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The True Cast – Enough is enough. Please, no more trucks in rivers.
Over the past several years, trying to convince automakers to stop marketing their trucks and SUVs with ads, brochures, social media campaigns and the like that depict those vehicles splashing through rivers has been a Sisyphean task. Like playing Whac-A-Mole, as soon as we address the issue with one company—some of them actually listen and…
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Nissan blasts through a trout stream in its new truck ad
A screen grab from Nissan's ad featuring its new Frontier. We're not impressed. Several years ago, Jeep ran a dumb ad on Super Bowl Sunday showing a truck running up the middle of a creek. My then 8-year-old son asked, “Isn’t that bad for the stream?” Earlier this year, Ford pulled the same stunt. And…
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