Audi's advertising mocked in Private Eye

[Geoff Jenkins <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>]

Apropos of nothing much,

It's probably a reference that'll only make sense to UK listers, but Audi made 
it into the current issue of Private Eye (for those beyond the sceptred isle, 
Private Eye is a much-sued satirical and political magazine that devotes itself 
to exposing or poking fun at the high and mighty). Among its regular features 
is a column called "Pseuds Corner" which contains clippings that the Eye sees 
as the worst of pseudo-intellectual meaningless bs. This fortnight's Pseuds 
Corner (Eye #947, p.13) features the following:

"Dear Mrs xxxxx

Thank you for choosing an Audi. You may not realise it, but when you drive one 
of our motorcars, you also experience something else just as unique and 
pleasurable: a philosophy."

All accompanied by a cartoon of a car with AUDI scrawled across it sailing by 
on ethereal clouds. Actually, the car and driver resemble Toad of Toad Hall 
from the Wind in the Willows more than anything else.

Still, at least our advertising rubbish sounded less pretentious than the Alfa 
Romeo 156's tail's "calculated ambiguity" quoted just below.

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