{"id":13387,"date":"2013-08-20T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=13387"},"modified":"2013-08-20T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:14:07","slug":"transformers-tuesday-chevrolet-swerve-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/transformers-tuesday-chevrolet-swerve-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers Tuesday: Chevrolet Swerve addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today's review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfu_swerve.php\">Chevy Aveo Swerve<\/a>, you learned that Chevrolet specifically commissioned the toy, apparently because they thought an Aveo that converts into a robot would be pretty cool. Seems no one told their Norwegian ad agency, Amsterdam Worldwide, because they made this viral ad for the Aveo:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhfob39mK2c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It's an obscure joke, but it turns out that ad is taking the piss out of this 2006 spot, for Citroen:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P4ckJFNkra8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - June '10\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-10\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - June '10<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - June '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - June '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers: Filch addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/transformers-filch-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers: Filch addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Stinkosaurus Rex &#038; exclusive Bum Sprout reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/transformers-botbots-stinkosaurus-rex-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Stinkosaurus Rex &#038; exclusive Bum Sprout reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers: Rise of the Mermaid\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/transformers-rise-of-the-mermaid\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers: Rise of the Mermaid<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today's review of the Chevy Aveo Swerve, you learned that Chevrolet specifically commissioned the toy, apparently because they thought an Aveo that converts into a robot would be pretty cool. Seems no one told their Norwegian ad agency, Amsterdam &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/transformers-tuesday-chevrolet-swerve-addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-13387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-videos","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13389,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}