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16-03-09, 09:55 PM
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Marketing blunder
http://www.mvagusta.com/_vti_g2_ver.aspx?IdVer=147
I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall in the meeting that decided what to call this bike. To much vino i think. |
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16-03-09, 09:58 PM
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Re: Marketing blunder
Could have been worse, could have called it Gladius...
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16-03-09, 09:59 PM
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Re: Marketing blunder
easy to find though...............come out and shout "where's ........"
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16-03-09, 10:07 PM
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Re: Marketing blunder
Good god, i hope it means something in some other language, Gladius is bad, but that is just plain...errrrr...... Burtal to the poor wee bike!
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16-03-09, 10:09 PM
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Re: Marketing blunder
Stupid name, but what a sexy machine
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16-03-09, 10:09 PM
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Re: Marketing blunder
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no they got one called this instead http://www.mvagusta.com/_vti_g2_ver.aspx?IdVer=14 its a gladioli
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16-03-09, 10:10 PM
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Re: Marketing blunder
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Close!!!!! http://www.mvagusta.com/_vti_g2_ver.aspx?IdVer=14
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17-03-09, 10:57 AM
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Re: Marketing blunder
"Wally, headquartered at Montecarlo, is the worldwide leader in the construction of composite hull cruise yachts that unite cutting-edge technology, design, innovation, performance and style."
They don't appear to have been held back by the name all that much. Perhaps it's one of those things where if you have to ask, then it's not for you. |
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