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12/10/2004

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The Comedian

It's a pretty good spoof, but there's a few glaring errors that give it away.

The paragraph that begins "With children caring [sic ]guns to school" not only has a glaring grammatical error, it's of far too unprofessional a tone for a real GM website.

The second tell is the inclusion of the Hummer link. The GM brand police would never allow this sort of trademark dilution/confusion.

Oh, and the final tell, the domain name is registered to an individual person in Massachusetts.

For comparison, here's the website for BMW Security Limousines, though limousine might be bit misapplied to the 3-series.

http://www.bmw-ids.com/security.html

The Comedian

Here's a real website for a company that provides armored Cadillacs:

http://www.scaletta.com/


Tom McMahon

Wow, both sites are very interesting. Like a peak into another world. Thanks for the info and the links!

Sigivald

Comedian: In foreignvania, "limousin[e]" simply means the same as "sedan" (or "saloon"). I'm not sure what the Krauts call a long, super-luxurious car someone else drives for you, but "limousine" does not have that meaning in German.

(If I wanted an armored BMW, I'd want a 760, personally. But then my tastes run more towards Mercedes than BMW.)

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