Ruger Dodge RAM - attempted atonement?

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Jan 2002 -

Chrysler Corp. ran a TV ad for Jeep showing 2 jeeps driving deer away from hunters.
Hunters all over the country lambasted Chrysler over the ad, and it was pulled.

March 2006 -
Chrysler Corp. brings out a Ruger edition pickup?

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=204184

(sorry for the link to a locked thread)

Makes ya wonder exactly what side Chrysler is on?
 
I’m curious how the Ruger Ram was off topic? It is/was gun related.
Ruger is a firearm manufacturer and the truck has the Ruger name and emblem on the truck thus establishing an association with firearms. Wouldn’t an association with firearms make it “gun related”?
 
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The thread is about a vehicle with a firearm manufacturers logo affixed in various locations. In no way is this about "firearms" per se.

Unless the discussion turns on to the neat gun "vault" system in the bed of the truck - marketed for storing firearms securely - I expect this to be closed as well!

Nice lookin' truck through.

The gun storage in the bed of the truck is an advertisement for: "Come take my truck, it's packed with guns!" -- bad idea in my opinion.
 
I dont see how the Ruger Doge Ram is any more off topic then a thread about clothing with firearms on them. I think its related and that is why I posted it.

I thought it was interesting that Dodge would participate in something firearm
related like that truck. I guess a truck sporting firearm gear (the bed) and a popular gun company name on the truck is not firearm related.

Anyone have a link to the commercial?
 
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I’m curious how the Ruger Ram was off topic? It is/was gun related.

Ruger is a firearm manufacturer and the truck has the Ruger name and emblem on the truck thus establishing an association with firearms. Wouldn’t an association with firearms make it “gun related”?
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westphoenix:
I dont see how the Ruger Doge Ram is any more off topic then a thread about clothing with firearms on them. I think its related and that is why I posted it.

I thought it was interesting that Dodge would participate in something firearm
related like that truck. I guess a truck sporting firearm gear (the bed) and a popular gun company name on the truck is not firearm related.

Anyone have a link to the commercial?
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If you guys don't understand what firearms related means then all I can say is, there are some things you need to figure out for yourselves. A link to a pic or to the commercial would help, but. "It's got a picture of a gun on it." or, "It says Ruger on it." does not a firearms related thread make. If you want to discuss a pick up truck that has a nifty new badge, you have the wrong bulletin board. If you want to discuss the politics of Chrysler corporation making an advertisement that seems anti-hunter, then that's a different matter.

Off to L&P for this one.
 
Attempted attonement?

Hell no. These clowns would sell their mothers... if they had mothers.

This is nothing more than attempted bottom line padding.
 
Bottom line is pretty much what I figured.
I wanted to kinda give them the benefit of the doubt tough, even though I can't stand Chrysler products (owed 3 - loved the old '66 Dart, liked the '69 Coronet, hated the '84 Charger).

I just can't stand it though when a company says one thing with an ad, then turns around later and does the opposite - like they feel we should forgive/forget/fork-over our money.


- side note -
Chill guys huh?
It's probably my fault for not thinking this all the way through.
I probably should have waited a week or so before posting, then wording it differently and dropped the link to the other thread.
 
Chrysler sells out to a German company and Ruger gets all the protest? Nothing like a quality German truck though, right? Just what every red-blooded American wants. Maybe they should have put a Mercedes badge on it instead. ;) Anybody driving one of these foreign-owned trucks? Are they any good since Chrysler sold out?

John
 
If you guys don't understand what firearms related means then all I can say is, there are some things you need to figure out for yourselves.
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Unfortunately, sensop, I don't think that won't work - you will have to define it explicitly for us. Because if I figure it out for myself, then I conclude that:

1. A thread about a Ruger truck IS gun-related.
2. The current threads on death penalty, president bush, and 2 or 3 dozen other topics most certainly are NOT gun-related.

So a *definition* is definitely in order, seems to me. :p And perhaps the definition of gun-related is different for L&P than it is for General....if so, that's fine, we just need to know the 2 definitions.
 
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If you guys don't understand what firearms related means then all I can say is, there are some things you need to figure out for yourselves. A link to a pic or to the commercial would help, but. "It's got a picture of a gun on it." or, "It says Ruger on it." does not a firearms related thread make.
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The locked thread was posted in a general discussion area, I would have thought it was a perfectly acceptable conversation. I've noticed a lot of the moderators here unnecessarily lock threads. I've moderated several busy forums, keeping your staff uniform means having a hammered out policy and adhering to it, moderation 101.
 
*sigh*
I've asked to have this one locked down since it's drifted more to why the other thread was locked rather than why Chrysler feels hunters are so gullible.
 
Go here, and read the forum descriptions.

Closed at thread starter's request.

By the way, CyberSEAL and FirstFreedom, we don't take you to raise here, we just provide the forums for the discussions and then try to keep them from running amok. ;)
 
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