This is perhaps a little off-topic but funny enough to share as it does pertain to off-roading :
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The regulator barred two ads, first released in a 2020 campaign: a poster and a video shown on social media, where dozens of Toyota Hilux cars drive across off-road terrain, including a river, while a voiceover describes the scene as “one of nature’s true spectacles”. The vehicles then join a road and drive through an urban area, before a lone car enters a driveway, with the voiceover continuing: “Toyota Hilux. Born to roam.” The poster shows two SUVs in the foreground, followed by a swarm of others traversing a rocky terrain over a cloud of dust.
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Veronica Wignall, a co-director at Adfree Cities, said: “These adverts epitomise Toyota’s total disregard for nature and the climate, by featuring enormous, highly polluting vehicles driving at speed through rivers and wild grasslands.”".
www.theguardian.com
The shock and horror of it all ! Driving off pavement and raising a cloud of dust ! How could Toyota be so irresponsible
Hopefully these people never see some-one like @boogielander ripping through the desert in his Rebel and "raising a cloud of dust", I think they might just roll over and faint at the sight of it !
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The regulator barred two ads, first released in a 2020 campaign: a poster and a video shown on social media, where dozens of Toyota Hilux cars drive across off-road terrain, including a river, while a voiceover describes the scene as “one of nature’s true spectacles”. The vehicles then join a road and drive through an urban area, before a lone car enters a driveway, with the voiceover continuing: “Toyota Hilux. Born to roam.” The poster shows two SUVs in the foreground, followed by a swarm of others traversing a rocky terrain over a cloud of dust.
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Veronica Wignall, a co-director at Adfree Cities, said: “These adverts epitomise Toyota’s total disregard for nature and the climate, by featuring enormous, highly polluting vehicles driving at speed through rivers and wild grasslands.”".
Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds
Advertising Standards Authority says Hilux poster and video condone driving that disregards ‘impact on nature’
The shock and horror of it all ! Driving off pavement and raising a cloud of dust ! How could Toyota be so irresponsible
Hopefully these people never see some-one like @boogielander ripping through the desert in his Rebel and "raising a cloud of dust", I think they might just roll over and faint at the sight of it !
