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Hertz, twice cursed. (1975)
(lemmy.nz)
Ad, 1975. The low speed chase was far in the future, still.
The Pinto recall was 1978, although prior incidents led to it. The history has nuance and complexity, and important context has been lost as it was distilled into a cultural memory through the filter of time, a sound-bitey press, and more recently, a social media world that thrives on outrage.
Regardless, the ad did not age particularly well, through no real fault of Hertz's.
100% In my family he was basically Nordberg from Naked Gun. And then Nordberg killed his wife and shit stopped being funny. The whiplash between persona and person was 180° and it made people want to learn more about who OJ was as a person.