This Acura Ad Is So Crammed Full Of Horseshit I Can't Even - Jalopnik
A car, happily tearing ass down a winding California mountain road. It looks like a fantastic afternoon drive, and it’s got to be at least an hour’s drive from downtown wherever. You may have also noticed the chiron text that reads TLX: ROAD TEST. We then cut to inside the car, where we see an Acura-shirted employee, who we assume is the car salesman, and this is, as the text told us, the road test. Of the TLX. So, the guy walks into the dealership, and the salesman suggests, hey, I have an idea: why not call into work and take the rest of the day off and we’ll drive this TLX an hour or so into the mountains. I know a great little place up there where we can get dinner, and I saw there was a meteor shower tonight — let’s make a night of it. This is gonna be great. Of course, I get why they did it here — it just looks better, and that trumps thinking about what the hell is going on with a car salesman that takes potential buyers on multi-hour, high-speed test drives into the nearest mountains. But it’s what comes next that really gets me. The Acura guy then says this remarkable monologue:. I mean, you can feel a lot of things while driving a car — you can feel power, torque, how the car’s weight is shifting, grip on the road, feel through the steering wheel, the wind against the body — driving is absolutely a full sensory experience. What, exactly, is the driver supposed to be feeling, when the guy asks if he ‘feels that. Source: jalopnik.com
