toyotas with rocket launchers on the back.

[Lekker 1]

The first time I saw that commercial, I said to my wife, "Notice that nearly every shot is of either a disaster or an embarassing time in our history."

Doesn't Chevy know that Leftists drive Prius's not big ol' gas-guzzling pickup trucks and SUVs? I was quite surprized because I thought the "Like a Rock" campaign was pretty good.

[bornacatholic]

If Chevy wanted to attract buyers, It could have built a campaign with a blood red GTO and a bevy of tall blondes wearing short skirts and stiletto heels posed provocatively around it...

Oh, well, then a Camaro or something

[southlake_hoosier]

I stand corrected, after looking at GM's own numbers available on their corporate website, about slight less then 1/2 are built in the USA, the remaining over 1/2 of them are built outside the USA.