[roundtail]

I just received a marketing email from Porsche announcing an alliance between Porsche and Lucasfilm to create an "iconic starship design".

Say what?

"For decades, it seemed like Porsche and Star Wars influenced each other from afar."

Uh, no. It didn't. Unless one thinks racing and moving cameras past big models really, really close is somehow related.

Then I saw the Taycan ad at the bottom and it all added up: shameless movie plug, like a can of Coke on the table of a scene in a crime drama.

I doubt this is the company that Ferry built, and is rapidly moving away from the "small, lightweight, yet highly efficient sports cars" the email claims were its genesis.

Sigh.

 

[cbarra]

I also found that email very odd.

 

[antennahead]

I just received a marketing email from Porsche announcing an alliance between Porsche and Lucasfilm to create an "iconic starship design".

Say what?

"For decades, it seemed like Porsche and Star Wars influenced each other from afar."

Uh, no. It didn't. Unless one thinks racing and moving cameras past big models really, really close is somehow related.

Then I saw the Taycan ad at the bottom and it all added up: shameless movie plug, like a can of Coke on the table of a scene in a crime drama.

I doubt this is the company that Ferry built, and is rapidly moving away from the "small, lightweight, yet highly efficient sports cars" the email claims were its genesis.

Sigh.

Sounds like something BMW would do

 

[antennahead]

I also found that email very odd.

As did I.

 

[CaymanMatt]

Some marketing bozo probably convinced them that it would be good brand recognition!?

 

[718Niko]

hmmmmm

The Star Wars Speedster and the Porsches Speedster... ?

The white Taycan does looks a bit like a Stormtrooper


... still, not great for Porsche to be associated in any way with Star Wars these days, those last movies were so bad. so baaad.

 

[roundtail]

hmmmmm

The Star Wars Speedster and the Porsches Speedster... ?

The white Taycan does looks a bit like a Stormtrooper


... still, not great for Porsche to be associated in any way with Star Wars these days, those last movies were so bad. so baaad.

Young Skywalker to make his getaway with young Solo in the Millennial Taycan ?

 

[Treemagnet]

Young Skywalker to make his getaway with young Solo in the Millennial Taycan ?

Only after Illya Kuryakin’s 718 GTS swoops in to provide a diversion...where would the world be without the ICE!?!

 

[jimmuller]

Only after Illya Kuryakin’s 718 GTS swoops in to provide a diversion...where would the world be without the ICE!?!

Wow, that's a reference from a previous millennium!

 

[Westcoaster]

Wow, that's a reference from a previous millennium!

And yet there are those of us who remember... seems like only yesterday! ?

 

[Naptown]

I deleted it.

 

[Treemagnet]

And yet there are those of us who remember... seems like only yesterday! ?

I'll bet there are many who recall Robert Vaughn as the original young "Solo."

 

[DriveInHouston]

Napoleon, not Han...

 

[Naptown]

Old "Man from UNCLE episodes still entertain.

 

[DriveInHouston]

I always marvel when I see 'Ilya Kuriakin' playing the coroner in NCIS episodes... and there are a lot of them!