Welcome to the Hooniverse Classic Captions Post. This is a series of posts that are set to run this time each week, so let’s review the premise; I search for images that were used by the car companies in their print advertising or brochures, and it is your job to provide a humorous, snarky, or thought provoking caption that is some how tied in with the image. This week the image is taken from a GM experiment in marketing, conducted in Canada!
Last week, we had an image of a 1930’s Art Deco Styled Chrysler and we received the lowest number of responses since restarting this feature (What’s up with that?), but there were some great captions none-the-less. The first one is from Atomic Toasters contributor engineerd, who neatly combined one of the nations wealthiest families with the Great Depression: “After the stock market crash, the Vanderbilts tried so hard to feel the pain of their less-fortunate countrymen. Unfortunately, downgrading to a Chrysler and buying their children a new seesaw from the Sears catalog was not enough to convince people that they were “in touch”.” This was very well done, so congrats engineerd!
But it was newcomer Matador, who came up with a very witty line, and it went like this: “Bobby, Joan dear, please come in off the oil derrick before you get our wealth all over yourselves.” This was spot on, so congratulations Matador, and now is the time to set up an intense debate account, so the Hoons that populate this corner of the blogosphere can follow your witty repartee.
It’s now time to take a look at this weeks image. This is an advertising image for the 1991 Passport Isuzu Stylus that was marketed in Canada. It really was nothing more than a facelifted Isuzu I-Mark, or the more common Chevrolet Spectrum of the 80s. The image reinforces the stereotype that the Japanese seem to take pictures of anything with their expensive Japanese Cameras. What kind of image will any of these shutterbugs get so close to the car? Why is the car on a lighted plinth anyway? And the tagline of the advertisement is really meaningless: “We know what you really want”. I can bet that it isn’t an Isuzu Stylus, but what do I know? It’s now time for you to deduce the real meaning of this ad, and have fun doing so. (You can click here to see the full size image)
You have the next five days to come up with a great caption. The editors will deliberate entries, and after contemplating our own caption, we will pronounce a winner. So, get to work and create you’re own caption for this interesting image
Photo Credit: Alden Jewell’s Flickr Photostream
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