FWIW - New TV ad recently seen with Tiger MKII within last 5 days

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Anyone else catch a glimpse of TV ad which was a spin-off of Get Smart series intro earlier this week (after Turkeyday 2019)? Sorry I didn't catch what the ad was for. Only started to register in my mind what was going on at the last moment. Thought it was an ad for Get Smart movie sequel or something.

There was a green or possibly blue MKII with double white stripes along rocker panel which comes to stop at curb. Another actor was green-screened in place of Don Adams who jumps out of car runs up stairs and thru all the same doors and phone booth all the while selling whatever the product was by substituting product info in place of actor names etc. shown on screen.
 
Ghia

TD Ameritrade ney Schwab (soon). “Getting Smarter”

Their whole vibe isn’t kind of “be reasonable and conservative with your money,” so a VW kinda makes more sense than a “real” classic ala Tiger.

(Relax Warren... I’m teasing about the VW being a lesser car...)

https://ispot.tv/a/Zbbu
 
1973

Ghia with about 53 horsepower... cheap parts, about 30 mpg and all fixable with John Muir's idiot manual, and probably fit a bigger gun in the trunk.
Still have my 64 bug convertible I bought for 900 bucks.

I'd say a big majority of Tiger owners did really well with their investment.
Here's a fun and true sales story to back that statement up.

When pitching an air cleaner at Ventura British car show. I approached a Octogenarian owner mentioned the pricing and got this response.
What 450.00 dollars that's more than I paid for the whole G.D. car! along with the I couldn't get a filter and it wouldn't flow and I threw it in the trash!
No I didn't offer him XX times what he paid for it... I said it looks great thanks anyway Sir.
 
Tiger too, or just Ghia?

So, I saw the spot with the Ghia...is there another one with a Tiger?

'Octogenarian at British Car Show' Tiger owner...there's only one of those that I know of- and he is pretty thrifty- known him since the early 70's. Great guy (and his wife as well):)
 
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I don't actually recall his age but it was up there and worthy of a respect your elders moment and the customer is always right even when wrong.
From a return on investment point the Tiger was a better pick. VW's think they are British and drop a lot of oil. The real funny part is Max drove a Karmann Ghia in the original series so apparently he didn't get get too much smarter.
 
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