From the Only In China blotter: A customer who did not receive the service he expected for his Cayenne used sex to drive home his point in a photogenic way. A Chinese man threw body-painted girls into the battle with his Porsche dealership. Do not click if arty camel toes offend you.
According to Carnewschina, Mr. Guo bought his Cayenne Turbo in July 2011 for the rather steep price of 2.7 million yuan ($423,000). The driver claims that a few weeks ago, the brakes failed while he was parking his Cayenne in an underground parking lot. Result: Damaged Porsche, injured passenger.
Guo wanted his car to be fixed for free and his passenger compensated. The dealer in the Chinese city of Taiyuan deemed the brakes as operative and refused to pay.
Not having received the satisfaction he desired, Guo embarked on a publicity campaign that, as you can tell, now went global. Two ladies were body-painted. The left character means ‘protect’, the right means ‘rights’. The Porsche logo was covered with a skull.
The damage did not pass the, albeit remote, inspection of Carnewschina: “The Porsche actually doesn’t seem so damaged, it looks more like Guo simply took the front-end off.” Carnewschina says that ‘local authorities’ are looking into the matter, and it opines that the painted ladies would be first to be interrogated.
Is there really such a thing as bad press?
Looking at the resent debacle involving the brand in your avatar I would say yes.;)
Isn’t Chinese-luxury-car-owners-staging-semi-retarded-protest-complete-with-gimmick starting to turn into a car news (or filler) genre?
Huh? That’s like encouraging the dealerships (or at least its employees) to mistreat him further!
It appears that the paint is applied over bodysuits.
Btw, would this be the proper time to complain that the photo viewer can’t keep the image on screen, instead darting it somewhere out of view when an iPhone user tries to enlarge the image of said camel toes, uh, murilee’s arty junkyard pics? (this is nearly as annoying as the grey bar that separates from near the top of the pay if one tries to scroll down before the page finishes loading…)
I agree with the photo viewer sentiment. Even on a desktop computer I’d rather the simplicity of plain HTML. Perhaps clicking (tapping) a photo takes you to a page with all the pictures in a column. Then I’d have the option of bringing that up in a separate page, separate tab, or replacing the existing page. Zooming would work correctly on both desktop browsers and mobile ones. I could even bookmark the pictures so that I could refer friends to this site so that TTAC could have more viewers.
Oh… judging by the picture, I think the title should read “Cayenne” and not “Cayman.”
I would escalate the issue by using more protests i.e. Bikini Mud Wrestling, Wet T-shirt contests, NUDE CAR WASHES. I wish I were in China doing this guy’s advertising. Excuse me I have to go to the bath room for a while.
And now it’s time to turn the Passche TG#2L Double Action Feed Airbrush over to TTAC’s tame racing driver. Some say he cut off his left ear and mailed it to a former Marine Corps aviator turned Vice Chairman of General Motors. And that he once recreated Dali’s “Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea (which at 18 meters becomes a portrait of Abraham Lincoln)” with nothing but nail polish stolen from Vodka McBigbra’s medicine cabinet. All we know is, he’s called the Jack.