Australia is quite possibly one of the most stuck up and prudish countries in the world. We are descendants of English heritage, but even people in England people aren’t this stuck up. Australia likes to market itself as a laid back country with a vast amount of opportunities, but the only opportunity you get here is either be killed, beaten and robbed, scrutinised, arrested or fined for some stupid reason.
BMW Loves To Promote It's Cars To Hoons; Who can't afford to even buy a BMW.
Recently Australia’s advertising watchdog banned a BMW TV commercial because it promoted ‘hoon driving‘.
The ad I speak of is where a BMW is driving in a warehouse creating an artwork on the floor with paint, the car is notably spinning it’s wheels and performing all kinds of driving manoeuvres which are deemed illegal. But are people that stupid that they can’t tell the difference between television and reality? Would this advertisement really make someone get into their car and mimic the stunts on the streets? I highly doubt it.
I find it highly ironic that in Australia we allow television advertisements for alcohol to be shown, but not a car advertisement that merely shows a car doing manoeuvres – in a warehouse, quite clearly not on the road.
This honestly is just the icing on the political correctness cake. Australia appears to be showing an apparent transition into communism, could it be Kevin Rudd’s obsession with China is finally rubbing off onto the Australian way of life? First an Internet filter list, no R18+ game rating system and banning a car advertisement which is more like art than promoting dangerous driving.
What’s next; will Top Gear Australia and Top Gear UK be banned because they promote hoon driving with their speeding, illegal driving manoeuvres shown on the television show? Wouldn’t surprise me. And also, since when do hoons drive BMW’s? Not to mention, since when a hoon even open up a can of paint anyway?
Check out the ad here and give your opinion: http://www.bmw.com.au/com/en/newvehicles/z4/z4/2009/introduction.html
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