Miata Mailing List: April 1994, Message #9
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   From: "Kate W. Hughes 607/974-3861" 
Subject: Miata Ads
   Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 10:46:22 -0500

    
    >From: David Dunham 
    >Subject: Re: advertising
    >Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 14:38:02 -0500
    >
    >>From: buck@claude.ma30.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck)
    >>cars like the RX7 and Miata hit a limited market and tend to sell
    >>themselves anyway
    >
    >True enough -- I've never seen an ad for a Miata.
    
    Don't you remember those ones with the three young yuppies playing in 
    the (?) Porsche?  They're washing it, I think, and goofing around and 
    eating apples.  And how this new Miata is a car that takes you back to 
    the spirit of the true roadster (and all the meaningful yuppie fun you 
    can have when you own it)
    
    I have a poster of this ad 
    
    
    
    Oh, and I have to say something about being guaranteed (or even high 
    odds, or even even odds!) not to get a ticket because you're female.  
    NOT!!!  Ride around with me for a while, in my reassuring, brotherhood 
    blue car, and I can exhibit how Roy seems to be using me to disprove 
    that Cops are nicer to women (or people in blue cars!)  I'm nice, I'm 
    respectful, I say "sir"!!
    	I'm going to start using my friend Pete's tactic; just start right 
    in! "Oh, great.  No, just write me the ticket.  I was speeding, wasn't 
    I?  It's just one more fitting thing in a rotten f***ing day.  This 
    just caps it off.  Par for the course.  I deserve it!  Now I've gotten 
    myself a ticket, to boot.  Of _course_ it's my fault.  Everything else 
    was, too.  After this I'm going home to sit in the dark and calculate 
    the odds of every rotten thing happening in one miserable day.  Oh, 
    you're just giving me a warning?  Well, I'll be.  Wow.  _thanks_, sir."
    	I am _astounded_ at what he gets away with using this tactic, 
    although he did get a ticket for 110 in a 55 somewhere in Nevada.