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Old 10-09-2019, 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by mgarblik View Post
When the Infinity brand first launched, they ran an entire series of ads that did not picture a car and this was for a new brand! They owe a lot to Wangers for his groundbreaking ads of the 1960's. They were brilliant. BTW, Infinity took allot of heat from the automotive press for those ads. Trying to launch a brand without showing them the product. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIUAuW6vLk
Yes, and Infiniti never really got off the ground probably thanks to those ads. Remember they launched same time as Lexus and Lexus had, what, 10x the sales volume in the early days?