http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m498dA1KOis
I like Ferraris. Owned a couple. In fact, I might just buy a F355B after I move to Austin. If I do, I know for damn sure the thing will break. Repeatedly. But that’s OK because A) I won’t use it as my daily driver and B) aside from some extremely ill-advised designs, a Ferrari looks hotter than Amber Leigh in chain mail. And that, ladies and gentleman, is saying something. If we were to extrapolate that to the gun world, a gun that lacks Glock-like reliability better look smokin’ hot. What I’m trying to say: comparing the ARX100 to a Ferrari F360 or a HUMMER or an unholy combination of the two doesn’t mean what the Beretta Community wants it to mean. And a HUMMER keeping up with an F360? That’s just silly. Some might say a “presto chango” caliber switching semi-automatic rifle for civilian use is equally guffaw-inducing but I couldn’t possibly comment.
So I guess this adds to Biden cliche that owning a rifle is like driving a Ferrari? Either way its a bad ad. I’ve said it here before, Beretta’s marketing and sales team has been sucking since Ben Cook left.
Trying for the world’s most interesting man and falling short is pretty stupid.
Bad…very bad
That ad is almost worse than the ARX100 looks. Maybe I just don’t get fashion, but the ARx100 is one ugly bulldog. Maybe I just like flat lines better than random chunkiness.
Why do firearm ad voice-over guys have to that artificial basso-profundo mucho-macho fake voice? I don’t relate.
PS: The Beretta needs to go on a bit of a diet–a bit bloated around the mid-section…
This gun looks like a house cat and a scar had a baby.
-D
My mother was an English aficianado, and she demanded precision from those that made a living with words. So for the journalist RF, when going from the large (Ferrari $100k) to the small (Beretta $1k) the term is not extrapolate but interpolate.
But for the gun guy RF, you’re off the hook.
Hey, just bustn’ some B.
Love your work!
Um, no.
Extrapolation is the use of existing data to make predictions about what’s outside a data set based on what’s in the set. For a numerical instance, if I give you the sequence 1, 4, 9, and ask you what the next number is, you might extrapolate that it’s 16.
Interpolation means to use existing data to make a prediction about things nominally contained within the data set’s boundaries, but with unspecified values. For instance, if I give you the sequence 1, 2, 3, x, 5, you might interpolate x as 4. (Thus unlocking your luggage).
Cheers,
John L.
From vocabulary.com:
The verb extrapolate can mean “to predict future outcomes based on known facts.”
which seems OK in this context.
F360? Common Robert, it’s most certainly an F430… did you watch the video?
I’d rather have a Lambo…not that I have the means to get either…and if I did, I’d use the money to buy some countryside and set up a private range.
For sure, Lamborgini would be my first choice, Randy
I’m not impressed by the commercial, and the gun looks hideous. It’s interesting see all these designs that “make the AR-15 obsolete,” but still seem to fall short. Other than the SCAR and the Steyr AUG, I don’t see many AR competitors that really blow my socks off.
AR15 obsolete? What world you living in?
Like the tv commercial, for the ” luxury car” that uses a Tag Heuer, as the watch they compair it to. good watch, not anyone’s grail watch , sometimes the butt of jokes by watch guys.
I can’t believe the FF made the list of ugliest Ferraris! I though it was awesome that they did shooting brake design. I had the extra money, I would have bought one!
Robert… That’s a F430… not 360! Haha
I guess that Beretta spent so much on the cars that it couldn’t afford to spend very much on the lighting.
Oh man, my friends screwed with me so bad over this thing…
Not a Beretta fan, but damn they can do so much better.
That video was . . . awful.
I think everybody’s already said that, but it’s worth repeating. Ben Cook, where are you???
Sorry I’d take Amber Leigh in chain mail over a Ferrari.
At least it’s not a bullpup.
Ferrari’s? Hummers? What is this fricking MotorTrend? Who the hell would own either, wish Fargo wouldn’t have mentioned he owned a few, a few notches down he goes.
Totaly sucked
I bought an ARX160 22lr. First I hated how it looked, then I held one, checked it out. Thought about it, bought it. Then shot it. Now I’m ready to sell my AR and get an ARX100. It is sooooo sweet.
You’re SO wrong..NOT CHAIN MAIL you poor sado…it is truly…ETHRIL! Forged by Elves of Rivendell. (Rivendale?) Has been many moon phases since I was last there and my Elven is not what it once was. But, if memory serves…the ethril I last saw wasn’t so…so…well…hilly looking. Twas worn only by fighting men but, dare I say, the fighting would cease post haste if we had battle-ettes like this fine lass exposing her…Ethril. Our foes would be dumb struck when gazing upon the craftsmanship of said material and we could slaughter them as they stand in awe…course..we would be awe struck also…hmmm…may the fighting stop as we figure out a way to mass produce this for lasses to wear as outer garments.
And thus…that’s how the clothing guilds were started and went to pot when they had to get loans from the banks. But that story…is for another time.
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