Maybe you don't and that's cool, but you benefit from the celeb status. The 300, especially the SRT8 will seem more exclusive, maintain more value and be more sought after if it is deemed cool and hot and something that is in and fashionable. This car has celebrity status and that's a good thing - if not the car would just be transportation and utilitarion.
Without the world class exposure and celebrity status the 300 may be considered mundane and worse of all insignificant. If I wanted insignicant I would buy a Ford Taurus or Chevy Malibu and just blend in. I like the passion behind the 300 and the celeb status helps.
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Maybe you don't and that's cool, but you benefit from the celeb status. The 300 will be more valuable, maintain more value and be more sought after if it is deemed cool and hot and something that is in and fashionable. This car has celebrity status and that's a good thing - if not the car would just be transportation and utilitarion.
Without the world class exposure and celebrity status the 300 may be considered mundane and worse of all insignificant. If I wanted insignicant I would buy a Ford Taurus or Chevy Malibu and just blend in. I like the passion behind the 300 and the celeb status helps.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, but "I" would STILL think its a cool, and wicked car, even if "celebrities" hated it...which is essentially, ALL that matters. I don't think you seem to understand that ascertion...which is the basis of my point.
Cool is cool...and no feeble minded celebrity is going to change that. ONLY those who are influenced, and impressed with "celebrity" and their "cribs" or whatever else fascinates weak minded people, care about such crap
Be content with what you buy, and own, because YOU love it...not because of an insanely bizzare worship of "celebrity" in this world.
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, but "I" would STILL think its a cool, and wicked car, even if "celebrities" hated it...which is essentially, ALL that matters. I don't think you seem to understand that ascertion...which is the basis of my point.
Cool is cool...and no feeble minded celebrity is going to change that. ONLY those who are influenced, and impressed with "celebrity" and their "cribs" or whatever else fascinates weak minded people, care about such crap
Be content with what you buy, and own, because YOU love it...not because of an insanely bizzare worship of "celebrity" in this world.
I read an article where Cadillac consulted the "celebrity" world and past owners for ideas about that 2007 Escalade you are driving.
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During the design process, says Mary Sipes, vehicle line manager for all GM full-size SUVs, "we asked our customers, 'Is this a tasteful amount of bling?'"
So while most of us don't pick a vehicle just because celebrities like it, lets understand that what they like and want is catered to by brand-aware companies and those companies assume (rightly or wrongly) that the general public will like it too. Cool is cool, I agree. But, does our 300 look so similar to a Bentley because Bentleys are inheriently cool? Or are Bentley's cool because they cost $180,000+? Are they cool because celebs & athletes drive them?
I was in the parking lot of a local resturant and one of our local professional athletes saw me getting in my car. He came over, asked what kind it was and how fast it goes. A couple weeks later I a video clip of him arriving at the stadium in an SRT. Did it make me love my car anymore...not necessarily...but friends of mine who might not have thought my car was that cool, after seeing the same video clip, think it's a little bit cooler.
I care and anyone who loves SRTs should care as well. The more exposure they receive means more people will be interested in buying them. More sales means DCX will continue to make SRTs. Sure, my SRT might be more valuable in 50 years if only 2000 people buy it, but I'm not keeping it that long. I want a newer, better, and faster SRT8 to be available in a few years when my current one has too many miles.
I didn't send out the link because I think that dude is such a cool guy. I've never even heard of him. The point was that the SRT8 made it into a magazine.
I care and anyone who loves SRTs should care as well. The more exposure they receive means more people will be interested in buying them. More sales means DCX will continue to make SRTs. Sure, my SRT might be more valuable in 50 years if only 2000 people buy it, but I'm not keeping it that long. I want a newer, better, and faster SRT8 to be available in a few years when my current one has too many miles.
I didn't send out the link because I think that dude is such a cool guy. I've never even heard of him. The point was that the SRT8 made it into a magazine.
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