Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Ad Nauseam

Ad Nauseam Double Feature: Safe Subaru vs. Deadly Dodge

By Brad Aaron | Mar 25, 2011 | No Comments

If you’ve been watching the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, which resumes tonight, you’ve probably seen this Subaru spot, called “Baby Driver.” In it, a distressed father leans into the passenger side window, imploring his preschool-age daughter to be careful on the road — stay off the freeways, put the phone away — to the point […]

Ad Nauseum: Joggers and Cyclists Get Out of the Way!

By Damien Newton | Jan 10, 2011 | 9 Comments

Via the website Girl Bike Love comes one of the more depressing automobile advertisements we’ve seen recently. Used car resale dealership Tyme Auto Group, proudly serving Northern Ohio and Michigan, proudly offers a discount to any jogger or cyclist who promises to stay off the road the author is driving on (sic). It’s hardly uncommon […]

Ad Nauseam 2010: The Year in Car Commercials

By Anne Lutz Fernandez and Catherine Lutz | Dec 14, 2010 | No Comments

Car sales are up, auto shows are packing them in, and the GM IPO was oversubscribed, but there may be no surer indicator of the auto industry’s recovery than the renewed avalanche of car ads rumbling across every medium. And there’s no better way to get a glimpse of what a born-again car culture might […]

Tonight’s Coverage of Critical Mass Brought to You By…

By Damien Newton | Jun 28, 2010 | 6 Comments

Not that I’m going to complain about NBC’s coverage of bicycling issues, in addition to three stories about Critical Mass they’re also the only station to have covered Sharrows; but couldn’t we have given the car advertisements a rest for one story?

Ad Nauseam: Holy Rollover Risk, Batmom!!

By Brad Aaron | Apr 19, 2010 | No Comments

Lexus has suspended sales of its GX 460 after Consumer Reports issued a "don’t buy" warning earlier this week. Apparently the luxury SUV’s electronic "stability control" system can fail to correct drivers taking turns too quickly, resulting in a rollover risk. Times car blog Wheels reports: Mr. Champion [Consumer Reports auto testing director] said that […]

“Ad-Nauseum”: Audi Takes Greenwashing to the Next Level

By Damien Newton | Feb 9, 2010 | 21 Comments

Picture a future where a smiling multi-racial police force, who apparently answers to nobody, moves unchecked through society arresting and detaining people for offenses to the environment. Use plastic bags at the grocers? You’re arrested, frisked, and handcuffed before being frog marched from the store. Set your hot tub at too high a temperature? You’re […]

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