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Title: suzuki commercial
Post by: ashman on October 11, 2006, 06:54:24 PM
i saw a suzuki commercial on Speed tonight which featured suz brand cars AND the gsxR. It was just odd I dont think I had ever seen a spot for both. As a marketing major i always found that odd.
ash
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: My Name Is Dave on October 11, 2006, 07:10:05 PM
Probably because they don't want people to associate their sick bikes with those pile of shaZam! cars.
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: TragicImage on October 11, 2006, 07:13:44 PM
you're talking about the one where there is a shadow of a GSXR instead of the shadow of the X-7 SUV?
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: bucks1605 on October 11, 2006, 07:46:49 PM
Quote from: My Name Is Dave on October 11, 2006, 07:10:05 PM
Probably because they don't want people to associate their sick bikes with those pile of shaZam! cars.

I agree, I was walking by a suzuki car the other day and thinking, "So, what kind of car do you have?" "Oh, I've got the new suzuki." It just is weird to think about suzuki cars, whats next a nice kawasaki, or yamaha minivan.
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: My Name Is Dave on October 11, 2006, 08:36:41 PM
Funny how Honda got the math right on both sides of the equation. Nobody else could though. Well, Yamaha makes a good keyboard if you like to tickle the ivories.  :)

I saw the print ad also. They don't mention anything about the bike being a GSX-R. Again, I point to my original theory.
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: makenzie71 on October 11, 2006, 11:29:53 PM
The advertisement says specifically "are our cars as fun to drive as our bikes" or something like that.  It opened up with a K6 1000 screaming down some windy road and going into a tunnel and coming out some little zooki car.

Suzuki cars are f%$king awesome.  Anyone here remember the first Swift?  Badass little car...and the Turbo 2 is f%$king cool, too.  All kinds of badassery in the right light.
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: CirclesCenter on October 11, 2006, 11:41:55 PM
They should just take the cars and put one Busa motor to power the front wheels and one to power the back wheels...
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: makenzie71 on October 11, 2006, 11:51:12 PM
They've already done something similar to that...it was essentially a chop-top, hayabusa powered Capaccino roadster.

Learn something new every day...the Hayabusa was named after this:

(http://satoyama-club.jp/satoyama/zukan/bird/hayabusa/hayabusa01.jpg)
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: CirclesCenter on October 11, 2006, 11:59:13 PM
In production by suzuki? Nice.

Yep the Hayabusa was named after that bird, which eats this bird

(http://www.skopelos.net/birds/images/blackbird-male.jpg)

Which shares a name with:

(http://images.carzone.ie/images/mimotorserviceCBRPEA855.jpg)
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: makenzie71 on October 12, 2006, 12:36:22 AM
nutty...the xx shares a lot of design ques with the busa...and the busa (bike) shares a lot of design ques with the busa (bird)...but I can't place too much between the blackbird (bike) and the blackbird (bird).
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: vtlion on October 12, 2006, 07:20:59 AM
yeah, and for that matter the Katana doesn't look ANYTHING like a sword, the Thundercat doesn't even have whiskers and the Interceptor can't even CATCH!! ... I feel like I've been lied to  :cry:
Title: Re: suzuki commercial
Post by: makenzie71 on October 12, 2006, 10:42:11 AM
damned coorporate bullshit!  Lets boycot bikes!