Tarmac@TarmacSportz Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Hi All, No disrespect to all the sprinkles on here, but statistically the vast majority of car modders are Male I think its safe to say. I encourage female modders so please don't take offence. I'm just interested in a bit of feedback, some websites like to use a good looking model beside a particular car or car part some don't. Obviously most of the hot blooded straight males amongst us do not mind this but do you think it's tacky or fair play. Is it something you like to see or not fussed. It's just for fun as it was an idea that was mentioned and I really hadn't given any serious thought about. Interested to see what peoples opinions are Quote
glrnet Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Couldn't give a tinkers cuss frankly. I always find it a bit tacky, almost as if the product or the idea isn't quite good enough so drape a scantily clad female over it Quote
LRF4N Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 As long as SMD isn't posing your fine mate Quote
leonk Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Just drape a thong over the product advertised, this will allude to the idea of sex and your product without the cost of expensive models or upsetting people. Any more marketing advice just pm me. :1: Quote
DoogyRev Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Does having a scantily clad young lady draped over a bumper influence my decision to purchase.... no But I don't see there is anything wrong with it. If your thinking of doing this, then you will have to do the same for female related car parts and have a chap in a thong or something. I am sure BBK will be up for a bit of modelling He might get the opportunity to speak to some nice young ladies Quote
glrnet Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Just drape a thong over the product advertised, this will allude to the idea of sex and your product without the cost of expensive models or upsetting people. Any more marketing advice just pm me. :1: I think you've found a niche in the market, thongs for alternators!!! Quote
rtbiscuit Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 depends on how its done; i think the key word is tasteful tasteful Tacky Quote
Dblock Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 It's a little max power tbh and your products aren't at the cheaper end of the market. I don't mean like your expensive but it's not Japspeed and Chinese replicas you deal in Quote
RobPhoboS Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 It's completely tacky and pointless. We're after car parts not some bint sprawled on a car. If you want to check out hot girls there are 1000000000000000000000+ dedicated websites for that (I know, I've gone though half!) I like to check up on things whilst at work, so I wouldn't check a site out if it's max powered out like that. Quote
LRF4N Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Agree with rich about tasteful vs tacky Knight racer have used it (well?) as part of their marketing. At shows everyone remembers the knight racer girls and the company name sticks in your head. When people remember the name you have to say it's successful marketing Quote
rtbiscuit Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Envy when they were running had the odd girl here and there, i always remember the girl working on the zed picture but it wasn't on every product more just on the home page. i find the EBC ads cringy, if anyones seen them in garages or in magazines, the girl holding 2 brake discs, and theres another for exhausts. both look very 80's style and pose. looks very tacky. adrian flux are using it at the moment with the flux babes, apparently all form their call centre and stripped to the 9's and possing for anything and everything. even have a flux babes calendar. it can be a useful tool, but its how you use it that makes the difference. I always cringe at car shows with the girls who think they are the hottest thing since toasted crumpets when in reality they look like this. Quote
Dblock Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 If there is that much to get wrong plus the extra expensive I'd leave it Quote
spursmaddave Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 As long as SMD isn't posing your fine mate Right I am off the weekend so I will be doing some promotions shots for Chris :1: Quote
RobPhoboS Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Does anyone remember that thread originally on the forum.bodybuilding.com (which has some incredibly stupid/funny posts) of the minger and the red honda ? Girl + car = that thread in my mind Quote
Chris`I Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Knight racer have used it (well?) as part of their marketing. At shows everyone remembers the knight racer girls and the company name sticks in your head. When people remember the name you have to say it's successful marketing Who are Knight Racer? Do they do KITT cars? Quote
DoogyRev Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Knight racer have used it (well?) as part of their marketing. At shows everyone remembers the knight racer girls and the company name sticks in your head. When people remember the name you have to say it's successful marketing Who are Knight Racer? Do they do KITT cars? No, they just do KARR's chris Quote
Chris`I Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Knight racer have used it (well?) as part of their marketing. At shows everyone remembers the knight racer girls and the company name sticks in your head. When people remember the name you have to say it's successful marketing Who are Knight Racer? Do they do KITT cars? No, they just do KARR's chris Damn I really wanted a KITT. Anyway, Chris dont lower yourself to trying to use totty to sell your products. As said above, you're not JapSpeed. No one will buy a product because of the girl, but I bet a fair few will think its either inferior quality or just not buy it on the principal of the matter. Quote
rabbitstew Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Have to say it always makes me laugh at shows when you get some model wearing next to nothing on a stall, looking bored as hell not having a clue what a manifold sprocket is. Likewise, when you see a model with big jugs standing there in a magazine holding the latest boy racer backbox for a Corsa close to her chest. Sure, i guess people notice it and look at the picture, but i really dont think someone will rush out and buy a product cos theres a pic of some bird in a bikini next to it. Quote
Dannyg Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 depends on how crap the car is or how hot the woman is, crap car + nice woman may work, Nice car + woman = woman ruining my view of the nice car Some pics ive seen ive not even noticed the woman in front of the nice car, Quote
Dannyg Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 they just get in the way! i wanna perv on the car, if i want to see a naked woman ill watch porn Quote
ioneabee Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 if i want to see a naked woman ill watch porn I'll click my fingers and tell the missus to get her kit off Quote
Tarmac@TarmacSportz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 Ha ha, Loving some of the feedback here, my first reaction when the subject was raised was "no chance, that's tacky", however that's just my opinion which isn't always the right one, that is why I wanted to see others input. Weapon R's website has a few too 1 Quote
Dannyg Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 if i want to see a naked woman ill watch porn I'll click my fingers and tell the missus to get her kit off if i want to see a naked woman ill watch porn I'll click my fingers and tell the missus to get her kit off Haha I would too but mines to busy gettin her kit off for car shoots Quote
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