Hey! Is that a Hemi?

[oneighty]

"You're about to find out!"

And then the McJob guy comes out of his day dream, hands a bag of McPlastic food to the happy rich guy in the thirty thousand bucks or so Dodge Hemi cool truck.

Commercial makes me think. Really; there is something wrong with that picture. I cannot quite put my finger on it.

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[mmm]

1. I agree, the hubris is astounding. It appeals to repugs...

and repug wanabees.

[ZenLefty]

2. As an avid hater of dodge commercials...

(I know. Hate is a strong word. That's why I'm using it.)

...that one is the funniest of the bunch. I especially like the cheerleaders.

But after dodge's arrogant commercial campaign, I'd rather push my volkswagen than drive one of their fucked up trucks.

[oneighty]

7. Hey! Mr. ZenLefty.

Where you been? Yes the cheerleaders are very likable.

180- Male chauvinist pig.

[ZenLefty]

10. Hey, Mr. 180

I've been around. :hi:

And I like those cheerleaders for their minds. They're people too, you know. :D

[oneighty]

24. Yes ZenLefty

Fine minds.

Hey, I was thinking about you and the monster creepy crawlers (hairy) there where you live as I wrote a Little totally ignored piece about caves and tunnels in Japan where the really, really giant man scaring centipedes live.

You still got those critters?

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[camero]

3. Here ya go Mr. Rich guy

Diabetes and stroke coming right up. I'll take your Hemi, thanks.

[LuLu550]

4. yeah, but if the guy is so rich

why is he eating the crap from the drive through burger place?????

[ZenLefty]

5. Yeah, I don't think rich-guy is all that rich

Seems pretty Average Joe to me.

And the kids, well, they seem like kids. Maybe when they grow up they'll get real jobs and be able to afford their dream truck. But not in bush's economy.

[camero]

6. I've seen rich people shopping at thrift stores

Cause they're too cheap to get any real clothes. You'd be surprised what forms greed comes in.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Hey! The Grumpy's own a Dodge with a Hemi and we are not

rich at all. It's my husband's work truck and we got it for waayyyy less than $30,000 on the employee program...even without the employee discount it would not have been $30,000. Please don't lump us in with snobbish happy rich people. We are backwoods, miserable, slightly higher than poor people...;)

[ZenLefty]

9. Sweeet.

[oneighty]

13. Whoops

180 not too thoughtful here.

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[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Free pass. I don't offend easily...if it were a Hummer commerical,

I'd be in total agreement.

Hugs,Laura

[oneighty]

16. Thanks Ms. Laura Mrs Grumpy!

I was gonna hug you too before but I thought it a bit forward, inappropriate. But now? (((((((hug)))))))

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[ZenLefty]

11. You know this guy has his own website.

http://www.jonreep.com/

[Wickerman]

14. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

smashing the bullhorn was the only cool thing in the commercials. :+

[Kellanved]

12. a car importer has one on display here

The Specs are rather interesting (really, that's what the paper behind the front window says):
...
- mileage : Trust me... you don't want to know.

...
Pros: No problems finding a parking space - there are none for this car.

...

[Shrek]

17. He's not necessarily rich

According to this article, the average sticker price of a new car now exceeds $30K. Ouch.

[trogdor]

22. The average sticker for Money readers is > $30K

The average sticker for everybody is more like $22K. This doesn't even count the people who don't buy new.

[curse10]

18. What the fuck is a hemi anyway?

:-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. It's a really big, really powerful, really loud engine. My husband

could explain all the excruciatingly boring details of it...but for me, this suffices. :hi:

[kmla]

20. It's a type of engine where the cylinder part, where the explosion

occurs is shaped in a hemispherical or "half-sphere" (thus hemi-shphere...). Looks like the lid of a "frozen Coke" that you can get at some 7-11 stores.

The typical engine cylinder is just that - a cylinder with a flat top, where the piston rides up and down. This is economical to pmanufacture, but in a pure physics and thermodynamic sense, it is not the most efficient way to extract the power from the internal explosion that makes your car run. In a hemispherical cylinder, the power is extracted during the explosion a little more efficiently, leading to more power from the same amount of gasoline.

This technology came to be in the 60's, during a revolution in design in stock cars. The hemi engine was so successful that it wound up being banned from stock car racing, because others could not compete. Same way with the turbine engine in Indy car/open wheel racing.

Did I confuse ya?

On edit - the ad campaign does what they hired it to do - we all know EXACTLY who makes the hemi (whether or not you love it or hate it - they want you to remember it). Egg-zackly what an ad company is hired for...

[GOPisEvil]

21. Let me try...

OK...in most cars, pistons reside in cylinders that are, well, cylindrical. In a hemi, the top end of the cylinder has a hemispherical (domed) top. This allows for a larger area for combustion to occur, hence making more power.

Clear like mud? :D

[ConcernedCanuk]

25. What is distiguishable is that the spark plugs are on TOP of the engine

.
.
And am I right, that only Chrysler made the hemi ?

Oh, and I actually owned one, a 392 in a 56 Chrysler if I remember right

Pics are not mine, just "found" them laying around in cyberspace --

392 hemi



Man . .

wasn't it nice when you could tell what kind of car it was by just LOOKING at it ?

[jmowreader]

26. NASCAR banned it...

because Richard Petty won 27 races (of 48 starts--they ran a lot more races then) in 1967 with a hemi engine in his car.

[NightTrain]

23. No, I'm just glad to see you!

:toast: