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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 06:23 PM
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wow this is a surprise
cheapest car in the world to sponsor Ferrari's
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/18/ferrari...th-tata-motors/

Tata Motors to sponsor Ferrari's F1 team-f2008_1_tata_580op.jpg
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 01:20 AM
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Pisses me right off this.......

Jaguar/Landrover are now scrounging to the UK governement for some cash to bail them out, IIRC Tata owns them both right ??

Yet they have money to Sponsor another car company in F1 ??? ROFL, what a joke.

Can anybody else see the irony of having a Tata badge on the front of a Ferrari ??

I was uncomfortable with a FIAT badge on the side of a Yamaha in Moto GP, but this is just getting silly now.
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 01:31 AM
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Agree...but seriously do you really think it will stick at the front like that? I doubt it very much!
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 02:08 AM
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Originally Posted by BetterMakeWay' post='748572' date='Dec 19 2008, 06:31 PM
Agree...but seriously do you really think it will stick at the front like that? I doubt it very much!
I bet they will but it will be very small like the old Fiat
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 03:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Phantom Mark' post='748564' date='Dec 19 2008, 10:20 AM
Pisses me right off this.......

Jaguar/Landrover are now scrounging to the UK governement for some cash to bail them out, IIRC Tata owns them both right ??

Yet they have money to Sponsor another car company in F1 ??? ROFL, what a joke.

Can anybody else see the irony of having a Tata badge on the front of a Ferrari ??

I was uncomfortable with a FIAT badge on the side of a Yamaha in Moto GP, but this is just getting silly now.
It just seems so wrong...
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 04:12 AM
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Go TATA Excellent marketing call form the big wigs!
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 05:54 AM
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Ferrari would sell you anything on their cars for the right money, hardly a good marketing call to buy advertising space on an F1 car which whizzes around at Mach3 if the advert is gonna be so tiny you cant see it, who watches F1 these days anyways ? Waste of money if you ask me, but thats just my opinion
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Originally Posted by Phantom Mark' post='748686' date='Dec 19 2008, 08:54 AM
Ferrari would sell you anything on their cars for the right money, hardly a good marketing call to buy advertising space on an F1 car which whizzes around at Mach3 if the advert is gonna be so tiny you cant see it, who watches F1 these days anyways ? Waste of money if you ask me, but thats just my opinion
Well, I do. I watch or go to every race I possibly can, mostly the former. Still shots of those cars in full livery are shown in newspapers and magazines everywhere. All the sudden, I want to be the first to import a Tata to the US, use only Shell Oil, go get a pack of Marlboros, buy some new Bridgestones... Seriously though, F-1 still has one of the largest viewing audiences in the world. For now, anyway. What time is it? I think I need a Foster's lager...

Or maybe a coffee:

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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Phantom Mark' post='748686' date='Dec 19 2008, 10:54 AM
Ferrari would sell you anything on their cars for the right money, hardly a good marketing call to buy advertising space on an F1 car which whizzes around at Mach3 if the advert is gonna be so tiny you cant see it, who watches F1 these days anyways ? Waste of money if you ask me, but thats just my opinion
An estimated two billion viewers watch F1; Waste of money? I don't think so buddy
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Old Dec 20, 2008 | 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Suchet' post='749280' date='Dec 20 2008, 10:14 AM
An estimated two billion viewers watch F1; Waste of money? I don't think so buddy
I agree!
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