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  • 2021-02-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Picture Show an Armored '2021 Dodge Ram'? (en)
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  • In February 2021, an online advertisement announced: Introducing The Head-Turning 2021 Dodge Ram. The ad featured a picture of a vehicle that would be quite the departure from previous Ram pickup truck designs. Readers who clicked the ad were led to what appeared to be affiliate links that would allow the advertisers to make money: However, this picture did not show a 2021 Dodge Ram. The real Ram for 2021 looked similar to previous years, as is seen in this picture from the official Ram website: Further, Dodge separated from Ram Trucks more than a decade ago. In reality, the ad showed the Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition from the Dartz Motorz Company. It was captured at the Top Marques Monaco auto show in April 2009: Dartz made the news in the past for purportedly featuring whale penis leather seats in its vehicles. (This was not something that we expected to learn when researching this story.) On Oct. 26, 2009, Auto Evolution reported on details for the $1.45 million bulletproof SUV: The inspiration to use whale penis for the leather seats purportedly came from Aristotle Onassis' yacht. Auto Revolution said the yacht had bar stool seats made from sperm whale foreskin. In November 2009, just weeks after Auto Evolution reported on the vehicle, Dartz apparently had a change of heart. At the time, the James Spotting blog reported that the company put out a press release. It said: Armored Car without Penis. Let's Save the Whales. The company pulled back on the idea after receiving a lot of angry e-mails from Greenpeace, WWF, and also Pamela Anderson. A rough translation of the letter was posted to the James Spotting Blog, and read, in part: According to Top Speed, the company changed its mind again in 2013 with its $1 million Black Snake vehicle: In sum, the misleading ad did not depict a 2021 Dodge Ram or a 2021 Ram at all. It showed the Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition, a vehicle from the same company that once offered whale penis leather seating. (en)
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