<VV> Bordering Comical...

[Mike Ioanes]

Subject: <VV> Bordering Comical...
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    Ford unleashed TV ads that featured an arrow with a moveable head. The 
head was supposed to be the engine. When the head was at the front of the 
arrow, it shot straight and true. When the head was moved to the back of the 
arrow, it was erratic. This brilliant piece of advertising nonsense implied 
that a front engine car was the right way, and the Ford way. A rear engine 
car was the wrong way, and the Corvair way.

 Not saying this isn't true, but what I remember form the early 60's is 
similar ads by Simca (a French  product marketed by Chrysler) saying the 
same thing.  Amazingly, or humorously, they later introduced a rear-engined 
car.  A neighbor had one of their older, front-engine, rear drive cars and a 
friend's older sister had one of the rear-engine ones. 
www.centuryinter.net/Simca/

Mike Ioanes