Comments on: Ad Nauseam: Toyota’s (Passive-Aggressive) Ransom Note to America

By: Redsnow

Redsnow — Fri, 06 May 2011 07:37:00 +0000

thnx for sharing

By: ramonchu

ramonchu — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:09:08 +0000

building the case…
this is the nickel mine the batteries begin their life at

http://www.sprol.com/2005/06/the-inco-mine-at-sudbury-ontario/comment-page-1/
http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2008/12/nickel_tailings_361.jpg

still nothing about parking structures…

By: ramonchu

ramonchu — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:03 +0000

will someone just sue toyota for this shit already, please

By: DJB

DJB — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:20:02 +0000

Hey, that neighborhood has no free off-street parking. You can’t build that anymore! I don’t know why we think of ourselves as living in small towns with main streets like in the video. We mostly live in giant suburban agglomerations punctuated by occasional malls of the regular and strip variety.

Cars are essential to most of our daily lives because we drank the low density Kool-Aid. Walkable neighborhoods make activists of us all, and un-walkable neighborhoods make us all Toyota customers (with a few exceptions).

By: ubrayj02

ubrayj02 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:19:28 +0000

Ah yes, “community”. As in, “the community despoiled by policies that support our products”.

You know, I’m glad that “the market” chose a United States that was ready for such a compassionate corporation to sell its good in. You know “the market”? The one paid for with Federal Highway Administration dollars, mortgage guarantees by Fannie Mae, and special tax decutions from the IRS for owning a suburban home and driving a large vehicle for “commercial” purposes (i.e. the realtor SUV rebate).

Funny, in that ad, I don’t see any cars parked on the street, nor do I see any mega-highways, nor strip malls – all the land uses that Toyota’s vehicles are made for. The car has been the death of traditional downtown areas all over the U.S. and the world. This commercial is an insane attempt to say “we are actually helping you guys in your traditional trade networks! (by removing your capital to our shareholders and disrupting your local markets with our subsidized transportation products)”.

No, I don’t blame Toyota – I just think this advertisement is dishonest and borders on propaganda.

By: Spokker

Spokker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:08:00 +0000

Well, Toyota is simply taking advantage of a situation we put ourselves in. Toyota didn’t make us dependent on cars. They started in a country where you could actually get around really well without one. So what did they do? They saw us.

So if their commercial is implying what you think it’s implying, they’re 100% right. Toyota isn’t going to change the world for us, we have to.