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She’s young, used to getting her way, and she wants her Regal. But what are the odds of this scene repeating itself in America?
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“The Chinese Love Buicks.”
Reminds me of the old SNL Line
“Germans love David Hasselhoff”
Go figure.
There is no accounting for taste.
OK – i’ll call viral video marketing ploy. I’m in the business. Can anyone translate the copy? Interesting to know how virals work on state-controlled internet. Wouldn’t stop it from being shown on local news and talkshows, though.
edit: On viewing again I’m even more sure it’s an attempt at viral video. Made to look like cellphone-shot, but has zoom. Who carries a video camera into a dealership?
What was that little lightning thing between her eyes and (presumably) the salesman’s eyes?
Wish I could speak and read Mandarin (if indeed, it was Mandarin).
Translation, please? Anyone? Bueller?
The odds of this happening in America
are as good as this happening in China. I especially like the way the salesman stands in front of the car and pushes it backward. Who hands the keys to a car in a showroom to a customer anway?
I speak Mandarin.
She is saying that she loves her some Buick and she mentions that Bob Lutz is her ham-fisted hero.
Could be real, phones today have autofocus and audio, some even allow for editing.
Lets be honest, because of the one-child policy along with the gender specific fetus termination, being female in China going to become a very valuable asset.
Cell phones outside of the US are advanced enough to have zoom (could just be digital zoom).
It’s Mandarin. I don’t understand it very well, and the audio was hard to hear to begin with, but I think I heard “I want it” at the beginning and I know I heard the salesman shout “Don’t drive it!” several times. I didn’t understand anything in the latter half of the video.
Could be viral, or could just an employee or customer who filmed it, edited it, and posted it. The lightning is common in comic books between people who are mad at each other… kind of like how comics in the West use thought bubbles with “$*@&#” in them to express anger.
Are you sure those wern’t quotes from Mao’s Little Red Book?
“The car of the capitalist-roader running yellow dog imperialists will run down the proletariat with nary a thought except for profiting the corporate lackeys of the American enemy.”
I tried to translate but there is too much echo and can’t make out the words. But after she gets in the car and starts driving it he says “I’ll buy it, I’ll buy it.” I’ll try listening to it after everyone else leaves work for the day.
I don’t think that was the salesman. Her husband or boyfriend.
Goes something like this:
Man: “Every time go shopping you’re like this. I won’t buy it for you right now.”
I can’t hear what she’s saying before she gets in the car. He says, “You get in the car, I won’t buy it for you.”
He calls her name a couple times (I think) and she starts the car up and drives forward.
“Stop driving, don’t drive” *hits the hood*
Then a lot of “I’ll buy it!”
And when she chills out, he says “Turn it off” a couple times.
I think I heard some english being spoken in the background briefly too.
I’ll tell you one thing… one of the back-up lights (the left one) is already burnt out.
I was hoping she would drive that sucker through the plate glass window. This scene could occur in North America except it would be an 80 year old woman driving the Regal.
These Uber Buicks have directional reverse lights, whatever is on is going that way, buddy!
Same as in Florida u need to drive with Left turn signal on as a warning flag for all others as u’re Armed & Dangerous.
Wow. I guess she’d really rather have a Buick, faulty left reversing lamp and all.
In Europe it’s common for cars to only have one reversing light – do we know that Chinese cars have two?
Just proves Chinese women can’t drive.
Maybe its me…
Maybe its my age..
Maybe its the cars that Im enthused about..
But this (Buick) is certainly not a vehicle (Regal) I’d be interested enough to go screaming wild..
And even with my silver tongue.. couldn’t get the keys from the guy.. and never to drive a car in the show room.
In other words..
A crock of shit.
I thought I was clicking on “Girls Gone Wild.”
This was not what I expected.
there’s no effin’ way you could even get me into any buick short of ’87 GNX
@carlisimo:
The very first thing I went and did when I saw the “burned out reversing lamp” comment above mine was go check if the Chinese-spec Regal is equipped with a red rear fog on the left and a white reversing lamp on the right, in symetrically identical locations, which is the configuration in which you find only one reversing lamp in Europe. That is not the case on the Chinese Regal; it has dual reversing lamps, and one of them on the car shown is apparently defective.
“The Chinese Love Buicks.”
Reminds me of the old SNL Line
“Germans love David Hasselhoff”
Go figure.
There is no accounting for taste.
Come now. Be honest. Is that Regal really any less attractive than the camcords that people swoon over here in the states?
It’s a viral marketing video and had its 15 minutes of fame in China…last January.