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Posted By JohnNeff 1 year, 3 months ago in Style
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Land Rover may donate money or the use of its vehicles to aid disaster relief efforts as a result of this marketing campaign, but that bad taste in our mouth comes from the fact that it likely wouldn't do those things if a camera weren't there to capture it.

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    crespi1 year, 3 months ago

    I can't remember if it was Land Rover or some other all terrain vehicle in the mid 1980s that showed the it intentionally narrowly missing running over a coiled rattlesnake, and frightening other desert animals. The line was "[car Name], the DOMINANT SPECIES."

    This newest mis-step is typical.

    They really don't know how to sell cars do they?

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