Four Star General (Motors)

February 20, 2004

How do you sell an enormously oversized vehicle with awful gas mileage and a price tag of 50 thousand dollars? You appeal to people's most basic fears and desires. That's according to Clotaire Rapaille, a medical anthropologist and SUV marketing consultant. He chats with Bob about GM's advertising campaign for the Hummer.


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