Take the Pledge

Before buying your wife a new cross-flow Cortina, make her repeat after you: I WILL see the housework's done before dashing off to show the girls my new Cortina's chic interior colour scheme. I WILL spend more time behind the wheel of my sewing machine than the padded wheel of my Cortina and running through my smooth automatic transmission. I WILL put up with washday blues before scenic views. I WON'T get parking tickets simply to draw attention to my new Cortina.



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"... we felt you might enjoy a different body styling for a change."

Anglia's lines are so well-known to rally-followers (and rally-driving Anglia-followers) we felt you might enjoy a different body styling for a change.



To go on, however, Anglia's rugged dependability and performance are equally recognized by rally fans.
It's highly economical, handles like a charm and looks every inch the talented, gutsy little bundle of going concern it is.
Actually, you'd be quite safe and happy if you bought it on its reputation alone.
But it's more fun to try it out, so see your Anglia dealer.
He has all the details.

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Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac

"Why do we work so hard? For what? For this (showing a large swimming pool in the back yard)? For stuff? Other countries, they work, they stroll home, the stop by the cafe, they take August off. Off! Why aren’t you like that? Why aren’t we like that? 
Because we’re crazy, driven, hard-working believers, that’s why. Those other countries think we’re nuts. Whatever. Were the Wright Brothers insane? Bill Gates, Les Paul, Ali? Were we nuts when we pointed to the moon? That’s right, we went up there and you know what we got? Bored. So we left. Got a car up there and we left the keys in it, do you know why? Because we’re the only ones going back up there, that’s why.
But I digress. You work hard, you create your own luck, and you gotta believe anything is possible. As for all the stuff. That’s the upside of only taking two weeks off in August. N’est-ce pas?" (via)



The most recent Cadillac commercial soon caused some controversy. Huffington Post described it as an ad about the American dream that became a nightmare, a parody of itself (via).
Cadillac, a division of General Motors Company, was founded in 1902 by Henry Leland who named the company after Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac (via). And Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac (1658-1730), happened to be French and by the way the founder of Detroit (via). Who knows, afer founding Detroit he probably took four weeks off. Not a bad idea. N'est-ce pas?
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Update from 14 April 2014

By the way, Ford responded with a parody starring Pasho Murray, founder of "Detroit Dirt", a company that is specialised on turning waste into compost and selling the latter to people who wish to create urban gardens. She ends with a different conclusion. "It's pretty simple. You work hard, you believe that anything is possible, and you try to make the world better. You try. As for helping the city grow good, green, healthy vegetables? That's the upside of giving a damn. N'est-ce pas?" (via)

Here is the clip: