April 2008
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Annual auto roundup

Bare-bones offer

This mailing informed a Nevada reader he'd won a computer or TV set he could claim at a Mazda-Kia dealership. How this relates to the "X-Ray Image" of the grinning skeleton is anyone's guess.

Junk mail from a Mazda-Kia dealership



Instantly American

This direction, from a "2008 Impala Pre-Delivery Inspection Form" for car dealers, caught the eye of someone who works at a GM dealership.

2008 Impala Pre-Delivery Inspection Form from a GM dealership



Well, yes.

Public notice ad



Thanks for the heads-up

Auto ad - no vehicle is safe



Wrong on two counts

What we said was that reliability had slipped in redesigned versions of those vehicles; overall, Toyotas are reliable. And if Japan is communist, it's news to us.

Misleading Ford ad about Toyotas and Japan



I meant to stop, honest!

The makers of Glass Treatment, designed to repel rain on windshields, might want to rethink this claim.

Glass treatment package



Mean streets

Yup, we've heard about those incidents. This angry vehicle was offered by a Sacramento dealer.

A car dealers misspelled Landrover ad