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From: skinner@saber.UUCP (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: a funny commercial
Message-ID: <1923@saber.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 13:06:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 13:06:20 1986
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Organization: Saber Technology, San Jose, CA
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> Commercial seen on prime time Saturday:
> 
> narrator:	"Some car companies test their cars by crashing them
> 		 into a wall at 40 miles per hour"
> 
> 	<<scene shows a *generic* car crashing into a brick wall>>
> 
> narrator:	"At Volvo, we learn to drive around them"
> 
> 	<<scene shows a Volvo swerving around the brick wall and
> 	  the totalled car>>
> 

It's more interesting when you consider some of Volvo's old magazine
adds where they crashed a Volvo into a wall at >50 mph (70?).  You
could still open the front doors (without a blowtorch) and the engine
was on the ground and not in the front (or back) seat.


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