Disclaimer: we all know the Gas-Saving Tornado does absolutely nothing. I'm just AMAZED by the advertising techniques.

I just watched the infomercial for the stupid device. My God, I hate advertising. They have a plexiglas "test stand" on which they have a vacuum pump and a large-diameter intake tube, with a small set of fins mounted in the airstream.

They turn on the pump, and demonstrate that *gasp* only laminar flow exists inside the "intake tube." Then they put the Tornado device on the inlet, and *gasp* the fins start spinning. They then praise the product for its amazing ability to make the airstream turbulent.... and they quickly segue to talking about much horsepower it makes.

Sure, it makes the airflow turbulent... I'll go for that... but that has nothing to do with performance gains, or anything else. It made me sick.

One time I saw a commercial for a medicine proposed to relieve heartburn. They compared their amazing product to the humdrum Brand X product. They proudly displayed two graphs, one for each product. The graphs were three-dimensional, had no labels, no axes, and represented absolutely nothing. However, the product's graph had a HUGE RED ARROW sticking out of the origin, while Brand X's graph only had a little dinky arrow. So OBVIOUSLY anyone could see how much better the product was than Brand X!

There was a great Saturday Night Live spoof a long time that featured an everyday woman selling a painkiller, Excedril, that was not bound by scientific evidence, and therefore could cure any illness, including blindness and "the inability to fly." She went on to tell the public that used the product as a contraceptive. The best quote was: "now, I know what you're going to say, there's so scientific evidence that Excedril is an effective form of birth control. But I'm no scientist, I'm just an everyday woman -- and I think that Excedril can kill the tiny babies in my husband's semen."

God I hate marketing.

- Warren

 

Haha, I read an article in car magazine a while back, and they did dyno charts. Turns out, they actually lost power. Their test car was a BMW I think, yeah, marketing does suck, it just manipulates...

 

Marketing is like drugs......sometimes you can use them to heal people and sometimes you get people that abuse the sh*t out of them....somebody should already sued Tornado bastards and put them out of business....

 

I thought the tornado was intended to increase the length of my p@n!$

Talk about pain!

 

this goes to show, never trust what you see on tv.




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Steve2K,

I bet it didn't work there either, did it?

- Warren