big-n-italian
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I am sure the pic is all over the corvette / z06 forums by now too.
Why not? Obviously no one knows who he/she is, and the person probably made a handful of cash for the pic.I would not want to be the guy that left the hood open right about now.
Well, apparently DCX is PO'ed about it and is seeking to blame me for posting it here when in fact I had nothing to do with the photo whatsoever - all I did was find it on another PUBLIC forum and post a link to it here.
I know marketing folks at dc.... they're not that smartEither:
A. Someoneat DCX just got fired for leaving the hood open.
B. Someone at DCX just got a raise for a successful free advertising campaign.
How are they blaming you and what did they say, did they send you a PM or something? They have no issue with you whatsoever and can do nothing about someone simply reposting a link to a photo on a public site. No worries.Thanks for the support guys. I felt the same way - the photo was in the public domain. I found it on both AllPar and SRTForums before posting it here. It was originally posted on some Honda forum probably as a way to keep DCX off the trail.
If you ask me, DCX should be directing their wrath at those who leaked the photo, not those of us who are amp'ed up about the new car and chomping at the bit to buy one.
I wonder if this was the vehicle in question?Either:
A. Someone at DCX just got fired for leaving the hood open.
I blame George Bush!
I agree with SylvanSRT. We got to see a crappy camera phone shot. Big freaking whoop, this isn't exactly "Vipergate"
How are they blaming you and what did they say, did they send you a PM or something? They have no issue with you whatsoever and can do nothing about someone simply reposting a link to a photo on a public site. No worries.
It seems to me that if they really wanted to find the source they could. I mean, how many people total were involved in the desert testing with the mules on those days? How often were the hoods up on the red vehicles? I'm sure that there were a few DCX/Viper upper level VIP's there that could be ruled out, a few more clues here and there (I can think of several) and the list starts to get narrower...
How are they blaming you and what did they say, did they send you a PM or something? They have no issue with you whatsoever and can do nothing about someone simply reposting a link to a photo on a public site. No worries.
It seems to me that if they really wanted to find the source they could. I mean, how many people total were involved in the desert testing with the mules on those days? How often were the hoods up on the red vehicles? I'm sure that there were a few DCX/Viper upper level VIP's there that could be ruled out, a few more clues here and there (I can think of several) and the list starts to get narrower...
It all came to me second hand. Apparently, someone at DCX called Steve Wedel and asked him to talk to our VCA region president (we're the region that ran all the info about the upcoming Viper and Viper production schedule almost a year ago - they were all kinds of pissed about that, but it was all based on info available publicly on the web). Apparently, Steve asked Marko (our president) to talk to me about the photo. When he did, the whole thing sort of pissed me off as I did nothing wrong and here I've got our president supposedly speaking for the national president telling me not to post threads like this anywhere on the internet. Well, I don't work for or answer to our region president so that statement came off sort of offensive and I told him so. If I feel like posting something, I'll post it.
Again, since this is all second hand, I really don't know what Steve Wedel told Marko or what DCX told Steve and certainly, Marko may have been twisting the facts to get me to do what he wants. The bottom line is that I did nothing wrong and if I hadn't posted that pic here, someone else would have as by the time I posted it, it was already on three or four other public sites.
If they're that butt-hurt about it, DCX needs to stop blaming the messenger and find their employee that's actually leaking the info.
BTW: isn't it interesting that DCX did not have the VCA pull the thread about the video of the test Vipers, but they did insist the engine pic thread be deleted? I suspect even more strongly now that the video of the test Vipers was purposely leaked by DCX.
Careful, or they'll lock out your sig too.Wow. My post was edited to some smiley waving it's finger when it simply directed folks who wanted to see the photo to the "Other Site".
Why?