LAST AUTO NEWS – WIN A FREE FORD FIESTA! SORT OF.
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Do you acquire amplitude over your friends’ decisions? Do you acquire “followers?” A “strong attendance on the web,” perhaps? If you acquire the adeptness to access decisions, Ford would like to co-opt your access for business purposes…er, we mean…give you a chargeless car.
Well, accommodation you one, anyway.
The automaker’s new “Fiesta Movement” affairs takes an old auto industry abstraction – baddest a accumulation of drivers to analysis drive a new car for a while afore it hits showrooms – and turns it into a viral business campaign. Ford is searching for 100 people, called for their influence, to drive the 2010 Ford Fiesta for six months afore the car goes on auction in the U.S. According to the program’s web site, these drivers will again be appropriate to acquire “monthly abstruse assignments from Ford Mission Control,” but in exchange, will drive a Fiesta free. “Each car comes with chargeless gas, chargeless insurance, and abounding babysitter account for the continuance of the vehicle’s six ages stay.”
Interested? All you acquire to do is blur a “2-5 minute video answer why you deserve the befalling to become a disciplinarian and participate in the Fiesta Movement,’ upload it to YouTube and use the Fiesta Movement tag.
What will you be accepting in the bargain? The Fiesta is a new auto that Ford says will attempt with the Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris. The car is already on auction in Europe, area it has won acclaim from the automotive press, almost absent getting called European Car of the Year, outran a Corvette central a arcade mall, and has been acclimated as a landing ability by the Royal Marines.
Alright, those endure two are alone accurate on Top Gear, but they were fun to watch.
The Fiesta is accepted to administer about 40 mpg, and it’s allegedly fun to drive, at atomic by European standards.
When Ford appear affairs to accompany the little car to the States over the summer, gas prices were aggressive against $4 per gallon and Americans were more affairs baby cars. Now, in the bosom of a recession and with the auto industry on taxpayer-funded activity support, the alone Ford models assuming amazing sales success are…well…full-size pickups. Automobile Magazine believability out, “By November, Ford was abacus an added about-face to board appeal for its all-new 2009 Ford F-150 as gas prices confused to their everyman levels in years.” Ford doesn’t apperceive what affectionate of sales abstracts to apprehend for what will be its aboriginal U.S. offering, so the automaker is “is aggravating to accomplish appeal for the vehicle” by trading on the believability of bloggers and influence-peddlers accommodating to acquire their abstruse missions.
Let us apperceive if you adjudge to apply, and acceptable luck to you. It looks like a fun little car.
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