Bottom Line - Mercedes apologizes for using Che Guevara image

Yes Virginia, It's not the same company anymore.

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It's a car not a science experiment! Open the throttle!

Coulda been worse. They could have gone with this pic:

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Yeah, Hitler is what they wanted to use, but floated a ballon with Che.

"Lets see how that goes over!"

Gotta love 'em.

Should've used this:
Hermann Goering's Mercedes - VI CORPS COMBAT ENGINEERS WWII

Advertising people stay up late trying to figure the angle that will grab the public's attention. Sometimes they hit it big, like with 'the most interesting man in the world' series of ads for Dos Equis, other times, not so much.

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