Angry Ford dealer in SC blasts imports in ads[views:2334][posts:23]________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 1:19am - zyklon ""] SAVANNAH, Ga. – A Ford dealer angered over the proposed bailout of U.S. automakers blames the nation's sour economy on Congress and criticized buyers of Japanese cars, calling the vehicles "rice ready ... not road ready" in a radio ad. O.C. Welch, who owns a dealership near Savannah in Hardeeville, S.C., began airing the minute-long ad on a dozen stations in the area over the weekend. The ad sounds more like a talk-radio tirade than a sales pitch. "All you people that buy all your Toyotas and send that money to Japan, you know, when you don't have a job to make your Toyota car payment, don't come crying to me," Welch says in the ad. "All those cars are rice ready. They're not road ready." Floyd Mori, executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League, said Welch's remarks evoke anti-Asian sentiments often aimed at Japanese and Chinese immigrants to the U.S. from the 1930s through World War II. He also noted many Japanese automakers' cars are manufactured in America. "It's a blatant, ignorant, racist remark from somebody who should know better," Mori said. Toyota spokesman Xavier Dominicis said the company's cars consistently receive high marks for quality. The automaker employs 36,600 Americans, he said, and about 60 percent of Toyota vehicles sold in the U.S. were manufactured here. "How do you tell a worker in Kentucky who's producing a Toyota that his job is worth less than another American autoworker's?" Dominicis said. The car dealer, though, said Tuesday he had received more positive calls than negative ones. His dealership sold 15 new cars Saturday — half of them to people drawn to the lot by the ad, he said. Welch said he's mostly mad at politicians, blasting them in his ad as only being good for "slinging mud and spending our tax dollars." He said the government should offer tax incentives for consumers to buy new cars rather than spend money bailing out Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. |
| _________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 1:24am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""] This thread is relevant to New England metal and hardcore. |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 2:53am - zyklon ""] Yeah it is |
| ____________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:21am - FuckIsMySignature ""] maybe if Ford made better cars i wouldnt have to buy a toyota. |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:49am - dftg ""] maybe if people bought new england metal and hardcore instead of japan metal and hardcore, they'd have jobs |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:51am - arilliusbm ""] don't call japanese hardcore japcore |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:51am - dftg ""] [YOUTUBE=_b5byorIUn4&] |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:53am - dftg ""] bennyhillifier |
| ____________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:54am - FuckIsMySignature ""] haha japcore |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 10:54am - dftg ""] [img] |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 11:06am - dftg ""] ignorance kicks ass |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 11:15am - arilliusbm ""] The demise of the American auto market is primarily due to our reliance and trust on SUV models rather than small coupes or family cars. SUVs were popular far too long in this country. It's really as simple as that. The big 3 failed to change their focus 10 years ago. This guy is just pissed off because he knows he fucked up. |
| __________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 11:19am - metal_church101 ""] Sending out money over to japan? Maybe some of it. A good portion of Toyotas and other traditional japanese imports are assembled in the US. Also, doesn't FORD stand for Fucker Only Runs Downhill? |
| ______________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 11:30am - anothermetaldrummer ""] I actually work for a Honda dealership, and a good portion of Honda's are manufactured in USA. It just sucks that the American automakers make such terrible cars. |
| ____________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 11:40am - dreadkill ""] arilliusbm said:don't call japanese hardcore japcorenice |
| _________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 11:46am - gRAWg ""] [img] |
| ________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 12:37pm - dftg ""] HA! |
| ______________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 12:40pm - anothermetaldrummer ""] Thats fucking awseome! |
| __________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 12:43pm - oscarct ""] hahaha |
| ______________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 12:54pm - anothermetaldrummer ""] http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l10/InsaneMotoGirl86/FordLogo.jpg |
| ______________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 12:55pm - anothermetaldrummer ""] [img] |
| ______________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 12:59pm - anothermetaldrummer ""] [img][/IMG] Did someone say Ford? |
| _____________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 1:00pm - anothermetaldrummer ""] [img] |
| ___________________________________________ [Dec 10,2008 1:04pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] GET OFF MY BAILOUT |