Volkswagen's offensive commercial

I heard about this on the radio last night. An advertisement for the Volkswagen Polo, mainly for British sales, that shows a terrorist attempting to blow himself up near a cafe, but the car is supposedly so steely built that it withstands the bomb and just the terrorist is disintegrated.

Well sorry to say, but it isn't funny, and I can understand why this drew outrage, causing them to withdraw the commercial. The car company that began as part of the nazi regime, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were a governmentdictatorship-backed company when it began (and Ferdinand Porsche himself was a nazi collaborator who later got deservedly imprisoned), has sunk to a new low. I always thought their cars and trucks were some of the ugliest I'd ever seen, not the least being their first junkpile, the "Beetle". And we thought the Audi A3 commercial was bad!

This calls for a boycott, I'd say. To my knowledge, Renault may return to selling cars in the US, and if they do, that could be the best alternative to VW's cheap, crappy cars and trucks.

Via Eriteatteri.

Update: of course, my preferred vehicle maker would be Citroen, and car of choice would have to be the C6 luxury car. Now isn't that a masterpiece?