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Old Dec 6, 2006 | 10:20 PM
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Talking "when gas was $3.50"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...i-business-hed

Originally Posted by CNW
"The design guys gave the sales guys nice product to sell, yet the marketing efforts were less than stellar. And relying on hemi engines to deliver the message to consumers when gas was $3.50 a gallon wasn't a good move."

No replacement was immediately named.
LMAO.

Bob Wilson
 
Old Dec 7, 2006 | 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by bwilson4web
Yeah, me too.

The TV commercials featuring the intellectually-challenged burger flippers lusting after Hemi pickup trucks pretty much summed up the ad campaign.

We have a local guy with a huge Ram pickup truck which has "Ya, it's a Hemi" written across the top of his windshield. I wish I could change that to "Yeah, it's a gas-guzzler."

Harry
 
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