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Last week few radio stations got a mysterious envelope with a demo cd including a URL on it stated www.everyoneconnects.net .They started playing it on the air without knowing who the singer is. Just listening to the song it should be from the local scene. I knew it will be Bunkface singing this song but never expected the ads is from TM.Ini baru menarik untuk Gen-Y.
To an American, the sight draws a blank. All over Europe one sees cars, mostly from high-end companies, that wear no nameplates or model designations. Where we would expect to find a name tag of gleaming letters and numbers on the tail, there’s only an expanse of paint.
These nameless cars aren’t rare in Europe, either. If not in the majority, they are a sizable minority.
“They’re ordered from the factory that way,” said Christian Bokich, a spokesman for Audi of America. In Germany, the reasons may be cultural. “If a director of a medium-sized company purchases a V-12, he doesn’t want to show it to his colleagues and have people judge him incorrectly,” he said. The fear, he added, is that others might think, “‘You’re a jerk, you’re too rich, you have too nice a car.’”
Mr. Bokich said that while 25 percent of Audis were ordered with the “badge delete” option, the practice was more common with top models.
“It’s a very German thing to hide your wealth,” he said. Others may be trying to hide their lack of riches. In Munich a while back, a man driving an expensive BMW 650i — its badge proudly displayed — was asked why so many cars went badgeless. He answered, “So no one can tell if they bought the cheap or expensive model.”
How can you tell if you’re looking at a 6-cylinder BMW 525i or a 540i with a V-8? Is that an Audi A4 2.0 or the more powerful (and costly) 3.2? Over there, that could be a luxurious but not uncommon Mercedes S500 — or the top-of-the-line S65 AMG.
In some cases an automotive sleuth can discern the truth by following secondary clues like exhaust pipes, body trim, wheels and other styling cues. Of course, only the hardest-core gearheads carry around a mental encyclopedia of model characteristics. And secondary clues can be misleading, given that fancy wheels and sporty trim can be ordered even for base models — the equivalent of sewing an embroidered Polo pony onto a Gap shirt.
Will Europeans’ embrace of badgeless cars make its way across the Atlantic? It seems unlikely; unless the recession fundamentally changes the national psyche, Americans seem to prefer flaunting wealth, even if it’s only pretend-riches. Officials at BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi say they haven’t seen an uptick in requests for badgeless cars or post-sale label removal.
None of the companies offer a badge-delete option to American customers, but spokesmen for all three said the labels could be removed at dealerships.
In fact, Rob Moran, public relations manager for Mercedes-Benz USA, said it was more common for Americans to add badges. The results can be silly, like affixing an AMG label (signifying cars from Mercedes’s high-performance division) to an older C-Class that was never offered in AMG form. “Technically,” he said, “that car doesn’t exist.
p/s:I just read this from the new york times and pondering most Malaysians are not far difference from the Americans when it come to car.Hiding their lack of riches through brand power.
As women they tend to be very patient – too patient sometimes. They’ll wait and wait for the man they are dating to first utter those three words they long to hear ‘I love you’ followed by a close second ‘let’s get married.’
The problem is that some of them wait, and wait, and wait. Months, then years pass and the most they get from their guy is the occasional ‘you’re cool’ or ‘you’re a lot of fun.’ Futures aren’t built on fun alone.
There are easy ways to tell if your relationship is headed for something more substantial or if he’s considers you his girlfriend or in some cases girl friend.
If a man is even considering a deeper commitment with a woman, he’ll do at least one of the following:
OK enough for tonight.
