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Leave the car dolls alone!

Posted by Uncle Mark | April 20, 2009 | In contributing editors humor

Following up on rightpedal’s visit to the press preview days at the 2009 New York Auto Show, I was shocked to read the article in The New York Times about visitors heckling the poor product presenters at the show.

Take it from me, it’s very hard to come across as more than a polished floozy talking about cars when you are forced to wear four-inch stilettos and ‘executress’ style business suits. I can’t even remember the name of the beautiful lady at the Cadillac stand was wearing a black leather trousers-and-top combo while talking me through all the features of the car….but she’s a serious contender to be the future Mrs. Uncle Mark … so I say lay off the car dollies!

The people showing off the cars at the New York show, as well as at all the others around the US and abroad are not the ones who, consistently over the last couple of decades, have missed the opportunity to modernize their operations or build practical cars that people actually want to buy and drive. These are not the people who have made the poor decisions that leave their firms in such perilous financial states that hundreds of billions of tax payers’ money around the world will be required to bail them out, nor are they the people responsible for the awful repercussions on auto workers and the honest, hard-working blue collar people reliant on the motor industry in order to feed their families and keep a roof over their head.

So, if you are going to a motor show this year, spare those lovely men and women a thought and be nice to them. If you have to attack anyone, make your target the muppets that ran / run the companies that these people trying to make a living have to represent.

Love,
Uncle Mark

[For more coverage from the 2009 New York Auto Show, check out the rightpedal video roundup.]

1 Comment(s)

Mark | posted 1 year, 3 months ago

So Uncle Mark, I take it from your quote:

"Take it from me, it’s very hard to come across as more than a polished floozy talking about cars when you are forced to wear four-inch stilettos and ‘executress’ style business suits."

... that you often wear four-inch stilettos? Doesn't that get in the way of your heal-and-toe gear changes?