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newVideoPlayer("Schmaltz_Aussie_Toyotas_476.flv", 463, 387,""); American automakers aren't the only ones who play the bechmaltzed patriotism card in their ads, nor even the only ones who break out the mawkish country music in those ads. Here Toyota is letting Australians see how loving their land is the same as loving their Toyotas . It's not quite Morning In America , but it's striving for the same lump-in-throat effect.
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newVideoPlayer("Holden_Ute_Evolution_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Given the current QOTD , it seems only right to have an Aussie-themed Bonus Classic Ad Watch today, so here ya go! This ad sort of reminds us of Robert Crumb's History of America , with its small towns evolving into McMansion-filled edge cities and tiny utes morphing into somewhat larger versions. But, by God, the Aussies never stopped making cars with truck beds, while Los Norteamericanos cruelly shunned the once-beloved El Camino and Ranchero.
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