{"id":408046,"date":"2010-03-09T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e201310f80a988970c"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:16:27","slug":"mini-clubman-roomy-enough-to-host-giant-rolling-highway-orgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408046","title":{"rendered":"Mini Clubman: roomy enough to host giant rolling highway orgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"205\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8px 0pt 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iVInpEAg5F8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iVInpEAg5F8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This new spot for Mini&#8217;s Clubman from Butler, Shine, Stern &amp; Partners is designed to show how roomy the car is, but it also seems to be endorsing all kinds of moving violations as well as making a claim about virility usually reserved for sports cars. In the spot, which was shot in England but features American actors (or at least, American accents), a cop pulls a Mini Clubman over and asks the driver if the car is his. &quot;Uh, no. It&#8217;s, uh, Barry&#8217;s,&quot; the gold-lam\u00e9-clad driver answers, as &#8217;70s-style disco music plays in the car. &quot;Well, where is Barry?&quot; the cop asks. What follows is an artfully shot sequence in which the car is made to seem much larger than it is, like maybe a Mini stretch limo. Barry eventually appears in tighty-whities and an open shirt. &quot;I&#8217;m Barry,&quot; he says with questionable authority. &quot;Is there a problem, officer?&quot; Voiceover: &quot;Mini Clubman. Plenty of room for &#8230; whatever.&quot; What&#8217;s clever about the ad is that it makes two claims. Yes, it shows the Clubman is roomy. But it also makes a case that middle-aged out-of-shape guys can be hosting mobile orgies, if only they buy the right car.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new spot for Mini&#8217;s Clubman from Butler, Shine, Stern &amp; Partners is designed to show how roomy the car is, but it also seems to be endorsing all kinds of moving violations as well as making a claim about virility usually reserved for sports cars. In the spot, which was shot in England but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}