Wi-Fi Flowers For Prius and Eli Manning Buys A Toyota
Jason Lancaster | Sep 21, 2009 | Comments 13
Here are a couple of odd pieces of Toyota news:
1. WiFi Flowers. Toyota is sponsoring an art project that will place giant flowers in public spaces around the USA. The flowers look kind of cool, but what makes them really interesting is that they contain wireless routers for free public wi-fi and a handful of power outlets. Seems like a smart way to publicize the 2010 Prius on the cheap. Good idea.
Wi-Fi flowers will promote the Prius nationwide.
You can check out CNET.com for the whole scope.
While we’re talking about cool giveaways, how about parking Tundras at hardware stores and giving away free tape measures or bubble levels or something? Might be a good way to make some inroads with pickup truck owners who might not otherwise consider the Tundra.
2. Eli Manning buys a new Toyota.
They’ve even got video of it – check it out.
This one might make you chuckle:
Son of a!
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love the vids!!! #2 made me ROFL!
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Nice way to pick up free wi-fi, but I really cannot stand the prius commercial with all the flowers and smurf/barney like animation going on. Makes me want to puck in a prius. I know it is not the most manly car out there, but the ‘green’ way Toyota is advertising it with fluffy cartoonish advertising is wimpy.
Toyota *did* park a Tundra at WorldSkills 2009 in Calgary and gave away marketing material plus a cap or gloves, which is probably the same stuff you get when you buy a Tundra. Then again their regional offices were also in Calgary, which may or may not have influenced participation.
I’m not much on the wifi thing, but the wife has the laptop and the Prius which she loves dearly. Just today she was getting over 60 miles per gallon. I don’t particularly care for driving it because it’s to small for me. I did tell the wife I liked the 2010 models with the solar panel on top. I know those panels have to be expensive. But knowing the car can be used as a generator when a Hurricane hits to me it seems to be the perfect thing to have in an emergency. As for the commercials of the prius I just don’t care to watched them. Now the Tundra commercials are something else.
Toyota’s commercials have always been irritating and I used to vow I’d never buy one because it drove me nuts. Who remembers the ones where people used to jump around shouting, “A little bit of Camry in my life….a little bit of Corlla in my life…a little bit of Tundra in my life?” Never say never. I don’t like the Prius one bit but the Wi-Fi flowers are cool.
My wife even hates the Prius commercials. Of course we have decided we are brown, not green anyway. They are missing the mark for a lot of us, but judging from the amount of play the “green thing” is getting, I imagine they are hitting the nail on the head for lot of other folks.
Oh I *HATE* those damn Prius commercials. Makes me want to burn down my local Toyota store…but then I remember they’re not advertising to me. So I relax and realize I shouldn’t listen to the voices in my head…LOL.
Trent310 – Good to know. I saw some cool marketing materials back in 2007, but I’d like to see Toyota keep talking about this truck and marketing it like it’s hot. The quality is excellent, the power is incredible, and the resale value is industry best – if people aren’t buying Tundras, it’s because Toyota isn’t doing enough to market them.
Do you really think Eli bought one or was given one?? If people aren
DAS4C – When he won the Super Bowl, the NY Post said he was driving a Sequoia – http://www.nypost.com/pagesixm.....iant+Rides
I arrest my case!
How about rest your case….
LOL – Fun with vocab. Here’s how we’d use those words in a sentence: “I got *arrested* and had to fight a court case. The DA said ‘I rest my case’ and I had to do community service. Bummer.”