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Lance Armstrong’s New Nissan Leaf Commercial
Another exclusive for www.leafowner.com, just in time for the Tour De France, Lance Armstrong's newest Nissan Leaf Commercial, 20 years of the Tail Pipe! Best of luck to Lance and Team RadioShack at the Tour!
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Enjoy your new ride Lance!!
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October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Thanks Lance for supporting American car companies in this tough economy and with unemployment. Thanks for supporting a foriegn car brand, you may have forgotten how America backed you. It takes precious metals to make the batteries that have to be mined its called strip mining. When the batteries die we have no way to properly recycle them, we plug it in to burn more coals and fuel so people can drive an electric car while we are being told to conserve electricity, get a clue people.
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@christoc oh didn’t know that
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@crguy500 for some reason youtube won’t let me add a link, but last week autoblog had a post about Bigfoot going the way of Chevy for the All Star Game tonight
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@crguy500 yes, but check out autoblog
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@christoc ford has bigfoot
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Now Detroit– Decouple from BigPeak Oil — And Thrive Once Again.
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@nezj89 chevy has bigfoot
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
great, theres no winning. nissans got lance armstrong, who does chevy have huh?
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Love it. Tailpipes suck!
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Great ad. Chevy Volt still has a tail pipe.
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Now, I don’t much like Lance. I would never get a Nissan. But this is one of my all time favorite commercials. So darned true!!
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@DanFrederiksen They can get about the same mpg as the Prius but doesn’t have all the harmful materials as the batteries do and due to the natural lubrication qualities of diesel engines they will last much longer (currently driving a 240d with 300k) which is a win for me.
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@itsmeee303 I understand what you mean and I’m not entirely unimpressed with the polo but it’s not a transitional engine and they market it as super green in USA which it is not and it is in order to avoid the actual transition step of range extended battery electric drive.
gradual improvements to the fossil fuel burning soft heavy steel cars is what they want to continue doing but that will only continue to make global warming worse and speed us into the impending peak oil super crisis
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
@DanFrederiksen Clean Diesel is how they attempt to market the new generation of diesels that lack a majority of the particulate matter that made yesterdays diesels unpopular. Obviously no fossil fuel engine is clean but they are a fairly spectacular transitional engine. In a regular sedan they can achieve 60+mpg and in particular models like the VW Polo you see numbers approaching 80mpg. So no they aren’t clean but imo they are a step forward.
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
yeah, there is no such thing as ‘clean diesel’. Audi are piece of shit liars. whole volkswagen group for that matter.
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Brilliant
October 22nd, 2010 - 17:19
Nice commercial. It would have been REALLY cool if RadioShack used the Leaf as a team car during races. But alas the Leaf’s range is only 100 miles. Maybe when Nissan develops a battery enough to reach at least 300 km in one charge.