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From: jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: a funny commercial
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 19:47:14 EST
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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>>
> > 
> 

I did indeed see a similar commercial -- not the above-mentioned Volvo one --
showing a Mercedez being crash-tested by smashing it into a wall.

And that's the way the Mercedez Benz!