Fwd: Land Rover does the Mini Ute

[Chris Dyer]

The Freelander. Have been available for a few months now; many ads on TV.
"HEY, more sport utes!" Zzzzz...


>From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Land Rover does the Mini Ute
>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:56:32 -0500
>
>So I'm driving through Auburndale with a friend and he notices a land
>rover on the other side.  "Bleeeech."
>
>"What was it?"
>
>"It said Land Rover on the hood, and it was ass-ugly."
>
>I look in the back mirror quickly, see what looks like a RAV4 from
>the back, save that the driver hits the brakes and I see 2 sets of
>lights a la Discovery.
>
>Hmm.  Odd.  Must be a new model.
>
>So I drop him off, and I'm on my way back.  I'm entering Auburndale
>and see another.  He's right, blech.  Hmm, must have been at the
>supermarket.
>
>I round the corner.  There's another.
>
>Waaaaaaiiit a sec.  This smells of a PR stunt.
>
>Sure enough, there's a third.
>
>The fourth is pulled into the gas station, surrounded by studio
>lights, some 18 year old ditzy blond in it, talking to what has to be
>the cleanest-shaven, best-dressed gas attendant I've ever seen set
>foot on the place in maybe 10 years(ie, actor, duh.)  The place is
>totally empty save these yutzes.
>
>The sad thing is that you could take a RAV4, slap 10 cent letters
>from the local hardware store on the hood, and add a pair of brake
>lights on the back, and presto!  New Land Rover Mini Ute.
>
>Bleeeech.  Why can't they make more Defenders* or something?
>
>Brett
>*preferably with the you-know-who-in-passenger-seat option
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