olds4life

hey olds nation! has anyone seen the chevy corvette commercial referencing it as a rocket.

arodenhiser

I had a tight cringing feeling when I heard the line "America still builds rockets!"

Grrrr!

It is up on youtube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJW9Up0nJT4

Adam

Lady72nRob71

Disappointing, but at least it is staying in GM though...

Yesterday I saw a toyo magazine ad touting travelling in "avalon style".
Cadillac used that slogan a number of years ago referencing "cadillac style".
Wonder if there will be a lawsuit over it?

citcapp

I think I'm gonna puke. The Rocket should be sacrosanct to Oldsmobile. WTF

Oldsguy

I saw the ad yesterday and got a hollow feeling in my stomach

Olds luvr

Well guys I heard on a comercial for a car company (don't remeber which one) and they used the tag line "dont just trade in, Trade Up" and that was used by Olds in 70 or 71. They have the classic comercial of olds using that on youtube and was a real comercial back in the day. i have not heard the vette one yet

olds4life

maybe we should give GM a call about it.

Lady72nRob71

A good idea, but that would be a total nightmare... Ever called a big company in the past several years? Those 'automated' systems seem to get one nowhere (and I think that is their purpose...)
Now I did find out that cussing at the American airlines system WILL divert your call to a live person.

mmurphy77

I agree about the misplaced reference but I have to admit that is one bad-*** commercial. BMW's slogan, "The ultimate driving machine" was first used to describe an early 60s Pontiac too. Go figure. That Corvette commercial was the first one for Corvette in over 20 years. It's nice to see "the General" touting it's performance again. I've read they have been VERY cautious on when and where this ad has run (usually at night, on ESPN, SPEED, etc., staying away from Prime-time Networks) as to not stir up the PC crowd.

Olds64

I haven't seen it yet. Then again we all know what GM stands for today...

wmachine

Corvette borrowing (stealing?) from Olds is nothing new, it is just usually more subtle. See the pic of the louvers in the yellow '68 Corvette? See the pic of the louvers in the red *'65* Jetstar 1?

gearheads78

You guys worry too much. I have not seen it but I assume its for a ZR1 Corvette. It you drive one you will see its closer to a rocket than anything Olds ever built. I had a customer bring one in for service the other day and I asked honestly "how fast have you taken it up to?" He said he had it up to 198 once on the tollway.

Blk71SX

you guys must be really pissed at NASA

Barry Jones

Just dont take 2 beers and pull the emergency slide! That will get you noticed in a bad way!!

arodenhiser

Not really, Olds did copy the shuttle when they made the Silhouette.

Adam

mmurphy77

Not to split hairs Kurt but the Yellow 'Vette you pictured is a '70-'72. Good point though.

Yellowstatue

And don't forget that the Furd people are driving around in our Fiesta's!!!

wmachine

I googled Corvettes to find a pic of the right one, and that was identified a '68. I'll have to look into it further, as I'd like a correct reference.
Regardless, it is still a later offering of basically the same thing.

70 cutlass s

If nothing else its a nice video of Kentucky.

I think Corvette used the side louvers like whats in that pic from 68-72.

mmurphy77

'68-'69 'Vettes had 4 'gills', '70-'72 had these 'egg crates' (I owned a '72 Stingray), '73-'79 had a single side 'scoop'.

70 cutlass s

The link shows your right. The 68-69 had vertical louvers or grills whatever you want to call them. Earlier every pic I could pull up must have been a 70-72 but titled as a 68. That's what I hate about the internet.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1968-corvette.htm