I somehow managed to hit the total opposite of both choices in the polls that I was going for. :smack:
I am a woman, and I would take the car.
There’s a really cool Hungry Howie’s Van that I’ve seen tooling around with a pretty slick full body logo with that new vehicle wrap decal system. It’s more like a work of art than an advertisement> I’d drive it, and I’d probably rather that people assume I am a Pizza Boy. Stay generic and incognito.
I think it’s really the manager’s vehicle and not a delivery vehicle.
Does “family friendly” mean “purely commercial”? Or is there a chance of politically based advertising as well? Or in other words, I don’t want to be a driving billboard for either the ACLU or the NRA. Much less “Bob Smith for Governor”
But Coca Cola? Sure. Free car.
“Family friendly” doesn’t, but “corporate” pretty much does.
Hell yes. a car is a way to go from point A to point B . A free one will get there more cheaply than me having to pay for one.
I said yes, because hey, free car.
I am poor. I would accept the car even if it was stickered bumper to bumper with pro-fundamentalist propaganda.
Absobloodylutely. The logos are only on the outside of the car, yes? Means I don’t have to actually look at them while I’m driving, and it would make the care dead-easy to find in the parking lot too.
Sign me up! 
My current car is paid for and there are things/companies/organizations I wouldn’t want to work for, so no. Female.
If I were an habitual McDonald’s customer, and I ended up with a car that had a prominent Burger King sticker, is the joke on them when this car is seen (photographed, whatever) in the McD’s drive-through?
Given all the responses from people who first want to see what they’d be advertising, I think it’d be interesting (though directly against the OP) to allow the prospect to see the logos, in exchange for the agreement that, if the car is accepted by the prospect, that the prospect support (or at least not counter in public) the companies, products, or services represented by those logos. Like the Pepsi truck driver supposedly photographed drinking Coke.
Hell yes I would.
I use my car to get me to a from where I am going. The one I have right now has paint peeling all over.
A car is a car, I’d take it.
You do have to look at it unless you can’t see your hood when you drive. Are you one of those short drivers that people see as eyes and a little hair sticking above the dash?
This was actually possible at one time, it might still be. I recall several years back signing up on two different websites for the opportunity to drive a wrapped car for a year. There was a very long application, wanting to know where I lived, if I had a garage, how many miles I drove each week/month/year, where I drove, where I parked, how willing I’d be to change my habits and so on. I had an old and somewhat battered car at the time and I was thinking hey, score, free car.
In retrospect, it would’ve been a horrible idea. As someone mentioned, you can’t very well take a Burger King car through the McD’s drive-thru. And there are definitely companies whose corporate misbehavior or policies aren’t tolerable to me which I would be embarrassed to advertise with a shopping bag, let alone on a car I was contractually obligated to drive around and make highly visible for a full year.
Fortunately, neither company ever contacted me for a secondary interview, so I was saved from my rash initial excitement.
So my answer is an unreserved no.
For everyone who said yes: would the extra car insurance not be a problem for you?
I said no, but having a new car wouldn’t raise my car insurance. Car insurance rates in Spain are marked by driver characteristics and by car make/model groups, but not by car year. A car “similar to what I drive” would have the same insurance rates.
I don’t give a rat’s a$$ what my vehicle looks like, as long as it’s reliable. If it turned out to be a foreign car, I’d be bothered, but I’d maintain the deal.
So, you’d get rid of the old one, or take it off insurance while you had the free one?
Here the liability insurance would not be more, but if you got collision it would be much, much more.
I just figure that the extra car insurance would still be less then a car payment + current insurance. If I had this car, then I would probably sell, or at least minimally insure and make non-operational, the other one. Quite frankly, I would also probably be saving money on maintenance, as well, so I am not sure how that would factor in.
I actually saw this done, for real, about 8 years ago, or so, by several companies in my area. This was done by an ad agency who did this advertizing for local businesses. Its actually a good idea, even though the idea is a very old idea, it is not a new idea.
I dont know if they still do it, but I havent seen any advertising that they still do it, so I would guess they stopped doing it around my geo area.
As I recall, it was a free car for only for 1 year, not 3, and the advertising was not that bad, gawdy to be sure, but not vulgar nor profane. There also was a daily or weekly mileage requirement, no parking in your garage, you have to park on the street, and no, you could not paint over it even temporarily.
I probably would have done it if I hadnt waited so long, it is a free brand new car, and it is cheap advertising for the business.
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