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February 10, 2012 at 9:18 AM #737683February 10, 2012 at 9:30 AM #737685
paddyoh
ParticipantHyundai is a Korean company founded in Korea in 1967. Hyundai has made major inroads in the American marketplace in the last few years. This is due in no small part to the enormous celebrity of American-born Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges, and his promotion of Hyundai the Walmart car.
We saw what happened when we let the Japanese take over the American auto market in the 1970’s – arguably by our own undoing. They just took advantage of our own stupidity and greed.
I personally have nothing against the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans or any other of our Asian competitors.
What I DO have a problem with is handing over so many of our blue collar jobs on an unfair playing field, especially when it is aided and abetted by otherwise decent Americans who seem clueless of the effect of their actions.
Of course, my particular pet peeve is with Jeff Bridges shilling for the Walmart car known as HIE-YUN-DIE and what is, in my opinion, a huge mistake on Bridge’s part.
Please join me in politely asking Jeff Bridges to bail out of the embarrassing Hyundai advertising campaign.
It is just WAY too un-Dude.
February 10, 2012 at 9:35 AM #737690CoronitaParticipant[quote=paddyoh]Hyundai is a Korean company founded in Korea in 1967. Hyundai has made major inroads in the American marketplace in the last few years. This is due in no small part to the enormous celebrity of American-born Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges, and his promotion of Hyundai the Walmart car.
We saw what happened when we let the Japanese take over the American auto market in the 1970’s – arguably by our own undoing. They just took advantage of our own stupidity and greed.
I personally have nothing against the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans or any other of our Asian competitors.
What I DO have a problem with is handing over so many of our blue collar jobs on an unfair playing field, especially when it is aided and abetted by otherwise decent Americans who seem clueless of the effect of their actions.
Of course, my particular pet peeve is with Jeff Bridges shilling for the Walmart car known as HIE-YUN-DIE and what is, in my opinion, a huge mistake on Bridge’s part.
Please join me in politely asking Jeff Bridges to bail out of the embarrassing Hyundai advertising campaign.
It is just WAY too un-Dude.[/quote]
Paddy, give it up… No one gives a crap anymore. Why don’t you focus on pig iron parts, will you?
February 10, 2012 at 1:11 PM #737701scaredyclassic
ParticipantWait.. The Dude himself says I should get a Hyundai? Is there a dealer in temecula?
I need a car.February 10, 2012 at 2:53 PM #737705CoronitaParticipant[quote=walterwhite]Wait.. The Dude himself says I should get a Hyundai? Is there a dealer in temecula?
I need a car.[/quote]If you got $60 grand to spend…
http://www.hyundaiusa.com/equus/
There is a moot point to bash Hyundai or for that matter Kia…The koreans have been able to achieve what the japanese did with their cars, except it took the koreans much less time to do it.
The Hyundai Genesis is doing alright, Sonata are doing well, and youring starting to see the Kia Optima more and more these days, because they are a good car….They are quickly replacing toyota and honda in the ever growing car appliance segment.
Meanwhile, you got a VW Passat now built in the U.S. for the U.S. market…Welcome to globalization.
February 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM #737710Allan from Fallbrook
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Meanwhile, you got a VW Passat now built in the U.S. for the U.S. market…Welcome to globalization.[/quote]
FLU: Except for those too stupid to understand it.
February 10, 2012 at 6:34 PM #737716Participant“Paddy, give it up… No one gives a crap anymore.”
If no one gives a crap why are you still responding to my posts?
I have not deviated from my message of asking Jeff Bridges to junk the supremely uncool Hyundai Walmart car ads.
You and Allen must have been the nerds in high school that everyone picked on.
February 10, 2012 at 7:45 PM #737717CoronitaParticipant[quote=paddyoh]”Paddy, give it up… No one gives a crap anymore.”
If no one gives a crap why are you still responding to my posts?
I have not deviated from my message of asking Jeff Bridges to junk the supremely uncool Hyundai Walmart car ads.
You and Allen must have been the nerds in high school that everyone picked on.[/quote]
I just love giving out crap at idiotic posts.
But, yah you’re right about the nerd part. Damn proud of it. Given the choices of being a nerd with control of my financial future like I have now, or being a goof-ball non-nerd that didn’t bother to keep up and improve, and now worry about being extinct, I would pick door #1 anyday. You? Ah, never mind, you already answered it…
See the way I look at it, unless some of you backassward people in our country changes your viewpoint about “smart” being uncool and “dumb” is cool, the rest of the world will easily take away the opportunities you pissed away…Blame it on foreign cheap competition. But the real truth is, you folks fvcked up and goofed around during your prime years when it mattered, and as a result, the opportunities went to someone else…Yeah, some folks probably had an unfortunate event (maybe health, maybe other personal issues)… I can understand those people that were shit out of luck and as a society we should help those people. On the other hand, we have a lot of clowns like yourself that simply frowned upon being “smart” aka “learning”, goofed off, and now being in a piss poor state, blame other people for your problems. Go figure.
