This year (when it comes to commercials for German products, I mean) is…
The series of all six commercials will form part of BMW’s national advertising campaign for the launch of its new 3 Series sport sedan, which goes on sale February 11.
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Dumb Americans buying big cars again
But some of them aren’t all that dumb because they are the ones buying the big German ones. That’s the essence of the article anyway.
Inexplicable, really. German intellectuals everywhere are aghast at the United States failing to do what it is supposed to do yet again. Despite Der Spiegel‘s recent pronouncemnt of the end of US-Amerika as we know it (in black and white and color too), US-Amerikaner are suddenly buying big fat politically correct automobiles as if there were no tomorrow.
Or maybe that is the explanation. Perhaps this is our last collective gasp as a nation before the whole culture (excuse me, I meant lack of culture) implodes with a tremendous groan and rolls over to die, I dunno, in Nevada or someplace. Everybody must sense instinctively that this will be our last chance to drive off into the sunset of our American oblivion in our monstrous ‘merican automobiles in hyper-heroic, High Noon style.
Or maybe… Maybe the experts at Der Spiegel (and experts in general) are just too stupid to poor piss out of a boot.
Der Autoabsatz in den USA boomt.
Speaking of German cars…
Americans sure like buying them – again. Germans aren’t all that interested in them anymore, though (no more cash-for-clunkers).
Orders abroad are up 22 percent in May compared to a year earlier – with China and the United States providing the demand. We’ve been through this before, haven’t we (and again and again)?
“Die Bedeutung des US-Marktes nimmt wieder zu.”
Car kitsch or what?
Boy are they ever making gaudy BMWs these days.
I want one.
The car is a BMW M3 GT2 racecar that will compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans from June 12-13.
Go west, German autombile companies!
Mit einem blauen Auge davongekommen (getting out of the econmic crisis with just a black eye), German automobile locust types now have their other eye clearly focused on US-Amerika and plan to produce even more of their fancy schmancy Germerican cars there.
Actually, they’ve been doing this quite some time already and doing it quite well, thank you. They’ve continually increased their share of the American Automobile Market Pie these past five years and now enjoy a healthy 7.3 percent piece of it. And believe it or not, the American auto market is still the biggest in the world, although I wouldn’t know why. Or you wouldn’t think so these days, I mean.
Or could it be that German auto makers just want to get the hell out of Germany because, I dunno, German workers are too expensive? Nah.
Die deutsche Autoindustrie sieht sich in den USA als Krisengewinner.
Volltreffer!
Talk about being right on the mark. Everybody is trying to get a piece of this new consumer incentive plan for old cars (Abwrackprämie) over here in Germany these days. The government shells out 2,500 euros to anybody who trades in his old wreck for a new, more environmentally friendly one, I mean new one. German consumer confidence is way up at the moment, primarily because of this.
But this is another one of those only-in-Germany kind of things, folks. The wreck you trade in here to get the money has to be at least nine years old! That’s right, nine (not nein). Only German cars live that long, of course, so it’s basically a subsidy for the German car industry. And they’re selling their smaller models like hotcakes at the moment, despite all of the economic doom.
By the way, you can’t trade the ones in you torch first, though, no matter how old they are.
„Die Verbraucher in Deutschland haben trotz der schwersten Rezession seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mehr Lust zum Einkaufen.“
Observing Hermann 