"When manufacturers try to create the glories of their past, the results are often surprising. The Jaguar F-type is, for example, not quite destined to be the enduring classic of automotive history as is the E-Type it reflects - but "
Man Up!
It’s been a while since we’ve shared some car marketing beastliness. Being aficionados of the excesses of the 1970s, we’re used to seeing less than subtle brand messages emanating from the auto ad men.
But this example has to take the biscuit. Rendered in the boldest type of monochrome machismo the example above is all about unreconstructed association between motor and manhood. Bold type. Brutal Lines.
In contrast, the colourful illustrative approach reaches out more to the thinking man: though talk of tech details, Hirst shifters and the inclusion of a supposedly swooning girlfriend hints still at where this stuff is pitched.
Firmly, in other words, toward the groin area.
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i am sure there was an option on these for the 429 hemi,as in the boss 429 mustang..it was marketed at 375 hp (insurance,i believe,had became mandatory in the states at around that time) but some sources had it at 500 plus like the plymouth 426 hemi.