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All this talk about a “single standard” makes me wonder why we can’t just level the whole playing field? Adopt the EU rules here in the USA, or vice versa. And why not all of North America, Japan, Aus/NZ, etc. Basically one safety & emissions standard across the board globally.
We’d finally get to buy all those cool “not available in the USA” cars here, and oh my, look Detroit could sell their stuff everywhere.
But of course that won’t happen, Detroit would rather die protecting their (shrinking) market than have to really compete.
–chuck
This is the most disingenuous piece of corporate flackery I’ve seen in a long time. The people involved should be fired for incompetence.
I write this in my capacity as a film editor more so than as someone who gives a shit about cars.
That has to be one of the most nauseatingly dishonest pieces of propaganda I’ve ever seen, loathsome enough to make Leni Riefenstahl blush, and that’s even before I pay attention to a word he said.
So obviously scripted and rehearsed, and yet dressed, mostly shot, and edited as if to suggest these are outtakes from multiple interviews conducted with a host/interviewer just off screen. I could be wrong, but I do believe that not once–not one single time, even for a second–does he ever address the camera. As he should, if he and the production tear were at all being honest about the intention of this piece.
The fact that when he’s outdoors there is a multi-camera set-up only reinforces the lie this whole thing is.
The White House in the BG was just more manipulation.
Personally, I found his stubborn refusal to address camera so disconcerting that I really did have trouble paying attention to what he was saying. Inasmuch as I did, it mostly sounded like a covert excuse to carry on with business as usual; more lies, perhaps attempting to instill fear in the casual viewer of a future that’s not actually ready for carbon-neutral or carbon-negative automotive transport; there’s no infrastructure you see, so, better just carry on building shitty cars that burn a lot of gas.
Infuriating.
Just one more reason for me to never buy a new D3 car.
Yikes. The guy can’t even look at you while talking. Heh, that says a lot. Aside from that he doesn’t enunciate his words making it difficult to even hear his diatribe.
@Ferrygeist: Exactly right.
What dope is this guy smoking?!
I feel like that speech – and the tone – came right out of 1984, Newspeak and all.
Dude sorta looks like Alex Trebek, and I don’t even buy the shit he’s selling…
Wait: did I just hear that right? This cat is boasting about lap and shoulder belts? If only I could find more ways to short the autos!
The thing that makes Leni Riefenstahl so fascinating . as opposed to this silliness, is that she was an extraordinary film maker.
You could be watching the most vile events and yet be drawn in by the power of the imagery.
The trouble with todays liars and thieves is that they don’t even give us the respect of trying to construct a clever lie. I find that insulting.
These oafs should all be sent to a school where they play Nixon/ Reagan tapes 24/7. Now that’s how it’s done my friends.
Ferrygeist: “That has to be one of the most nauseatingly dishonest pieces of propaganda I’ve ever seen, loathsome enough to make Leni Riefenstahl blush, and that’s even before I pay attention to a word he said.”
Shoot, yes, we all know the auto industry is even worse than the guy Riefenstahl was working for. How the hell do those guys get the idea the First Amendment applies to what they want to say?
Ferrygeist: Just one more reason for me to never buy a new D3 car.
Several foreign car companies are members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
The membership roster consists of:
BMW
Chrysler
Ford Motor Company
General Motors Corporation
Volkswagen
Daimler
Mitsubishi Motors
Mazda Motor Corporation
Porsche
Toyota
The only major car companies that aren’t members are Honda and Nissan.
I wish the Alliance had hired Denis Leary to deliver a “go pound sand” message instead. Would have been entertaining. In the end auto manufacturers are either going to build vehicles they can sell at a profit or they’re going to exit the business. Fuel economy standards help spur along things like 6 speed automatics replacing 4 speed automatics, but consumers hold the final vote on what vehicles get built. See history of California Zero-emisions Vehicle Mandate.
probert: right. That’s why this would make her blush. It gives talented propagandists like her reason to be embarrassed for the Propaganda Industry!
50merc: relax. You’re looking for enemies where they don’t exist. Nowhere did I so much as even limply imply that the AAM doesn’t have first amendment protected speech. They can say anything they please about anyone any time. And I can say anything about them that I please. And moreover, in this case, as I thought my preamble made clear, I was primarily critiquing this PSA as a piece of film making, not for its ostensible content. If you read it again–carefully–you might see that that is the case.
That YOU should suggest that I might be drawing an equivalency between he who shall not be named and the AAM is grotesque. No one but yourself has suggested as much. Not a good way to elevate the debate.
Geeber, thanks for that correction. I had no idea. That’s disappointing.
I wonder how involved the manufacturers are in how the AAM presents itself.
-Seatbelts important – check!
-Don’t look in rear view mirror, only look ahead – got it!
-Watch out for new realities on the road – I’ll keep my eyes peeled!
pssst.. hey, anyone know what a “new reality” looks like? I hit something on the way to work this morning and I’m worried that it might have been one.
Damn, he sounds just like Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock.
He’s not quite as in touch with reality as Kenneth though.
Thanks, Roberto, for posting this. It makes me ashamed to be a fellow human being, seeing these groveling, mincing weenies giving us their version of “I, for one, welcome our new carbon nazi overlords.”
When the socialist dictatorship is complete and the trucks roll (silently on their vast battery-packs), don’t these miserable human doormats realize they will the first ones picked up and ushered behind the canvas curtain?
Ralph, Ralph Ralph,
What are you raving about. What is a “socialist dictatorship”. what, in your fertile imagination, is a “socialist”?
Is this a german fellow? Those crazy guys who make your BMWs, Audis, Bugattis and other socialist trash.
The British, the French, the evil Swedes who are at your door as I write this? It’s the Dutch isn’t it? Or the Canadians lined up at our border ready to nice us into submission.
Why they’re all parliamentary democracies.
They have rich people, good schools, nice teeth (Ok, not the british), 5 weeks paid vacation (take one my friend), and they generally don’t kill each other at rapid rate.
Ah – I think you’re kidding so I’ll stfu.
probert, probert, probert!
What are you raving about?
A little hyperbole, sir. It never killed anyone (at a rapid or a slow rate, good teeth or bad). And why should socialists be ashamed of the term?
I’m just a bit ill at ease with “parliamentary democracies,” or whatever, that so earnestly know better than me how I should live and so earnestly want to keep me free from things (danger, fear, poverty, global warming, etc. etc.) I’d rather just be free. Responsible, caring, concerned (even about “the planet”)but free.