I never understood folks like yourself that equate being “dumb” equals being “american”, but hey, there’s plenty of Sarah Palin voters too, so I guess I’m not surprised.
Let me ask you any other question. Even if your anger (albeit is misdirected) is somewhat justified at foreign competition…Has all of your bitterness, your actions, your time and efforts you’ve been spending to channel your bitterness personally have improved your own situation or your family’s? Or did you just waste a bunch of time bitching about things and am in no better situation now than before? If it’s the latter, than why do you continue to spend a disproportionate amount of time bitching about things rather than taking matters into your own hands and improving your own future? If this is such a life and death struggle for yourself, why do you waste so much time on things that don’t improve your personal situation? Think about that one.
February 10, 2012 at 9:05 PM #737720Participanti was pretty smart in hs but liked to handicap myself. so i would never study just try to pass from what i could recall in class. this was a mistake. i did well but could have done better if I had even remotely tried. In hs I always respected smart people but felt all their incessant studying kind of was unfair, made the competition less balanced on pure skill and memory. it would be better to have a rule against any studying, just have people retain as much as they can , then take the test. this could incentivize closer attention paying and would help thin out the weaker minds.
in law school, though, studying actually was required. except for the really smart people.
February 11, 2012 at 4:59 AM #737730ParticipantMy particular pet peeve is with Jeff Bridges shilling for the Walmart car known as HIE-YUN-DIE and what is, in my opinion, a huge mistake on Bridge’s part.
Please join me in politely asking Jeff Bridges to bail out of the embarrassing Hyundai advertising campaign.
It is just WAY too un-Dude.
No hard feeling to those of you who disagree.
February 11, 2012 at 9:43 AM #737733briansd1
GuestPerhaps Jeff Bridges adversting Ford trucks would be more bad-ass DUDE.
Hyundais were seen as weak Asian cars. Bringing a American dude as spokeman probably helped change the image and increase sales.
I remember a time when no real American man would be seen in a Toyota. But that’s changed. FLU is right that the Koreans did it faster than the Japanese.
BTW, I don’t think that Allan was a nerd. Given his military service in Central America and his sports prowess, he was more likely a stud.
Also the Koreans did not play fair. They kept their markets closed and subsidized their firms through a process called internal innovation. They have been the most successful country at it. We allowed them because they are a small country and we needed them as an ally.
February 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM #737746ParticipantPatty Me Down O’Frisk Me: It would appear that “Classy Clint” isn’t helping Chrysler’s fortunes according to CNNMoney: http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/10/chrysler-is-still-in-trouble/?iid=SF_F_Lead
Maybe you should go hector CNNMoney on their blog and demand that they stop writing such articles? I know how much the truth irritates you.
February 11, 2012 at 12:37 PM #737749ParticipantFighting is bad in part because dental work is incredibly expensive.
February 11, 2012 at 12:37 PM #737748ParticipantMy particular pet peeve is with Jeff Bridges shilling for the Walmart car known as HIE-YUN-DIE and what is, in my opinion, a huge mistake on Bridge’s part.
Please join me in politely asking Jeff Bridges to bail out of the embarrassing Hyundai advertising campaign.
It is just WAY too un-Dude.
No hard feelings with those of you who disagree.
February 11, 2012 at 1:25 PM #737750ParticipantI would like to thank all of you (especially Allan and Flu) for helping me to keep this thread going for such a long time.
I would also like to thank the talented, prolific and patriotic Californian, Clint
Eastwood, for reminding me how celebrity can inspire positive thoughts.With any luck, the negative thoughts conjured up by Hyundai and the Jeff
Bridges voice-overs will fade into the past, more sooner than later.Hopefully, this past week, filled with debate and headlines about Eastwood’s Super Bowl video will encourage more good folks to purchase an American-Born, American-Bred and American-Labeled automobile.
To quote Mr. Eastwood:
“Seems that we’ve lost our heart at times. The fog, the division, the discord and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead. But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right and acted as one. Because that’s what we do. We find a way through tough times, and if we can’t find a way, then we’ll make one.”
“All that matters now is what’s ahead. How do we come from behind? How do we come together? And how do we win? Detroit’s showing us it can be done. And what’s true about them is true about all of us. This country can’t be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again, and when we do the world’s going to hear the roar of our engines.”
All in all, it has been a pretty good week in the good ole U.S. of A.
Stay positive and…..Go get ’em Chrysler !
HIE-YUN-DIE does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.
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