{"id":1023,"date":"2014-07-16T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:33:59","slug":"zero-sixty-salesman-selling-cars-getting-snarky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Zero to Sixty: Salesman Selling Cars Getting Snarky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Wednesday, so that means Leith Cars presents another edition of Zero to Sixty. This series brings videos from around the web \u2013 Okay, so mostly YouTube \u2013 that break up the monotony of the week. Whether it is an SUV traversing daunting terrains or a sports car burning out tires in a parking lot, our goal is to give you that much needed hiatus from reality on what\u2019s known as \u201cHump Day.\u201d We want to inject a little humor into this week\u2019s selection, so it made sense to turn to a comedian.<\/p>\n<p>Acura recently renewed its contract with Jerry Seinfeld to continue the wildly popular <a href=\"http:\/\/comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com\/\"><em>Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee<\/em><\/a> web series. As part of that deal, the comedian also penned new commercials to air during each episode. In these ads, a sharp-tongued salesman dishes out odd life advice to customers who are gawking at or enthusiastically driving the all-new TLX. The theme behind the advertisements is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acura.com\/TLXLanding.aspx?ef_id&amp;gclid=CLCzlt6Fyr8CFUK9Kgod30sABQ&amp;gclsrc=ds\">Acura TLX<\/a> does not need salesmen to sell the car \u2013 it sells itself. It\u2019s up to you to \u201csell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can find the commercials, and other cool videos, on the Acura YouTube page. We provided a few examples below, but here are a few pieces of advice our semi-snarky salesman offers in some of the ads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re eating soup, bring the spoon up to your mouth. Don\u2019t drop your head down to the soup. You\u2019re not a flamingo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to move a chaise lounge by the pool, pick it up. Don\u2019t drag it across the concrete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t pop bubble wrap when people are talking. And don\u2019t walk on it either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While we can certainly comply with the first two, there\u2019s no promise that bubble wrap will not be popped if you set it in front of us. It\u2019s just too much fun, right?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and for the record, our Acura dealerships \u2013 Leith Acura in Cary and Leith Acura of Fayetteville \u2013 will receive the much lauded TLX since production of the car did begin two days ago! It\u2019s been a long journey, but we promise it\u2019ll be well worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Wednesday, so that means Leith Cars presents another edition of Zero to Sixty. This series brings videos from around the web \u2013 Okay, so mostly YouTube \u2013 that break up the monotony of the week. Whether it is an SUV traversing daunting terrains or a sports car burning out tires in a parking lot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}