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With Los Angeles gas prices insanely high and my DD SUV in need of a fill-up (which still cost me $6/gallon, and over $90 for a full tank) I took my car to one of the budget gas stations nearby. Hoodlums have scratched up every surface of the pump, but I could make out a stylized animated C4 (with wheels that, no doubt, purposefully evoke the MBZ 3-pointed star) as the exemplar car that comes up on the screen while pumping gas. Intersting choice.
That's been around several years, glad to see they have not retired it yet. I can't remember what brand gas it was at but I took a pic at the time. Think I purged it from the phone one of the times when the "low storage space" alarms were going off.
I finally found my pic, it shows a little more clearly. Taken 10-15-2019 somewhere in Ohio in route to our granddaughter's wedding. I can't recall what brand of gas it was. Possibly BP?
I saw it on a road trip at a BP station in Ohio last summer. I didn't notice it, but for just a second after I returned the nozzle, and it reverted back to the welcome screen, so of course, I had to restart the pump to be sure what I was seeing.
I first saw reports of it around 2010. I think the "wheels" and the park light fog light treatment are to avoid copyright infringement for being too close to a Chevrolet Corvette. GM is really protective of their copyrights.
Summer of 2024 on my cross country road trip I saw it in Missouri. I was in the red 92. Ya'll may find this pic amusing.
Look closely at the screen on the pump. What are the odds of the same car in the same color as in the image actually pulling up and putting the nozzle in the filler?
Here's the shot I took of the pump's screen.
I just noticed this thread is 3 years old and got bumped by the guy with tri-spoke wheels who wandered into it on his first post. Yeah, ok.
I first saw reports of it around 2010. I think the "wheels" and the park light fog light treatment are to avoid copyright infringement for being too close to a Chevrolet Corvette. GM is really protective of their copyrights.
Summer of 2024 on my cross country road trip I saw it in Missouri. I was in the red 92. Ya'll may find this pic amusing.
I just noticed this thread is 3 years old and got bumped by the guy with tri-spoke wheels who wandered into it on his first post. Yeah, ok.
That's ok, I found it amusing.
There's a local station that uses the same image on their pumps, and another that uses a 70 Camaro.
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(Animated) C4 at the pump
