jeff gordon prank in a camaro

[4 Force Fed Squirrels]

Pepsi MAX & Jeff Gordon Present: "Test Drive" - YouTube

 

[$ub$onic]

Watched this at work the other day it's freaking hilarious

 

[rondoman]

Yeah except the whole thing is fake, just one big production.

Jeff Gordon wasnt driving the car, it was a stunt driver, and that was a 2013 Camaro and the video shows an 09, which there is none.


http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/jeffgordon.asp

 

[$ub$onic]

Stop looking at the details. Its a funny commercial

 

[rondoman]

Oh it is funny and I like it a lot.

I was just slightly disappointed to find out it was fake. I will say the car salesman is a hell of an actor though!

 

[ColonelPanic]

I liked it too, very funny!

Too bad it's factually inaccurate and just downright fake. They have to try harder in these times now that we have the interwebs.

 

[rondoman]

Some details:

By early afternoon Thursday, alert car-savvy readers were emailing The Post to point out all sorts of problems with that ’09 Camaro. “Here is why it is fake,” Reader John wrote in an email. ” … 1st the car is shown as an 09 Camaro on the windshield… there was no 2009 model Camaro. 2nd, the video shows a Pepsi can in a cup holder above the radio.. there is no such cup holder on this car – it has been modified.”

Jalopnik further broke down the video as if it were modern Zapruder footage and reached the same conclusion as Reader John and others. The man who did the driving, Mark Plemmon of IndependentTribune.com writes, is Brad Noffsinger, a racer who works with the Richard Petty Driving Experience. The ad was shot at Troutman Motors in Concord, N.C., with actors playing all the roles and Troutman employees signed to confidentiality agreements. The stunt driving was done at an old Phillip Morris plant.

 

[GeneralZod]

You don't even need to fact check if it is fake. If that really happened, all parties would lawyer up a sue everyone into oblivion.

Another matter, PepsiCo lawyers would never allow it for that fact.

The guy playing the car salesman is a good actor. However, he might have been actually scared during the rides.