I wrote, called, and faxed. Why not... someone has to send the message that we are intellegant and this level of sensorship is not needed or invited.

Where are the non-profits that have the purpose of snuffing out non-profits that are oppresive??

 

We as a group need to send an endorsed letter to GM and let them know how we feel as a group. Also to miss hiway saftey.
We have as much or more clout with Gm than they do we buy there product!
Emailed all gm souces i could find and there office at traffic unsafe.

 

Judith Lee Stone, President
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety
750 1st St. N.E. Suite 901
Washington, DC 20002-8007
202-408-1711
202-408-1699 fax
advocates@saferoads.org
http://www.saferoads.org/


Janette Fennell, Founder and President
Kids And Cars
2641 W. 118th Terrace
Leawood, KS 66211-3042
913-327-0013
913-327-0014 fax
janette@kidsandcars.org
http://www.kidsandcars.org/


Jack Gillis, Director of Public Affairs
Consumer Federation of America
1424 16th St. N.W. Suite 604
Washington, DC 20036-2239
202-387-6121
202-265-7989 fax
cfa@consumerfed.org
http://www.consumerfed.org/


Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director
Center for Auto Safety
1825 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Suite 330
Washington, DC 20009-5708
202-328-7700
202-387-0140 fax
http://www.autosafety.org/


Andrew McGuire, Executive Director
Trauma Foundation
SF General Hospital
1001 Potrero Ave.
Bldg. 1 Room 300
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-821-8209
415-821-8202 fax
tf@tf.org
http://www.tf.org/


Sally Greenberg, Senior Product Safety Counsel
Consumers Union
1666 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Suite 310
Washington, DC 20009-1039
202-462-6262
202-265-9548 fax
greesa@consumer.org
http://www.consumersunion.org/


Joan Claybrook, President
Public Citizen
1600 20th St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
202-588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/

 

The Forum is the first time I have seen the entire commercial from start to finish. I kept catching the tail end on TV.

IT IS WONDERFUL!!!!! What an advertisement for our favorite car!!!!!

Now I am just sick to hear it has been killed by a small group of MORONS!!!!!! Basicly the same bunch of idiots that want to take my guns.

GOLD72

 

My 2 cents.

Ms. Stone,
I am appalled and ashamed to find that your organization is roaming around here in Illinois.
The Corvette commercial's title is, "A Boy's DREAM". I'm am glad and most grateful, that you and the type of thinking you represent, WERE NOT around when I was 11 or 12 to deprive me of MY DREAM of owning a Corvette. I purchased mine in 2003, a dream realized.
If you and your organization are going to protest the GM Corvette commercial for the reasons you state. Then you must call for the banning of all auto racing, all movies with car stunts, all cop and crime shows, and anything else that depicts an automobile doing anything but going 55mph in a straight line, FROM ALL MEDIA.
I would also like to note, that to me, you have stepped outside your own mission statement:
"Mission
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is an alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies and agents working together to make America's roads safer. Advocates encourages the adoption of federal and state laws, policies and programs that save lives and reduce injuries. By joining its resources with others, Advocates helps build coalitions to increase participation of a wide array of groups in public policy initiatives which advance highway and auto safety."
The above statement from your site does not mention, "Police Of All Media".
I think you efforts and energies would be better served if you would bring all your resources, and pressure, to bear on Federal, State, and Local institutions, to provide MORE FUNDS for DRIVER EDUCATION.
Retract your statements and, let "A Boy Dream". The dream is much more than driving fast, it's a dream about a LIFESTYLE.
Many Corvette owners have been waiting a LONG time to see this commercial. You came along and without thinking, jumped up and spoiled the celebration. Why didn't you surface when BMW was racing through the streets last year? Why didn't you complain about the GM GTO ads?
Go to www.corvetteforum.com and find out for yourself what type of people own and drive Corvettes. I'm sure you will change your opinion.

Signed real name.

Sly

 

A couple of e-mails to NBC wouldn't hurt either.

Sly

 

I called her
She answered.
I got this buy calling her office after hours it is on there answering machine.
Check it out

 

... Will do. I had one of my employees writing letters and sending faxes today... ... It was a slow day.

