Anybody see the 2005 Mustang "Anthem" commercial?

[BJ]

From the Ford media Web site:

“Anthem” engages the viewer in a 60-second celebration of Mustang history and the American spirit. Set in Utah’s Monument Valley, the ad visually captures the freedom of America’s wide-open spaces. A red 2005 Mustang GT provides the centerpiece for the ad, “watching” brand-defining Mustang moments from the past, along with images introducing the all-new vehicle. Its signature V-8 exhaust note rumbles into a distinctive tribute: a unique automotive rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.”

I saw this right after I turned on the late NFL game on Faux. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. But believe it I did.

One of the most blatant meldings of patriotic and emotional "sex-family-home" symbolism for crass consumer hucksterism I've ever seen. I was truly disgusted at how low Ford Motor and it's ad agency will stoop to peddle over-priced, dinosaurian automobiles.

I truly hope the young sucker reactionaries who purchase this gas-hog because it is The American thing to do don't come whining to me when gasoline hits five dollars a gallon!

[TwentyFive]

1. Also, I hate products that use Classic Rock songs to sell products! GRRR!

But taking the Star Spangled Banner to sell a Mustang is just horrible!!

[Astrochimp]

2. Yea, whining about the Mustang

is the way for Dems to get votes.

Just what car do you think is "The American thing" to buy?


David

[BJ]

5. How 'bout a Hummer.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Yes, wasn't it Patriotic?

it almost brought a tear to my eye. :cry: NOT! Anything to make a buck, sell the soul of the country for the almighty dollar.

[Bluebear]

4. 29 mpg on the highway, is that a gas hog?

Just askin'!

[BJ]

6. Where'd you get the milage info?

Just askin'?

GT
Manual: 17/25 mpg / Automatic: 18/23 mpg

V-6
Manual: 19/28 mpg / Automatic: 19/25 mpg

http://media.ford.com/products/presskit_display.cfm?vehicle_id=1052&press_section_id=398&make_id=92

[Bluebear]

8. From an online car review

I'm not arguing your points but it's a pretty innocuous little vehicle compared to, say, an Expedition. Course I am not taling about a souped-up GT either.

[BJ]

11. It's not so much the gas milage as in imagery.

[Bluebear]

12. Agreed. And all the commercials seem to pander to Jezusland

"I'm a Ford truck man, that's all I draaaaaahv, I ain't got no boundriessssss I don't compromise....."

[Placebo]

7. Chill the F out.

[high density]

9. Ford is so far out of ideas that they have to rip off antique designs

Very sad.

[Placebo]

10. Everything old is new again.

Everything retro is very mod now.

Funny how society and culture works.

[billbuckhead]

13. The retro Mustang will be a huge success and gets mpg better than any SUV

with a V6. Who's to say what a car should like. Porsche rear engine cars have looked the same forever. Maybe Ford should look to some of it's old designs, but then I drive a New Beetle, so I'm prejudiced in favor of retro cars.

[bemis12]

14. You either drive a Mustang, or you're against us.

[BlueManDude]

15. The NFL-FOX-Coors thing is starting to sicken me

it's getting hard just to watch sports these days. I see RW politics everywhere.