05-12-2014, 12:45 PM
Got curious and did a quick search on the Aston Martin OP ad -- it's a fake that went viral.
What appears to be a woman IS actually a wigged Filipino boy.
Okay, not really -- it's a pic plucked straight outta German Playboy which the prankster Photoshopped to create the phony car ad. This the Dutch model in the OP photo.
![[Image: full.jpg]](https://a1-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/8/3cebe543ff1c48b7870d597a5ef23241/full.jpg)
What did surprise me is that BMW used the actual caption/message, though a much tamer photo, in a 2008 ad for their Premium Selection pre-owned vehicles.
Here's the real ad.
![[Image: qUZ0jyiGPbhphxm2SyJSFOIQ_500.jpg]](https://media.tumblr.com/qUZ0jyiGPbhphxm2SyJSFOIQ_500.jpg)
So, maybe it did appeal to more than a small minority of luxury car purchasers and the general population after all? I don't know whether that ad campaign paid off or not.
What appears to be a woman IS actually a wigged Filipino boy.
Okay, not really -- it's a pic plucked straight outta German Playboy which the prankster Photoshopped to create the phony car ad. This the Dutch model in the OP photo.
What did surprise me is that BMW used the actual caption/message, though a much tamer photo, in a 2008 ad for their Premium Selection pre-owned vehicles.
Here's the real ad.
So, maybe it did appeal to more than a small minority of luxury car purchasers and the general population after all? I don't know whether that ad campaign paid off or not.