 

Complaining to the "advocates" won't do much. Most of these groups have functioning outputs, but their inputs are broken.

I sent the following to GM:

I own a 1999 Corvette and a 2003 Silverado. My daughter just bought a 2004 Aveo. I plan to buy a new Corvette in the next couple of years. I have been very impressed by the REVOLUTION add campaign and I especially liked the “Boy’s Dream” Corvette commercial. The slick directing by Guy Ritchie brought some much-needed sizzle to the campaign. If you log onto https://www.corvetteforum.com you will see the outrage of the Corvette faithful for GM’s decision to pull the add.
I have a suggestion for GM to revive the add tongue-in-cheek: If you replace the boy with a middle age man and the girl with a cute model you could re-title the add – “Mid-life Dreams.”

 

GM made a stupid decision pulling the adds. They should have let the protest build and build with these liberal leftists elitists. It is their mission in life to "tell us what to think because we're to dumb to figure out". They also know how better to spend our money, that's why we should pay more taxes, but that's a whole other topic.

Anyway, the refusal to pull the add could generate more and more controversy and publicity for the C6 and thus increased sales. GM should grow a pair and put the add back on....it's good business! 99% of GM's target buyers love the add, so they should tell these 1% winey holier-than-thou liberals to pound sand!

 

The way to get the attention of these twits, is to find out who funds them. Any non-profit is dependent on donations. Find out where the big donations are and contact those companies and let them know you won't patronize them due to their funding of these objectionable NPOs. A simple, polite letter WILL get attention.

I ran into this with fax spammers - they were trying to use charities as an end run on the law. The swift response and appolgy from the president of the charity after I contacted their 2 biggest corporate sponsors with complaints was quite gratifying.

 

That sounds like fun!

New member, first post, no actual plans to get a corvette but I almost fall into the age catagory for the kid in the commercial

 

 

email sent
"In response to your protest of the Corvette commercial, I believe that You may be more immature than the young man who is depicted driving the car.
Republican,
Phillip Parker"

 

I wanted to write to you with respect to your actions with Chevrolet and their recent Corvette marketing plan. Although your initial reaction is that the ad does portray the underage driver performing a variety of dangerous acts, your desire to alert the public to safety concerns has apparently overridden your common sense. Being a retired Nuclear Power Plant Operator for the United States Navy, I can appreciate the necessity for a safety culture and a healthy process improvement. However, the ad did state that "this was a dream, by no means attempt" and I have enough confidence that fellow drivers would know that attempting to jump bridges, do a barrel roll in a sewer pipe or give a high powered sports car to an 11 year old would be, oh... "a bad idea"

I personally felt that the ad was refreshing in it's concept and quite worthy of a Cleo award. When compared to most car ads that proclaimed "exhibition of performance" this ad struck an entirely different nerve. By showing a youth driving the car as only can be driven by a week day afternoon cartoon character (you did know that kids on average watch about 5 hours per week of shows depicting this very behavior, didn't you?), the ad sparked an inner smile. The viewer would be inclined to remember past day dreams full of "wouldn't it be cool" that have been replaced with real world experiences. Nowhere in that ad would anyone with an IQ over that of a warm steak think that it is acceptable to do those acts. But I guess your organization chose to do otherwise.

Since you are on the crusade for the safety of my family could you look into Volkswagen, Toyota, and Ford as they too have advertising chock full of unsafe behavior. Also, I live in California and the Democratic Legislature seems to have this absurd idea that giving a drivers license to illegal immigrants (State Bill AB 60) would be a good idea. I think that would have the potential to cause a lot more damage than a Chevy ad...

Chris Johnson
Triumph Sports Car Club of San Diego

 

I sure as heck hope Lockheed Martin doesn't create a marketing piece entitled "Boy's Dream" showing a 12 year old boy flying an F-22. Can you imagine what would happen if a 12 year old were actually flying in an F-22 over a populated area? Shocking to think of it. Thank heavens there are groups like this to keep us safe from ourselves.

Doc