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deadwolf
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PostPosted: 09:37 - 02 Oct 2015    Post subject: Yamaha using LOLCATS to advertise bikes Reply with quote
https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/yamaha-lolcats-tokyo-motor-show/

https://i1.wp.com/www.asphaltandrubber.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/yamaha-lolcats-04.jpg

You can't make this sh*t up. A tired old meme filtered through a half-baked Japanese view of the world ending up as a wacked-out marketing campaign. The only way Yamaha can redeem itself in my eyes is if they replace all their booth babes at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show with actual cats. Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:50 - 02 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
You shared it, they win.
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PostPosted: 14:58 - 02 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well. That's fun.
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PostPosted: 15:15 - 02 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
They do have past form
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/yamaha/yzf600-thundercat/1996/
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PostPosted: 00:07 - 03 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
perhaps they're courting the new generation of motorcycle gang with high vis cuts emblazoned with kittens?
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PostPosted: 23:25 - 06 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/00-grumpy-cat-22-05-13.jpg
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PostPosted: 05:12 - 07 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yamaha's marketing department has been watching BCF Shocked

'What's that thing in cat's mouth? They are waughing at it, must be wolcat!'
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PostPosted: 17:40 - 07 Oct 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Honda already make a NobCat700 range Laughing
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