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Over in Brazil, Nissan found itself in hot water after one of their commercials directed at Ford drew the ire of the American automaker’s Brazilian arm. The music-video style parody commercial that Nissan released features two men representing Ford engineers, dressed to the absolute nines decked with gold chains, rings, and fur coats, while sipping champagne and flocked by a multitude of scantily-clad women. Oh, and if you didn’t notice, there’s also a Ford Focus in the background. Yep, a Ford Focus in a Nissan commercial. While the TV spot isn’t in English, the lyrics, when translated to Portuguese, translate to something like "All the luxury that I got, I got it with your money" and "Don’t weep because you’re paying extra money — your money was well spent, look what I do with it." Obviously, the whole commercial didn’t sit too well with Ford, who thought that Nissan was sending a message to consumers that the Focus is overpriced in Brazil compared to the Japanese automaker’s Tiida sub-compact (it’s called the Versa in our neck of the woods). While there’s some truth to it - the Tiida is actually cheaper by a little under $2,000 in Brazil compared to the Focus - Ford didn’t like the way Nissan portrayed their company. Ford’s lawsuit prompted Nissan to pull the television commercial, but apparently, not before the video found its way on the Internet. With the web being a lot more expansive and lenient than any form of medium these days, Ford’s going to have a hard time curtailing the showing of this Nissan ad. .
18 comments: Video: Nissan’s pointed commercial draws Ford’s ire Well, I think that’s a brilliant idea on the side of Nissan. But I can’t resist those beautiful and gorgeous ladies that’s been dancing all through the video. They’re freaking me out.
 Yeah, they have the largest recall over the years and I think it reached up to 7 million!However, although Ford doesn’t have impressive performance I think Nissan shouldn’t make such libelous video for Ford!
 It seems that the message of the video would be true. Just recently, I have find out Ford has the largest recall in the history! So, it seems that this car has a lot of bling though its parts is not that reliable!
 If ford is not good at all, then why there are still want this car? Actually the good production only for the Nissan is the GTR and nothing else!
 hmm. I think its kind of lame move for the Nissan to come up with a teaser video like this. Ford has been in the industry for so long and they were line up as luxury car. And they have already prove their reliability. So, I guess its enough to trust this brand.
 I must admit that I was initially laughing hard when I saw this commercial. But then I thought that this one might have indeed been to much of a jab against Ford.
 But then again, if you take away all these flashy ads, it would still end up with the question of which car performs much better in the eyes of the buyer. That, I think, would be the real competition.
 Well, that snowballing is starting now. Soon it is likely that Ford will release their own commercial directed at Nissan and this will go on and on.
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07.27.2011 @ 05:38